What If You Were Stranded on the World's Most Remote Island?

Bouvet looks like where Club Penguin used to be. I don’t think it’ll be that bad

When the ISS flys over, the astronauts are the closest people to this island for a split second

I love how they speak as if someone can become stranded there. You don’t need to worry about getting off the island because it’s probably harder to get on the island.

Imagine someone is actually there and we just don't know because it's so remote.

Apparently there was a lifeboat found on the island during an expedition in the 70s. So another view on this is that human life is so pervasive that through sheer randomness it'll still manage to set foot on the most remote corner of the planet.

It's kind of comforting to know that, despite the rapid urbanization of seemingly everything around us, there's still a lot of untamed wilderness out there

Let’s take the moment to appreciate how much effort RealLifeLore puts into his content for us. Great job

I like how this island is mentioned in Alien vs. Predator (2004), as "Bouvetøya Island" - they took the full Norwegian name, which already means "Bouvet Island", and added another "Island" to it.
It's also supposedly the frigid Antarctic island where most of the movie takes place, but the one scene that actually shows on a world map where the characters are heading shows Peter I Island instead, which in the dialog is mistakenly called "Bouvetøya Island"

"I am gonna speedrun minecraft"
the spawn point:

I love watching videos like these and also looking on Google Maps and researching islands and countries like these. It's the most fascinating thing ever to me. I don't even understand how some of it is possible. How do people find these places, how does life form there, how does the island even exist? Life is crazy.

I remember finding this island on a map is my highschool class room 10 years ago and it was my special piece of knowledge back then, every time I see a video on Bouvet Island it brings me to then and I am happy more people are learning about it.

Norway: "It's free real-estate."
Everyone else: "Is it, though?"

The ocean between Antarctica and the southernmost tips of the Southern Hemisphere's continents is so much more vast than I ever realized when I was younger. It's like Russia and Canada combined, but just ocean and a few tiny islands.

Every time I go into these videos I always low key like to see how it seaways into the sponsor of the video. I was wondering how he would do this one as micro center and electronics don't work on a remote island, but he did a pretty good turn around. 6.5/10. I'll see you all in his next video for my next ranking.

I think a better question would be "How would you end up stranded on the world's most remote island?"

id love to have knowledge from inuit and native russian populations, and live there for a week or two with experienced hunters. That is the ultimate camping trip. You'd have to bring supplies but you'd never forget it.

Great clip and mini-doco here. Shared. Imagine it would make a fascinating scientific case study for a place untouched by humans to see how much rubbish, chemical pollutants, etc .. turns up, how creatures respond & evolve and more. Fascinating for climatologists & glaciologists too I'd expect.

I am so fascinated by the way he describes every words and I watched through the end. Normally I get bored but this was interesting. Please make more videos like this.

20 years ago I found this island on a map and I so badly wanted to see what it's like there. It would be amazing to be rich enough to fund a trip.

The thought of being in a kayak in the open ocean is absolutely terrifying

Oh I would love to see the fungi there🥰 ….amazing how adaptable everything is. All the unrecorded critters…I wanta go❤️🌎✌🏼

So happy to learn that so much of the world is still empty of people and I hope it remains that way

When he talked about escaping the island, I thought it hilarious he didn't talk too much about the seawater. Yay! You find a kayak. What happens when the freezing cold water splashes into it as you row? What if you capsize?

I’m surprised RLL didn’t touch on the fact that there’s a row boat randomly on the island. (If it’s still there…) Maybe it could be partially restored to escape!

Imagine if we could teleport to everywhere in this planet, how cool it would be to teleport to there, how many thing you could find, like *nothing*
And also take photos from there or install a webcam in there.

I DON’T know how I found this channel but I’m happy I did. Great content!!

My uncle has actually visited Bouvet Island. He was a part of an expedition a few years ago. They needed a doctor with them, and he joined them because he is a doctor.

How often does Google Earth update? You could try writing help on the snow or a beach and hope Google Earth sees it and somebody shares it ..of course it's a long shot to put it's doable if Google Earth updates regularly.. I'm just thinking out loud.

