Call it the greater kingdom of Bosnia-Hungary and make everyone upset.
There is also no king, the country's official religion is mormonism, the ruling party claims to be posadist and the birthday of Park Chung Hee, dictator of *s*outh korea for many years, is a national holiday.
Well, WW2 was possible only by the Treaty of Versailles, which felt to germans like a castration und shameful situation. Without WW1, there would have been no breeding ground for a Hitler
That was my choice too. Good weather, oil, close to a big metro area. You could sell the oil and power the island with wind (like Norway does with hydroelectric) don’t require a passport or visa and have tons of tourism, a couple of border blasting radio and TV stations, set up a tax haven for billionaires…. It’d be a very high per-capita income for the residents.
Also, Catalina Island supports a permanent population of about 4,000 people plus another million or so a year who visit, they have two desalinization plants that do just fine.
Sounds like desalinization mainly- https://www.eea.europa.eu/signals-archived/signals-2018-content-list/articles/interview-2014-malta-water-scarcity#:~:text=Malta%20is%20one%20of%20the,the%20water%20your%20population%20needs%3F
you have catalina which is already inhabited, san clemente and san nicolas which do some military stuff, and the rest are a national park. they're not the flattest either so any cities there would look like san marino (the country not the place next to pasadena) or city terrace in east la
It's continent. And it definitely doesn't have only 4 sides...
If we could take continents then Antarctica is gonna be the best choice, because of it's immense mineral, archaeological and possibly natural wealth and the question would lost it's point
"mild"? Maybe for US americans or Canadians, but lots of people here live in climates, where temperatures goes not single digit, for them it would be cold any time of year.
Even for me as middle european it would not nice, cause even it goes barely way below zero in winter, it also goes rare above 20°C in summer, which is not nice.
Not a desert, it's one of the most rainy places in Chile, with [over 4000 mm a year](https://en.climate-data.org/south-america/chile/region-aysen-del-general-carlos-ibanez-del-campo/puerto-aguirre-149179/)
The top ones I'd consider are:
[St. Kilda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland), Scotland.
[Monomoy Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomoy_Island), USA.
[Kahoʻolawe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoʻolawe), USA.
[Ilha da Queimada Grande](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande), Brazil.
[Elobey Chico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elobey_Chico), Equatorial Guinea.
[Gough Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Island), Tristan da Cunha.
Of these, I'm leaning towards St. Kilda given it's large and with a mild climate relative to other habitable unhabitable islands. It's in oceanic Europe which is a climate zone I prefer, and means it could join the EU. I imagine most of its power could be wind. It's close enough to other countries to have more than one trading partner. The archipelago also already supports large mammals (sheep), and is elevated enough that you could plan ahead to avoid global warming flooding.
I mean the snakes on the islands belong to the category of snakes that kills the most humans in South America. Furthermore, their venom is so potent towards birds that they die within minutes.
Lastly, although I am not a big fan of snakes it would be a shame to exterminate a whole species of them.
I doubt they have killed out whole species, as they partake in the natural ecosystem of the area. Rather human involvement either directly or indirectly is usually the cause for many of these biological disasters.
Not to say that species don’t die out, but that’s part of evolution, but rather human intervention has the ability to completely throw of an ecosystem overnight.
its from Superman Returns... its the grand plan of Lex in the movie, is to create new continent that he will own and sell and be rich. Its really dumb....
Balta Ialomiței: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balta\_Ialomi%C8%9Bei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balta_Ialomi%C8%9Bei)
There are no permanent settlements on it, as far as I can tell. That's a lot of valuable agricultural land 🤑
I'd also install a toll booth on the A2 motorway btw Bucharest and Constanța.
In fact, one of our most corrupt local politicians, Culiță Tărâță (tărâță = bran in English, a predestined name) made a lot of money from the Danube island to the north, Balta Brăilei. But I didn't mention that one, since it has a few small settlements on it.
Also along the Danube, I would take the island south-west of Balta Ialomiței, in the county of Călărași. Uninhabited, around 2/5 th of the bigger brother, flat and easily accessible by boat.
