Remember the movie Castaway? A guy gets stranded on an island for four years guess what that can
happen for real I'm gonna show you where today we're looking at islands that don't and possibly
have never had any permanent residents there are 900 000 Islands globally and only around
16 000 are inhabited that means there's 884 000 islands that are void of homo sapiens that also
means there's about eight hundred thousand places that don't have Starbucks I know scary right a
lot of those islands are just small rock islands that couldn't support life past maybe birds and
insects today I'm going to show you 10 islands that probably could have people but don't got
it get it good let's take a look number 10 rat Island the Aleutian Islands Alaska now this one
is known as rat Island but it has another name hawardax Island this island was formerly known
as rat Island until 2012 when they changed it to Hawa Dax it got the name rat Island when a
Russian ship which was sailing around the world came across the island when they landed they found
nothing but rats there was rats everywhere the entire Island was infested so they just marked it
down as rat Island and moved on with their lives you're probably wondering how the rats got to this
island I mean it's out in the middle of nowhere it's an invasive species oddly enough they know
how the rats got there it was a Japanese shipwreck sometime around 1780. they got off the boat when
it started going down I guess they swam to the island and started breeding and that Island stayed
infested all those years until 2007. the United States fish and wildlife service decided it was
time to get rid of the rats so their first plan was to airdrop a bunch of that poison for the most
part now they expected to have some non-targeted mortality as they call it but that exceeded their
predictions I guess a whole bunch of birds got a hold of the rat poison that included 46 bald
eagle exceeding what they thought the island had they thought the island only had 22 but 46 showed
up dead when they went back to the island well it sort of worked I mean the bird population kind of
came back to normal the bald eagles never showed back up but in 2009 the island was declared rat
free for the first time in 229 years there's never been any permanent settlements on this island
number nine okanoshima Island Japan okanoshima island is about a 15-minute ferry ride from the
Hiroshima region of Japan this island doesn't have any towns or any permanent residents I
mean other than the rabbit infestation they have this island in World War II was home to a chemical
weapon manufacturing plant they made poison gas here and now it's got a bunch of bunnies yeah
tourists go there because of the bunnies the entire island is infested with bunnies now no
one knows for sure how the bunnies got there and there's a lot of theories the most common theory
is they are descendants from test bunnies they had for the poisonous gas back in World War II
I saw a couple interviews like they have a museum there and the interviewer was talking to the guy
that's the head of the museum and he said no that's a false rumor it had something to do
with an elementary school that was there way back when and that's how they got there the island is
right there on the Inland Sea of Japan there's a whole bunch of islands around there but like
I said a lot of tourists go there to interact with the bunnies and that's perfectly fine it
is forbidden to hunt or harm the bunnies what I found interesting is they didn't even know the
history of it I mean I'm sure Japan did they were making the chemical weapons but the whole story of
the island wasn't really let out until 1988 kept a secret if you do decide to go there keep in mind
they have restricted areas on the island for good reason I mean they tested chemical weapons here
number eight Devon Island Canada Devon island is in Baffin Bay not too far from Greenland
it's closer to Greenland than any populated part of Canada and this place is uninhabited and for
good reason it looks like Mars really it looks like the surface of Mars if Mars had some snow
and polar bears they'll eat you just for standing there that's the thing about polar bears I hate
they don't need a reason to attack you they just will funny how they're like that I mean they look
so cuddly Devon island has an area of 21 000 square miles it's also the 27th largest island
in the world it's actually just a little bit smaller than Croatia they did have a very small
settlement until the 1950s when the last resident left now it's funny I say that it looks like Mars
they've actually had scientists set up like a base camp there to simulate what it's like to
live on Mars yeah but they haven't had any permanent residents there for like 70 years
number seven Cocos Island Costa Rica Cocos Island is located about 320 miles west of Costa Rica in
the middle of the Pacific Ocean this is a place you just can't show up and visit you actually have
to get permission to be a tourist here or some kind of scientist to do some kind of exploration
Costa Rica has Park Rangers which maintain this place and there's not much to maintain they just
leave it alone besides the travel hurdles you got to get through to get to this island it has
no place where you could really park a boat for any amount of time there's no sheltered Harbors
or anything you're exposed to the open ocean and if you've ever been on a boat sitting still in
the middle of the Pacific Ocean it can get a little rough the jungle is thick and it's got
some pretty sheer Cliffs here too so it's hard to get around there's no real paths or anything like
that they've had treasure Hunters go there looking for Pirate Treasure it's popular for divers who
go offshore there's plenty of sharks and reefs it's pretty interesting place and I think that's
because it's untouched they've got a lot of of Flora and Fauna there that you'll only find on
Cocos Island because it's never been attached to the mainland yeah this is one of those places that
has all kinds of stories about pirate treasure buried on this island someplace now they have no
permanent residence here but on occasion Costa Rican Park Rangers will live on the island but
there's no towns no cities have ever been put here they don't even have a dock number six tetapare
island the Solomon island chain tits barley is the largest uninhabited island in the South
Pacific up until a few centuries ago tetapari had residents they had a few Villages sprinkled
