Earth's most remote island has no permanent human residents

Bouvet Island, a Norwegian dependency in the South Atlantic, sits about 1,700 km from the nearest land, Antarctica's Queen Maud Land, and roughly 2,260 km from the nearest inhabited place, Tristan da Cunha. Nearly all of its 49 square km lie buried under glacial ice, visited only by automated research equipment and occasional scientific expeditions.

— Standard geographic accounts, Bouvet Island — Norwegian dependency, South Atlantic Ocean