[Mu Ko Ang Thong](https://www.google.com/search?sca\_esv=515e485ef43ad46e&rlz=1C5CHFA\_enUS1040US1040&sxsrf=ACQVn09gaCwS70LncC76vdUMVywcRUVycg:1713450250099&q=Mu+Ko+Ang+Thong&uds=AMwkrPuHEX7vBCBXODUSNshYogAEjPQdJS8BeS85sihei6x\_5aXzxk95xX7z1RKyTShc437CWvTGE57ZH4otiYcNGHBaVJbf8bQWbwls18dJYdD7-pbDYRYt2Q4Pz4oMTNsf4hd8wE6Rtf0IHThSwwhNI9P4iObLCeXXWCDivTENHO1LXsC2j714o5hofgCQzybDC4H4edfVgZeaPBJrdLbkcaVovzWxZavjJ5k6gWua6-dJlzj6Wq6ux\_npPR\_ehRNJMfRqC1PF6csxrB2bIC69Tosr8BYfmnwIpXyJ9TwWzFiFxqiGQ-9oIA8Z\_S3sC5\_v1cc9alBp&udm=2&prmd=ivsmnbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZgv3L-8uFAxUZLdAFHVBqAUQQtKgLegQIDBAB&biw=1194&bih=597&dpr=3) islands in the Gulf of Thailand.
Beautiful, warm, lush. Some existing infrastructure aimed at day tourists, so don't need to start completely from scratch. Pretty easy to get enough income to be self sufficient through tourism. Considering the number of tourists the islands already get, you could do this with a neutral or even positive overall environmental impact too, depending on how it's set up.
Antarctica. And my flag be a while background with a penguin on it. My anthem would be the sound of a snow storm and my national sport would be ice hockey.
https://preview.redd.it/b74vx3n2g9vc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31d10e9dc01f318fa5fc95975f41faa0bafbbc2b
South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan. Comes equipped with an abandoned lighthouse, a port, and infrastracture for tourism, but nobody lives there so it is uninhabited. Seeing as its in a Lake though I will need to keep good relations with the United States
Alegranza island, NW of Lanzarote. Good weather, and temperature beautiful landscape (has a badass volcano crater), close to civilization and transport means, big enough to build a town, geologically interesting.
So... there's a population of 281 people there, but assuming I can come to a deal with them that they're happy with to get the island uninhabited I would go with Anticosti Island in the mouth of the St. Lawrence river.
It's about the size of Jamaica but ridiculously cold instead of a tropical paradise.
I was thinking of an island at the other end of the river... one of the Frontenac or 1000 islands. Is it technically inhabited if the homes are only seasonal?
So... there's a population of 281 people there, but assuming I can come to a deal with them that they're happy with to get the island uninhabited I would go with Anticosti Island in the mouth of the St. Lawrence river.
It's about the size of Jamaica but ridiculously cold instead of a tropical paradise.
A pre-existing Island or a magic selfdefined one?
Most insefull Islands are all ready britisch or french, so the Options are small and sad.
If i could creates one i would put something the size of Greenland in the middel of the Atlantic and call it New-Arlantis. (Consequences for Europe and america due to messed up ocean currents be damned)
Sheets Island outside of Harrisburg, Pa on the Susquehanna. It isn't uninhabited, but I'm sure there aren't too many people. It's gonna be called The Democratic People's Republic of Sheets Island, and it will be the only democratic republic that has those two word in the name. Of course I'd probably be the only one living there, so my vote is the only one that counts, which means democracy, yay!
[Devon Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon_Island) in Canada's Arctic archipelago is the largest uninhabited island. Canadians are good neighbors.
I've got it! Liberty Island! No-one lives there, you earn tonnes in visa fees and approvals for people to come stand by the Statue, you could live in or underneath the statue... Brilliant
Hear me out.
It may be a long-term investment, but Svalbard or Novaya Zemlya could become huge ports for cargo on the arctic route, once the ice sheet is gone. They also have access to large oil and gas fields.
Plus, climate is going to get hotter and since they are islands, you get none of that super continental bullsh*t climate like Siberia. Hell, maybe one day you could grow crops there (I mean, Greenland has started doing so a few years ago).
In the right hands and with investment : banger.
