Remotest place you have been

Ubbquittious

I'm obsessed with remote places. Someday I hope to have my own TV show where I'd be showcasing very remote locations in the world where I'd claim to be camping out but in fact I'd be sleeping in a luxury prefab hotel-style accommodation with complete with jaccuzi, king size bed, minimalist modern bathroom and fully stocked drinks cabinet which would be set up at huge expense before my arrival. The film crew would film me pretending to drink my own piddle inside in my tent to stay warm before retreating to my luxury accommodation to chill and smoke dope with my film crew buddies while a few shipping container-sized diesel generators hum away in the background.

So far I reckon the remotest place I've been is the shortcut road from Egilsstaðir to Hofn. Not a sinner or a house to be seen for absolutely miles and signs up before you enter the road reminding you of the exorbitant cost of being rescued here if you break down.

Specialun

Mayo

seachto7

Denmark, WA. Remote compared to everywhere else!

Lorelli!

Craggy Island

Nettle Soup

Jungle of Papua New Guinea.
Port Moresby was a hoot too.

ILikeBoats

Somewhere in the middle of Ukraine

Remote Western Australia, Northern Territories

Jungle in the middle of Sri Lanka

Offaly

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Six weeks on Spitsbergen with just two other people and a month at McMurdo Station Antarctica. Kamiali Biological Station, Papua New Guinea is fairly remote too.

Alun

I've been in a wilderness, there was even a nice sign to let me know it was a wilderness

jester77

Rented a remote cabin somewhere in north Finland beside a lake, nearest shop was a 40 minute drive. You didn't want to forget the milk! Was damn awesome sitting out by the lake and watching the sun come down close to the horizon and go back up again.

The_Valeyard

Southern Congo.

alchemist33

Stewart Highway in the Northern Territory, Australia. No habitations for hundreds of miles.

Gravelly

Gianni Substantial Key wrote: »

Six weeks on Spitsbergen with just two other people and a month at McMurdo Station Antarctica. Kamiali Biological Station, Papua New Guinea is fairly remote too.

I think it's probably safe to close the thread now.

Ubbquittious

Gravelly wrote: »

I think it's probably safe to close the thread now.

I'm still waiting for someone to post a convincing story claiming to have been to Bouvet Island

The_Valeyard

Gianni Substantial Key wrote: »

Six weeks on Spitsbergen with just two other people and a month at McMurdo Station Antarctica. Kamiali Biological Station, Papua New Guinea is fairly remote too.

Were you exiled or something?

Gravelly

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I'm still waiting for someone to post a convincing story claiming to have been to Bouvet Island

Did I not tell you about the time I followed a mermaid to Bouvet Island where we lived on unicorn piss and dragon eggs before being rescued by Elvis?

AnthonyCny

Tory Island.

Specialun

Specialun wrote: »

Mayo

Here you go...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283008860_Slieve_Carr_-_Ireland%27s_most_remote_summit

Birneybau

El Chalten, Argentina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chalt%C3%A9n

Canis Lupus

Around West Africa on a bicycle. The road through the Sahara from Morocco to Mauritania would probably be my longest stint somewhere remote.

keano_afc

Drove across a big chunk of Canada a few years ago. Some pretty remote places. Spent a couple of days in northern Thailand up at the Laos border too. Different world altogether.

Ubbquittious

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Around West Africa on a bicycle. The road through the Sahara from Morocco to Mauritania would probably be my longest stint somewhere remote.

Much traffic there? How many white Toyota hiluxes with machine guns on the back did you see?

goose2005

alchemist33 wrote: »

Stewart Highway in the Northern Territory, Australia. No habitations for hundreds of miles.

Do you mean the Stuart Highway, or the Sturt Highway - both very different, don't get them confused!

magentis

Leitrim.

uch

Dursey Island, by cable car with a hole in the floor

Mrs OBumble

Jackon's Bay. As far down the west coast of NZ as the road goes. Feckin' sandfly central, I didn't stay long.

Canis Lupus

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Much traffic there? How many white Toyota hiluxes with machine guns on the back did you see?

