User:Π π π/List of remotest islands

This list of remotest islands was compiled by me in many hours of research. I expect it to be complete at least up to 200 km, and hopefully also entirely.

Remoteness is the distance to the nearest landmass. In order to not disqualify remote islands with small offshore rocks or islets, I had to come up with a new definition for island for this list: An archipelago is considered an island if the minimal distance of any land in the archipelago to any land outside of it is at least twice as big as the maximal distance of any land in the archipelago to the shore of the archipelago's largest island. In other words, the archipelago has to be at least twice as far from the nearest landmass as the group's main island is from its most outlying island.

Unsurprisingly, this definition excludes some classic archipelagos while some groups of islands that are usually not considered archipelagos appear in the list. However, this is unavoidable if one strives for an objective list independent of arbitrary, historically and culturally arisen names. In all, the definition is very simple and deviations from designations roughly keep their balance in both directions, so I am content with this methodology.

Some islands or archipelagos, mostly in and around the Coral and Tasman Seas, have multiple distances listed; this is because the landmass of some atolls is only periodically above sea level or the data available to me is not good enough to determine the nearest landmass with certainty. Every isolation range has an explanatory note (currently in German, will translate soon).

Eleven islands or archipelagos appear on their own as well as as part of a bigger archipelago: Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Isla Salas y Gómez, Gough Island, Bounty Islands, Starbuck Island, Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs, Robinson Crusoe Island, Okidaitōjima, Wolf Island, Bassas da India, and Roca Partida.

If you have questions or find a mistake in the list, please contact me on the talk page. I appreciate any kind of feedback.

Islands that narrowly miss the cut are e.g. Banda Besar (99 km), Buldir Island (98 km), Karakelong (97 km), Stolbovoy Island (97 km), Manra (97 km), Orona (97 km), Franklin Island (96 km), Ono Levu (Ono-i-Lau, 96 km), and Mejit Island (96 km).