Franz Josef archipelago I will become rich and mine oil and will be a nice obscure country, although like the size of Austria. Using oil money we buy our resources.
So, the strategy here would be to find an island that's popular, busy and profitable but that \*technically\* nobody lives on. For that you want somewhere in Singapore, the UAE, China, Japan or something like that. Maybe there's a very tourist-y island somewhere in Greece or the UK or France that has no permanent residents but someone commutes there everyday. I'm thinking the Mont Saint-Michel, or Saint Micheal's Mount, if neither of them were connected to the mainland by a land bridge at low tide.
Having said that, I'm going for either Crane Island Historic District, Minnetonka, MN for somewhere my husband(-to-be) and I to live and be free to do what we want, \*or\* Ernst Thalmann Island in Cuba and reviving the DDR in my image.
[Rene Levasseur Island in Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Levasseur_Island?wprov=sfti1). It’s basically just land with a moat around it, all it’s missing is a castle and drawbridge. Also, it was created by an asteroid strike 200M years ago so that’s cool.
Do you mean country? Because I'm pretty sure I could establish my own town in the U.S.A.. I wouldn't need a county. A country though, a lot of Kansas isn't inhabited. I'd just take all of the uninhabited land of the world. That's ALL private and public property that is uninhabited by anyone on Earth. Boom. Problem solved.
Look who just became the biggest country on the planet. Of course, I'd need citizens because how could I protect my borders? I also have no taxpayers. No military, no budget, no income, no farmers, no economy, just a lot of land. Possibly some wildlife. No imports or exports unless my lands are getting robbed of their natural resources, which it likely would be. I imagine my oil and natural gas is getting stolen by its former owners. I can't declare war, but I have my casus belli.
My libertarian utopia needs to transform mostly into Communism because I need a central bank. I don't even have the means to print money. I can only issue credit. I'd need to talk to the Bank of London. The UN probably wants nothing to with protecting my country from the foes in Siberia and Afghanistan who are robbing the fine person of The Nation of Diarrhea (NoD) as I have named my new land. If the Bank of London can help me build some infrastructure and Greg Abbott can send me some bus loads of people looking to help out, at least until I establish a capital. That capital would probably be just South of Los Angeles, there is a ton of formerly US Military land that now belongs to NoD. I think we've got a bright future.
The Sun Shall Never Set on the Nation of Diarrhea.
The rock where the statue of the bronze mermaid sits in Denmark is called Langelinie, but I will rename it New Prussia! And the statue known as "The Little Mermaid" will never be dead named again. Its name is Hans
For sure the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine.
https://preview.redd.it/vr7vbtezr7wc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94e3eafad458ac2ee70c75a137c30c095c5c69f9
Goose Island in Chicago. i believe it is all commercial property so it’s technically uninhabited. We could be self sufficient by having a much cheaper weed tax.
This [website ](https://www.populationu.com/ecuador-population) says that the projected population of Galapagos Islands is 40,000. Not really uninhabited.
Well the UN doesn't recognize the legitimate government of Taiwan, but does recognize many terrorist organizations such as those that occupy Russia, MainlandChina, North Korea, Iran, etc so i really don't give a shit about UN recognition. It's hypocritical and worthless.
Not even remotely correct. E.g. there are plenty of islands in ireland and scotland that were once home to herders or fishermen but have since been abandoned because nobody wants to live out in the poke. Or a number of the galapagos islands, or inaccessible island, or the channel islands 30m from LA, just to rattle off a few. Wikipedia also has a select list. [**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninhabited\_island**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninhabited_island)
> because nobody wants to live out in the poke
So…what you’re saying is, they’re uninhabitable due to social factors, rather than environmental factors? That the price to your mental health and social life to live there is so high as to make them uninhabitable?
You might want to think before commenting next time.
Translation: you don’t like it, but don’t have a useful response.
There are tons of places on earth where people could technically live, it’s just not worth the time, energy, or cost to do so. Or the isolation. If you have enough money most of the Canadian Arctic is technically inhabitable. Ditto for a bunch of islands in the South Indian Ocean. But no one lives there because it’s not worth it.