Lots of normal traffic being a main road between two countries. No nasty stuff for me. I met this fella though and his mate and spent time with them in Mauritania before he got kidnapped in Mali.

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/africa/2017/06/27/al-qaeda-hostage-johan-gustafsson-released.html

Cee-Jay-Cee

I've been to the far end of Leitrim, it was a long arduous journey by foot as their are no roads or even lanes. We abandoned our 4x4 in Sligo right on the cusp of Leitrim and trekked for 3 hrs to get their. It was such a strange place, there is nothing there, no tree's or animals or anything. We thought we seen human life but we were mistaken and it was just a lonely Leitrimer on the way to Cavan to get milk for the tae.

I've also been 350kms west of Ayers Rock/Uluru in the Gibson Desert where there literally is absolutely nothing but road and desert. It is a remarkable place!

corner of hells

Baldonnel air base.It even snowed there.

Arghus

Belmullet.

spiggotpaddy

Bests menswear in northside shopping centre.
A barren desolate vacuum of mohair, tweed and timeliness.

Unpossible

Nordkapp

hairyslug

The closest thing to remote would be Blacksod bay which is a piss-poor attempt compared to some replies here

2forjoy

I drove to Lettermullen in Co Galway. Now thats remote.

Gravelly

I got lost and ended up in Louth once, but I don't like to talk about it.

uch

uch wrote: »

Dursey Island, by cable car with a hole in the floor

If you walk to the far end of the island, it's like the edge of the world.

Barry Badrinath

Goz Beida in south east Chad, mud hut central near the Chad/Sudan border.

Voinjama or ZorZor near the Liberia/Guinea border.

Not a Supermacs to be seen anywhere.

Badly Drunk Boy

Somebody, I think jokingly said 'Mayo', but Mayo in the bleak winter can seem like...something else. The first place to come to mind when I saw the thread title was Iceland, but Iceland's remoteness is the reason for going there.

magentis

hairyslug wrote: »

The closest thing to remote would be Blacksod bay which is a piss-poor attempt compared to some replies here

I know.Blacksod bay is like time square compared to Leitrim.

BopNiblets

Raratonga in Cook Islands, was a stop on one of those round the world trip years ago.
I guess Tahiti too but that was only the airport.

Poochie05

Denali National Park Alaska

Poochie05

BopNiblets wrote: »

Raratonga in Cook Islands, was a stop on one of those round the world trip years ago.
I guess Tahiti too but that was only the airport.

I hear it's a magical place

About 90 miles north of Yamoussoukro at the northern tip of Lake Kossou, though I've been in other remote places in Africa that struck me as the most isolated.

endofrainbow

Gander, Newfoundland and Nobber, Co. Meath.

dusty207

Darjeeling in the Himalayas. Pretty remote but on a tea estate on top of a mountain I met an assistant manager who had a brother teaching in a Dublin school who taught the brother of my bosses wife. Feckin' small world isn't in it.

dusty207

dusty207 wrote: »

Darjeeling in the Himalayas. Pretty remote but on a tea estate on top of a mountain I met an assistant manager who had a brother teaching in a Dublin school who taught the brother of my bosses wife. Feckin' small world isn't in it.

My auntie recently sent me some tea she'd bought from a Darjeeling plantation, another visitor there was another British woman who had just moved into a house about five streets away from hers.

Capt'n Midnight

BopNiblets wrote: »

Raratonga in Cook Islands, was a stop on one of those round the world trip years ago.

I saw a film about that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Shore

LirW

Ushguli in Georgia. Absolutely stunning place and a pain to get to.

mzungu

Desert in northern Sudan.

Nomis21

Addu atoll in the Maldives in 1970's before it became a resort. Took 8 days in a fishing boat to get there and no electricity, phone or any way of getting back until a fisherman felt like taking me a few weeks later

Ubbquittious

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Goz Beida in south east Chad, mud hut central near the Chad/Sudan border.

Voinjama or ZorZor near the Liberia/Guinea border.

Not a Supermacs to be seen anywhere.

Were you wishing for a supermacs?

Pity so many of these places have become unvisitable due to Al Qaeda kidnappings

The Backwards Man

When you're as far out as Fanad lighthouse you're well out.