around the island and then for some unknown reason they picked up and left the island 200
years ago the descendants of tetpari now live on different Islands but this one's just been
abandoned since before the American Civil War the Solomon Islands have decided to keep this kind of
in its natural state therefore if you want to be a tourist you have to get the okay tetapare
is also a sanctuary for the dugong if you don't know what a dugong is it is like a manatee it's
a relative of theirs it's smaller they get up to about 550 to 650 pounds where Manatee gets
up to about 1200 pounds they estimate there's only about 200 to 250 dugongs left in the world
number five the Phoenix Islands the Phoenix Islands are a group of eight eight holes and some
submerged coral reefs sitting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and they are officially part of the
Republic of Kiribati the Phoenix Islands protected area was established in 2008 and it's one of the
world's largest protected areas all but one of these eight islands is uninhabited on Canton
Island there's a few families who still live there the islands are Canton Island Ender Berry Island
Bernie Island McKean Island Phoenix Island which is also known as rawwaki Sydney Island which is
also known as manra Island and whole island which is also known as Orana Island the other
one is Nico Maru formerly known as Gardner Island this is the one that a lot of people believe is
where Amelia Earhart may have ended up at one time some of these islands were claimed by the
United States as part of the 1856 guano Islands act but in 1979 when Kiribati became independent
the the United States signed a treaty with them that said they could have all the islands back
except for Baker and Howland Island which are part of a group known as the United States minor
outlying Islands these are the type of places you could land on and not see anyone for years
number four Auckland Islands New Zealand the Auckland islands are a group of islands about
290 miles south of the south island of New Zealand and nobody lives here they have a
few Islands out here like Rose Island Ocean Island Yule Island Ewing Island they got a group of rocks
called Sugarloaf rocks and they have an island that they should send all their underachieving
husbands to called Disappointment Island they found evidence of Polynesian settlements on
these islands which would make it the most southernly settlements by Polynesians ever
discovered the uninhabited islands were rediscovered in 1806 by a whaling vessel
who just kind of happened upon them nobody's ever really lived here since the Polynesians
left and they think that was in the 13th century number three gutsuka Sanden Sweden gutsuka Sanden
is literally translated into gothlandic Sand Island it is an uninhabited Swedish island
in the Baltic Sea even though nobody lives here there is a chapel on the island it's a beautiful
island and it's not too far from the mainland I'm sort of surprised that there's not like a town or
anything on this island probably has something to do with the fact that it's been a national
park since 1909. the only real residents are colony of gray seals and some rabbits
number two clipperton island clipperton island is actually a coral atoll south of Mexico and west of
Guatemala in the Pacific Ocean it was named after a pirate John clipperton he is the first person
to actually step foot on the island so he claimed that he named it and now it's clipperton Island a
lot of people think Magellan went through here and discovered it first but didn't get off to check
out the tiny atoll this atoll's just a circular strip of sand with some bushes and a few coconut
trees but what makes this one different is the inner part of the atoll is fresh water and people
have lived here before the island had changed hands several times over the centuries and for
a very strange reason guano yeah bird poop they wanted at that bird poop back in the 17 and 1800s
there was a market for it the French had this for a while the United States had it for a while and
even the British had it for a while before Mexico decided they wanted it again but since they were
at a serious disadvantage against the British of the time they they knew they couldn't go to war
with Britain so they struck a deal the British were allowed to get all the guano they want they
just had to recognize Mexico's sovereignty the British didn't care they said fine and that was
that eventually the British decided it wasn't worth it and they sort of abandoned the island
except for a caretaker and his wife Mexico decided since it was abandoned they could now take it over
so they sent some Soldiers with their wives and kids to colonize clippered an island there was
about 100 of them things didn't go well they lost contact with the mainland after being there a few
years and things got weird really weird people started dying people started drowning and then
when there was just a few women and some children left the only man on the island decided he was
the king of clipperton Island and it was a reign of terror after being treated horribly for about
18 months the women kind of rebelled and they killed him with a hammer now in a strange twist
the same day they killed him with the hammer they were finally rescued by an American ship
that just happened to see the island and came in for a closer look nobody's lived there since
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number one Jackal Island East Timor Jacko island has no permanent residence and that's because the
locals think it is a sacred Island sort of like the place the Brady kids would have to drop off
an idol even though it is sacred Island and the locals don't live there they encourage you to go
camp explore the island just don't get eaten by a crocodile since 2007 Jackal island has been part
of a national park system but if you do want to go visit you better be able to swim or get a local to
take you over on a boat just you know give them a time to come pick you up when you're all done
seeing the island not being eaten by crocodile a lot of people that visit here are there for
the scuba diving snorkeling whatever it's not too far off the main island either you could
probably swim it if you got some good lungs on you but if you don't the local fishermen do kind
of you know double as vendors and Water Taxis all right that's today's video hope you guys
enjoyed it hope you got some information out of it have a great day be nice to each other