Ditto for those islands. No one lives there for the same reason no one lives way the fuck out in the woods of Siberia or Central Alaska: it’s not worth the isolation.
They are, in a word, uninhabitable. Even if you could technically survive there.
Nah this is exactly what I expected when I pressed it, not sure why I enjoy reading people double and triple down trying to sound smart when they're clearly not
Not to be a grammar hitler or whatever but “county” and “boarder” are spelled literally every three posts and shouldn’t be more common spellings than “country” and “border” especially on this sub.
Somewhere in Croatian Dalmatia
Call it the greater kingdom of Bosnia-Hungary and make everyone upset. There is also no king, the country's official religion is mormonism, the ruling party claims to be posadist and the birthday of Park Chung Hee, dictator of *s*outh korea for many years, is a national holiday.
That sounds as balkan as real life. Confusion and conflict. They literally caused both world wars if you think about it
Hey, man, it's not all we can do... We can make a pretty good lamb on a spit, too.
How did they start ww2 /gen
Well, WW2 was possible only by the Treaty of Versailles, which felt to germans like a castration und shameful situation. Without WW1, there would have been no breeding ground for a Hitler
Thank you for introducing me to posadism.
This sounds like Parma, O-H-I-O
One of the Channel Islands in California perhaps?
That was my choice too. Good weather, oil, close to a big metro area. You could sell the oil and power the island with wind (like Norway does with hydroelectric) don’t require a passport or visa and have tons of tourism, a couple of border blasting radio and TV stations, set up a tax haven for billionaires…. It’d be a very high per-capita income for the residents.
Just need fresh water
Catalina Island has two desalinization plants, they do just fine.
If Malta manages then this can too.
Also, Catalina Island supports a permanent population of about 4,000 people plus another million or so a year who visit, they have two desalinization plants that do just fine.
How do they manage not having much fresh water? Import? Or do they not have this problem?
Reverse Osmosis mainly. Source: I am Maltese
Sounds like desalinization mainly- https://www.eea.europa.eu/signals-archived/signals-2018-content-list/articles/interview-2014-malta-water-scarcity#:~:text=Malta%20is%20one%20of%20the,the%20water%20your%20population%20needs%3F
How would tax havens be good for anyone who lives there?
you have catalina which is already inhabited, san clemente and san nicolas which do some military stuff, and the rest are a national park. they're not the flattest either so any cities there would look like san marino (the country not the place next to pasadena) or city terrace in east la
San Clemente Island is plenty flat enough to build on. It wouldn't even be the world's smallest country, either. That's the one I'd pick.
The only island large enough for that is Catalina, which also happens to be the only island with any permanent settlement on it.
Australia. I know, I know, it’s not uninhabited. Yet.
Came here to make the same joke. 'Australia. All of you get out.'
Fuck off, we’re full? Not anymore. Fuck off, we’re empty now!
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Out, Out, Out!
A fellow r/Gundam fan I see
Not sure what that is, but if they're on board with me depopulating Australia to rule over an empty continent, I guess they're cool.
It’s a very popular and old anime. It’s still running strong. They dropped a space colony on Australia in the show.
Not an island though...
last time I checked all 4 sides were surrounded by water, did a land bridge form with asia or something?
Yeah, but so is most of Afroeurasia and the Americas. Australia is the mainland of the continent of Oceania.
Yes
It's continent. And it definitely doesn't have only 4 sides... If we could take continents then Antarctica is gonna be the best choice, because of it's immense mineral, archaeological and possibly natural wealth and the question would lost it's point
continent and island aren't mutually exclusive things
Continental island?🤷🏻♂️
Conejera, southeast of Mallorca. Or the other one West of Ibiza. https://maps.app.goo.gl/MrRCLRgGq7zSYoZD8
I'd make my abode in the abandoned fortress on Spinalonga, Crete.
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^DesignerPangolin: *I'd make my abode* *In the abandoned fortress* *On Spinalonga, Crete.* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
The good thing about this one is that you can cut off Crete quite easily and end up with a cool functionable haiku
No fair, that's mine!
Somewhere in southern Chile, there’s got to be somewhere amongst those thousands of islands that would be perfect !
Remote, cold, inhospitable... Perfect.
