Deception Island is a huge and secure natural port in the South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula. This is an active volcano's caldera, which severely devastated local scientific stations in 1967 and 1969. The island used to be a whaling station; presently, it is the most popular tourist site, with over 15,000 tourists each year, and two scientific stations from Argentina and Spain operating during the summer season. While numerous governments have claimed sovereignty, the Antarctic Treaty System continues to govern the region.

There is an island north of the Antarctic Peninsula that is so unusual that Jules Verne may have used it as the enigmatic hidden base of the Nautilus in his famous sci-fi classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. The island is a partially submerged caldera of an active volcano, with a sheltered interior harbor. Despite its name, it has traditionally served as a safe haven for mariners caught in severe seas. Because of the geothermally heated water, this is one of the few spots in Antarctica where you may swim.

Don't miss out on seeing the ruins of Hektor Whaling Station and Antarctica's biggest cemetery, both of which are Antarctic Treaty Historic Sites.

If you want to get there, you should fly to Buenos Aires and then take a small airline or a 50-hour bus journey to Ushuaia. Once there, you'll need to arrange overnight passage to the South Shetlands through the famed Drake Passage.

Easter Island is a Chilean island and special territory in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, near the southeasternmost tip of Oceania's Polynesian Triangle. The island is most known for its roughly 1,000 existing massive sculptures known as moai, which were built by the Rapa Nui people. Easter Island was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995, with the majority of the island preserved inside Rapa Nui National Park.

Easter Island, located in the South Pacific more than 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, is not the easiest destination to get there. (If you're interested, the best way to get there is via plane from Santiago or Tahiti.) However, the island's remoteness has aided in the preservation of the 1,500-year-old mystery gathering of volcanic rock sculptures (MAOI), which is the island's main claim to fame. After visiting the unusual terrain, unwind on an uncrowded beach and reflect on one of the world's most intriguing locations.

Easter Island is extraordinarily inaccessible, despite being well-known and cherished. The largest tourist attractions on the island are the gigantic moai monoliths, which have drawn visitors for millennia despite the island's great geographic isolation.

Camping beneath the Polynesian sky, meeting and interacting with the residents of the world's most distant inhabited island, and exploring its natural wonders on foot and by bike are all options. If you wish to travel, you'll have to fly to Santiago, where you'll only be able to take flights with Chile's national carrier. You're looking at another six hours in the air from Chile's capital!

Madagascar is an island republic in the Indian Ocean, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) off the coast of East Africa across the Mozambique Channel. Its official name is the Republic of Madagascar, and it was previously known as the Malagasy Republic.

It is the world's fourth-biggest island. But you'd be hard-pressed to find a more wild, biologically rich location. Madagascar is an island, although it is not tiny. It has wild scenery, village culture, and beaches. The island is an explosion of nature at every turn, from boundless forests loaded with unique vegetation, rare birds, and endangered creatures to the white-sand beaches of the Malagasy islands and limestone karst formations of Ankarana.

Madagascar developed in isolation after being cut off from the African continent 165 million years ago, resulting in numerous unique and endemic species. The hands-down superstars of this wild performance are the endangered lemur, of which 90 per cent of the surviving global population is found only here.

If you want a challenge, boats are available from Madagascar’s Toamasina on the east coast to Mauritius via Réunion.

Lake Baikal is a rift lake located in Russia situated in southern Siberia between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and Buryatia to the southeast.

Baikal is home to hundreds of plant and animal species, many of which are peculiar to the region. It is also home to Buryat tribes, who breed goats, camels, cattle, sheep, and horses on the lake's eastern side[15], where the mean temperature ranges from a winter minimum of 19 °C (2 °F) to a summer maximum of 14 °C (57 °F).

Baikal, located in south-central Siberia near the Mongolian border and surrounded by mountains, forests, and wild rivers, is a vast and spectacular natural beauty. It is the world's oldest and deepest freshwater lake, holding around 20% of the world's unfrozen surface freshwater. It really has more water than all of the Great Lakes combined. It is also one of the purest lakes in the world, and it is considered to be the world's oldest, dating back 25 million years.

The lake is home to more than 2,000 species of plants and animals. Two-thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world, like the earless nerpa—one of the world's only freshwater species of seal.

Urumqi or Urumchi, originally known as Dihua or Tiwa, is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China's far northwest. Urumqi was an important Silk Road stop during China's Tang dynasty, and it rose to prominence as a premier cultural and economic center under the Qing dynasty in the nineteenth century.

Urumqi, formerly an important Silk Road halt, has evolved into a significant commercial metropolis. The city bears the extraordinary distinction of being the world's most remote from any sea; it is 2,500 kilometers (1,554 miles) from the nearest shoreline. The city has a very Central Asian air, thanks to Cyrillic signage and kebab vendors, yet the bulk of its population is Han.

In the neighboring Tian Shan Mountains, spend the night in a yurt with the native Kazakh minority. This region appears to be in the Swiss Alps, with towering snow-capped mountains and blue lakes, rather than in the middle of China. Spend your day hiking, horseback riding, or simply resting and taking in the scenery.

It might be remote, but Urumqi is served by a number of regional airlines. Get yourself to Beijing, where you can hop a regional airline or clear your schedule for a leisurely 33-hour train ride.

Venezuela is brimming with natural beauties, including the world's tallest waterfall, Angel Falls, which is located in the UNESCO-protected Canaima National Park. Canaima is by far the most popular attraction in the nation, with falls that are 19 times higher than Niagara Falls.

Angel Falls is in fact the highest waterfall in the World. In Spanish, its name is Salto Angel and it falls from a height of 3230 feet with an uninterrupted drop of an incredible 2647 feet.

During the rainy season, Angel Falls creates its own weather. At certain times of the year, those within a one-kilometer radius of the falls can feel the mist settling on their skin. Angel Falls is three times as tall as the Paris landmark, the Eiffel Tower. Canaima National Park is divided into two sections: west and east. Angel Falls is located in the western sector.

Angel Falls is one of Venezuela's most popular tourist destinations, but getting there is a complex process. The falls are located in a remote area of the woods. To reach Canaima camp, the starting point for river expeditions to the foot of the falls, a flight from Maiquetia Airport, Puerto Ordaz, or Ciudad Bolvar is necessary. River expeditions are typically held from June through December when the rivers are deep enough for the Pemon guides to utilize. There is less water visible during the dry season (December to March) than during the other months.

Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east longitude.

The Svalbard Archipelago is best visited by ship, on foot, or by Zodiac, from intimate encounters with icebergs and glaciers to the region's abundant fauna. Roaming polar bears, reclining seals, grazing reindeer, and bird colonies all coexist in this cold environment that most people only go into for a few months of the year.

Because Svalbard is so isolated, it houses the Worldwide Seed Vault, which serves as a safety net against unintentional loss of diversity in the case of a severe regional or global disaster.

Polar bears are frequently at the top of the list of must-see creatures, but the islands also include reindeer, arctic foxes, walruses, and large seabird nesting colonies.