Many islands far from the continents should fire the imaginations of adventurers or explorers nowadays.
Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha, the southernmost inhabited(有人居住的) island of the British territory (领土) in the southern Atlantic, is located approximately 2,100 km south of the nearest inhabited land, with a coastline of 34 km and a cloud-covered volcanic cone.
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen, Norway's largest island, about 950 km north of the European coast, is covered in snow and ice, with a sizable population of polar bears. Its main settlement, Longyearbyen, sits less than 3.2 km away from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a secure facility intended to safeguard the seeds of the world's food plants in case of a global disaster.
Pitcairn Island
This small volcanic island, the only inhabited island of the British overseas territory of four islands in the South Pacific, is probably best known as the settlement for the mutineers (叛变者) of the British ship HMS Bounty in 1790. It's also near one of the world's largest marine reserves.
South Georgia
South Georgia, part of the British overseas territory in the south Atlantic, is about 4,790 km west of Cape Town, South Africa. Large quantities of animal life there and around have invited a small number of scientists as the island's few inhabitants. It's best known as the final site of the arduous journey made by British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who first crossed South Georgia Island in 1916.