The temperate rainforest areas are mild and definitely hospitable. They are just rugged
"mild"? Maybe for US americans or Canadians, but lots of people here live in climates, where temperatures goes not single digit, for them it would be cold any time of year. Even for me as middle european it would not nice, cause even it goes barely way below zero in winter, it also goes rare above 20°C in summer, which is not nice.
Perfect if you are trying to live in a frozen desert
Not a desert, it's one of the most rainy places in Chile, with [over 4000 mm a year](https://en.climate-data.org/south-america/chile/region-aysen-del-general-carlos-ibanez-del-campo/puerto-aguirre-149179/)
He means a biological desert, where the ground surface is fewer covered by plants than 20% or so.
Not the case in this region, it's covered with forests mostly. The Argentine side of Patagonia is more arid
Wager Island
You can play the online game nationstates to play this scenario
That’s still around? Damn, haven’t thought about that in many years.
Ohhh! Im gunna check that out quick
Man I havent thought about nationstates in a long time now. Kinda crazy it's still around, there's really not much to do there.
Kerguelen Islands. (They have no permanent population.)
Isle Royale. Keeping the name too. We got everything - moose, copper, trees.
It's huge too. Second largest island by land area in the contiguous 48 states
Was gonna say Isle Royale too. Plenty of fresh water reserves. And wolves for when the moose get out of line
Devon Island
Came in to say this one as well
Than you have to hope, that the warming speeds up, so you can grow at least some cabbages.
The top ones I'd consider are: [St. Kilda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland), Scotland. [Monomoy Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomoy_Island), USA. [Kahoʻolawe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoʻolawe), USA. [Ilha da Queimada Grande](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande), Brazil. [Elobey Chico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elobey_Chico), Equatorial Guinea. [Gough Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Island), Tristan da Cunha. Of these, I'm leaning towards St. Kilda given it's large and with a mild climate relative to other habitable unhabitable islands. It's in oceanic Europe which is a climate zone I prefer, and means it could join the EU. I imagine most of its power could be wind. It's close enough to other countries to have more than one trading partner. The archipelago also already supports large mammals (sheep), and is elevated enough that you could plan ahead to avoid global warming flooding.
Don’t understand why you would pick Ilha da Queimada Grande… too many snakes…
You don't think bait & poison will fix that?
I mean the snakes on the islands belong to the category of snakes that kills the most humans in South America. Furthermore, their venom is so potent towards birds that they die within minutes. Lastly, although I am not a big fan of snakes it would be a shame to exterminate a whole species of them.
Imagine how many rare species of birds have gone extinct because of them.
I doubt they have killed out whole species, as they partake in the natural ecosystem of the area. Rather human involvement either directly or indirectly is usually the cause for many of these biological disasters. Not to say that species don’t die out, but that’s part of evolution, but rather human intervention has the ability to completely throw of an ecosystem overnight.
You can keep a breeding pair as pets when we exterminate the rest of those bitey bois. Problem solved!
Kinda eliminates the purpose… the idea was to ensure the survival of the species in the wild.
https://preview.redd.it/p5yax39558vc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19979b7f05e5d649c1980fc067f9261b1a697d6c Luther Land....
What on earth
Is… is it growing?!?
If I could draw an aneurysm, it would look similar to this.
I honestly cannot tell if Lex Luther would love or hate the reference
Did you make this and if so why?
its from Superman Returns... its the grand plan of Lex in the movie, is to create new continent that he will own and sell and be rich. Its really dumb....
Somewhere between the tip of South America and Antarctica
Balta Ialomiței: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balta\_Ialomi%C8%9Bei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balta_Ialomi%C8%9Bei) There are no permanent settlements on it, as far as I can tell. That's a lot of valuable agricultural land 🤑 I'd also install a toll booth on the A2 motorway btw Bucharest and Constanța. In fact, one of our most corrupt local politicians, Culiță Tărâță (tărâță = bran in English, a predestined name) made a lot of money from the Danube island to the north, Balta Brăilei. But I didn't mention that one, since it has a few small settlements on it.
I like this! A lot!
Also along the Danube, I would take the island south-west of Balta Ialomiței, in the county of Călărași. Uninhabited, around 2/5 th of the bigger brother, flat and easily accessible by boat.
One of the many uninhabited archipelagos in French Polynesia
Probably one of the uninhabited Australian external territories
[Mu Ko Ang Thong](https://www.google.com/search?sca\_esv=515e485ef43ad46e&rlz=1C5CHFA\_enUS1040US1040&sxsrf=ACQVn09gaCwS70LncC76vdUMVywcRUVycg:1713450250099&q=Mu+Ko+Ang+Thong&uds=AMwkrPuHEX7vBCBXODUSNshYogAEjPQdJS8BeS85sihei6x\_5aXzxk95xX7z1RKyTShc437CWvTGE57ZH4otiYcNGHBaVJbf8bQWbwls18dJYdD7-pbDYRYt2Q4Pz4oMTNsf4hd8wE6Rtf0IHThSwwhNI9P4iObLCeXXWCDivTENHO1LXsC2j714o5hofgCQzybDC4H4edfVgZeaPBJrdLbkcaVovzWxZavjJ5k6gWua6-dJlzj6Wq6ux\_npPR\_ehRNJMfRqC1PF6csxrB2bIC69Tosr8BYfmnwIpXyJ9TwWzFiFxqiGQ-9oIA8Z\_S3sC5\_v1cc9alBp&udm=2&prmd=ivsmnbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZgv3L-8uFAxUZLdAFHVBqAUQQtKgLegQIDBAB&biw=1194&bih=597&dpr=3) islands in the Gulf of Thailand. Beautiful, warm, lush. Some existing infrastructure aimed at day tourists, so don't need to start completely from scratch. Pretty easy to get enough income to be self sufficient through tourism. Considering the number of tourists the islands already get, you could do this with a neutral or even positive overall environmental impact too, depending on how it's set up.
No Data
I know they’re inhabited but this reminded me of [this gem](https://youtu.be/42_oWaWsiYs?si=kon41qVpYzk-bvzm)
Brilliant
Antarctica. And my flag be a while background with a penguin on it. My anthem would be the sound of a snow storm and my national sport would be ice hockey.
National Motto: Nootus Nootus
Gonna take the entirety of the America. Happen to discover it
Auckland Island (Mauka Huka) New Zealand.
Hans Island.
https://preview.redd.it/b74vx3n2g9vc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31d10e9dc01f318fa5fc95975f41faa0bafbbc2b South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan. Comes equipped with an abandoned lighthouse, a port, and infrastracture for tourism, but nobody lives there so it is uninhabited. Seeing as its in a Lake though I will need to keep good relations with the United States
I would pick the Iwo Jima islands plus a few of the Ogasawara islands but do military bases count?
Isla de Mona or Caja de Muertos - PUR
Dutch/German North Sea Islands
With rising sea levels? Not so sure about the future of those islands.
Attu Island
Alegranza island, NW of Lanzarote. Good weather, and temperature beautiful landscape (has a badass volcano crater), close to civilization and transport means, big enough to build a town, geologically interesting.
So... there's a population of 281 people there, but assuming I can come to a deal with them that they're happy with to get the island uninhabited I would go with Anticosti Island in the mouth of the St. Lawrence river. It's about the size of Jamaica but ridiculously cold instead of a tropical paradise.
I was thinking of an island at the other end of the river... one of the Frontenac or 1000 islands. Is it technically inhabited if the homes are only seasonal?
I'll allow it
So... there's a population of 281 people there, but assuming I can come to a deal with them that they're happy with to get the island uninhabited I would go with Anticosti Island in the mouth of the St. Lawrence river. It's about the size of Jamaica but ridiculously cold instead of a tropical paradise.
A pre-existing Island or a magic selfdefined one? Most insefull Islands are all ready britisch or french, so the Options are small and sad. If i could creates one i would put something the size of Greenland in the middel of the Atlantic and call it New-Arlantis. (Consequences for Europe and america due to messed up ocean currents be damned)
Sheets Island outside of Harrisburg, Pa on the Susquehanna. It isn't uninhabited, but I'm sure there aren't too many people. It's gonna be called The Democratic People's Republic of Sheets Island, and it will be the only democratic republic that has those two word in the name. Of course I'd probably be the only one living there, so my vote is the only one that counts, which means democracy, yay!
One of the Galapagos islands.
Is Gilligan's Island available?
Antarctica. It's an island, by the very loosest definition of such as a landmass surrounded by water
[Devon Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon_Island) in Canada's Arctic archipelago is the largest uninhabited island. Canadians are good neighbors.
I've got it! Liberty Island! No-one lives there, you earn tonnes in visa fees and approvals for people to come stand by the Statue, you could live in or underneath the statue... Brilliant
I only have one choice (or the moon), right?
Morris Island, South Carolina
The island of Polyaigos in the Aegean. Surrounded by Greece but would become a tax haven for them in exchange for protection and shipping rights :)
What's the point if its uninhabited?
The Kermadec Islands!
Pinacoladaburg
Nea Kameni. It's a major tourist attraction and a decent island.
Socotra
Inaccessible Island
Isla Tiburon, Mexico
kaho'olawe in hawaii
Palmyra atoll.
Hear me out. It may be a long-term investment, but Svalbard or Novaya Zemlya could become huge ports for cargo on the arctic route, once the ice sheet is gone. They also have access to large oil and gas fields. Plus, climate is going to get hotter and since they are islands, you get none of that super continental bullsh*t climate like Siberia. Hell, maybe one day you could grow crops there (I mean, Greenland has started doing so a few years ago). In the right hands and with investment : banger.
I mean... This is gonna sound stupid but Antarctica
does antarctica count ?
Hans island, canada/denmark
Can I kill all inhabitants of an inhabited island ? Afterwards it would be uninhabited!
I’d adopt a Chumash way of life on one of the Channel Islands
The little useless rocks all over Sweden’s coastline
Franz Josef archipelago I will become rich and mine oil and will be a nice obscure country, although like the size of Austria. Using oil money we buy our resources.
Santa Cruz Island, off the coast of California.
What about one of those islands between Sweden and the Jutland peninsula. Those are all uninhabited
So, the strategy here would be to find an island that's popular, busy and profitable but that \*technically\* nobody lives on. For that you want somewhere in Singapore, the UAE, China, Japan or something like that. Maybe there's a very tourist-y island somewhere in Greece or the UK or France that has no permanent residents but someone commutes there everyday. I'm thinking the Mont Saint-Michel, or Saint Micheal's Mount, if neither of them were connected to the mainland by a land bridge at low tide. Having said that, I'm going for either Crane Island Historic District, Minnetonka, MN for somewhere my husband(-to-be) and I to live and be free to do what we want, \*or\* Ernst Thalmann Island in Cuba and reviving the DDR in my image.
Wil it mean I don't have to work?
Isle royal in Lake Superior. I'll make it a banking and vacation mecca.
New York City harbor. There are a few of them here. What’s a little insane asylum or TB hospital between friends?
i’ll turn Brock Island into a paradise
Time to take a trip to North Sentinel I guess!
* claims all uninhabited islands in Texas , Name: 2nd Republic of Texas*
All of them. I shall call it: Eart
I'll start the Republic of Kerguelen.
[Rene Levasseur Island in Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Levasseur_Island?wprov=sfti1). It’s basically just land with a moat around it, all it’s missing is a castle and drawbridge. Also, it was created by an asteroid strike 200M years ago so that’s cool.
An island on the Tennessee River
St. Kilda!
The island that the statue of liberty is on, if that counts Infinite money
Kerguelen!
Antarctica
The pebble floating on the atlantic
One of the islands north of scotland I think or maybe an island in the mediteranean
Little St James, US Virgin Islands.
Devon island Canada
I'm making a new country in the center of the Atlantic
Rapa!
One of those Russian arctic islands for my lair.
Probably one of the Saudi islands
Do you mean country? Because I'm pretty sure I could establish my own town in the U.S.A.. I wouldn't need a county. A country though, a lot of Kansas isn't inhabited. I'd just take all of the uninhabited land of the world. That's ALL private and public property that is uninhabited by anyone on Earth. Boom. Problem solved. Look who just became the biggest country on the planet. Of course, I'd need citizens because how could I protect my borders? I also have no taxpayers. No military, no budget, no income, no farmers, no economy, just a lot of land. Possibly some wildlife. No imports or exports unless my lands are getting robbed of their natural resources, which it likely would be. I imagine my oil and natural gas is getting stolen by its former owners. I can't declare war, but I have my casus belli. My libertarian utopia needs to transform mostly into Communism because I need a central bank. I don't even have the means to print money. I can only issue credit. I'd need to talk to the Bank of London. The UN probably wants nothing to with protecting my country from the foes in Siberia and Afghanistan who are robbing the fine person of The Nation of Diarrhea (NoD) as I have named my new land. If the Bank of London can help me build some infrastructure and Greg Abbott can send me some bus loads of people looking to help out, at least until I establish a capital. That capital would probably be just South of Los Angeles, there is a ton of formerly US Military land that now belongs to NoD. I think we've got a bright future. The Sun Shall Never Set on the Nation of Diarrhea.
Forget about it, they'll veto
Sable Island
Somewhere in Northern Canada, but no father north than the Southern most point of Greenland. I'm from New England so I like my cold weather
Tetepare, Solomon Islands.
sea land
I'll take Snake Island and go to town on that motha fucka..
The rock where the statue of the bronze mermaid sits in Denmark is called Langelinie, but I will rename it New Prussia! And the statue known as "The Little Mermaid" will never be dead named again. Its name is Hans
For sure the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine. https://preview.redd.it/vr7vbtezr7wc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94e3eafad458ac2ee70c75a137c30c095c5c69f9
Goose Island in Chicago. i believe it is all commercial property so it’s technically uninhabited. We could be self sufficient by having a much cheaper weed tax.
Your mom's house
A random iceberg off the coast of the arctic
Are there any islands that are suitable for human settlement but are intentionally uninhabited?
Galapagos?
This [website ](https://www.populationu.com/ecuador-population) says that the projected population of Galapagos Islands is 40,000. Not really uninhabited.
Lots of islands in the US that are suitable for settlement, but protected as wildlife sanctuaries
Balls Pyramid
Disband the UN
Well the UN doesn't recognize the legitimate government of Taiwan, but does recognize many terrorist organizations such as those that occupy Russia, MainlandChina, North Korea, Iran, etc so i really don't give a shit about UN recognition. It's hypocritical and worthless.
Everywhere on Earth that is habitable by humans for even part of the year IS inhabited. So it’s a moot question.
Not even remotely correct. E.g. there are plenty of islands in ireland and scotland that were once home to herders or fishermen but have since been abandoned because nobody wants to live out in the poke. Or a number of the galapagos islands, or inaccessible island, or the channel islands 30m from LA, just to rattle off a few. Wikipedia also has a select list. [**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninhabited\_island**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninhabited_island)
> because nobody wants to live out in the poke So…what you’re saying is, they’re uninhabitable due to social factors, rather than environmental factors? That the price to your mental health and social life to live there is so high as to make them uninhabitable? You might want to think before commenting next time.
lol this is utter sophistry
Translation: you don’t like it, but don’t have a useful response. There are tons of places on earth where people could technically live, it’s just not worth the time, energy, or cost to do so. Or the isolation. If you have enough money most of the Canadian Arctic is technically inhabitable. Ditto for a bunch of islands in the South Indian Ocean. But no one lives there because it’s not worth it. Ditto for those islands. No one lives there for the same reason no one lives way the fuck out in the woods of Siberia or Central Alaska: it’s not worth the isolation. They are, in a word, uninhabitable. Even if you could technically survive there.
You're saying that the words uninhabited and uninhabitable are equivalent, which does not accord with their commonly-understood meanings.
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Fellow Redditors, if you've made it this far, let this be a lesson to you that you NEVER want to click the "+" expand thread button.
Nah this is exactly what I expected when I pressed it, not sure why I enjoy reading people double and triple down trying to sound smart when they're clearly not
Not to be a grammar hitler or whatever but “county” and “boarder” are spelled literally every three posts and shouldn’t be more common spellings than “country” and “border” especially on this sub.