Damn when the British empire sees a piece of land and doesn’t want to take control of it you know it must be bad

Again a great video! Keep up the excellent work! I'm looking
forward to another awesome upload! Take care and stay in touch! ⭐️

I like how cities are becoming bigger so we can care for the wilderness more

Imagine how isolated this is that even imperial UK said to Norway: “Meh, you can ‘ave it m8!”

This is incredibly how a country can claim land so far away. Next thing we know, countries will eventually claim parts of Mars, Venus, and maybe moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

So what you're saying is....
It'll make a good spot when I wanna avoid responsibilities?

Only thing i can think to do would be to try and make a raft out of a seal, using hide and bones for the hull and lashing it together with sinew. If you can catch several seals, you could use the bladders to make the boat buoyant enough to resist sinking if capsized.
You'd almost certainly die of thirst while sailing it tho. Can't think of a way to get around that problem.

Love that you're encouraging people to build a pc!

I wonder if access to the island is really just restricted for nature preservation reasons - If I were Norway, I'd build a small, secret underground base there. It seems like a perfect location to stage small scale intelligence operations into the African and South American continents. It has an active volcano, which means it can be powered geothermally with no above-ground infrastructure. It's extremely remote and the routes by both sea and air pass mostly through areas with very low traffic, so people aren't likely to notice travel to and from the island. And on top of it all, because it's renowned for being so utterly remote and inhospitable, and because ships need permission to go there, it's unlikely anyone would ever find such a base. Even if permission were granted to some explorers to chart and map the island, with weather being so unpredictable and dangerous there, they might still not find it lol.

Imagine if someone was actually on the island and they were discovered during the next expedition

"It's a desolate, empty island in the middle of nowhere."
Norway: *We'll take it!*

So you're saying THIS is where the next Bond Villain will build his lair complex? Can't wait for THAT movie!

Next video should definitely be, “Where is the BEST place to live in all of those green/yellow places?”

Sounds like a good place to build a second Global Seed Vault. Svalbard is actually starting to warm up and become a travel destination.

Bouvet Island. The worlds largest glacier.
Because there’s no trees, or rest, or warmth, or anything.
And the island is bald with a lot of snow it makes hell look like an iceberg.
It’s easier to survive in the woods than on top of a glacier.
Like glaciers, they kind of look like nature’s ice cubes to the frozen parts of the Atlantic.
All is how I would put it other than the looming, hot and territorial Sentinel Island.

You may not be allowed to visit the island but if there's literally nobody within 2000km, who's going to stop you?

2:43 actually, the closest land mass by your video would actually be the southernmost tip of South Africa, not Antarctica.

My favorite part of bouvet is that lifeboat someone found ashore. It’s origin is a fascinating mystery.

1:54 “but the absolute worst place on the entire planet to be stranded on, without a doubt, is in Nor…”
…th Korea?
“way.” Norway
…did not see that coming

3:05 "the only human within that circle"
Not necessarily. There could be ships or planes in that circle.

There's apparently a weather station on the island, so the best thing you could do to get attention is to go there and start smashing things. Yeah, you'd probably get in trouble for breaking the equipment, and who knows how long it would take before they would send someone out to fix it, but beyond that, there's not much chance to get anyone else's attention...

Thanks for making this video in November. If I get transported to the island "as I am", at least I'll be covered in warm winter clothes.

thanks to this video, I was able to guess todays worldle

The vid I'm about to recommend has no connection to me, but I have been kind of mesmerised by a vid on here called 'Bouvet Island as you've never seen' (worth looking up). It's just a helicopter ride around the island coastline in what looks like 'summer'. It's magnetic viewing. It challenges the imagination.

Great video! I would love to live on the Pitcairn Islands.

Don't forget that, even if you could catch the penguins or other animals on the island, you wouldn't have any wood or kindling to start a fire.
So you'd be on a diet consisting exclusively of raw meat. Certainly better than nothing, but risky.
In reality, the best thing to do if you were suddenly teleported to that frozen wasteland would be to lie down and wait for the cold embrace of death.

I like how this went from "yeah this place is the most isolated place in the world" to "Norway owns it and has 3 planned expeditions to it" back to "Don't teleport here cause you'll never be rescued"

I thought you were going to mention the photo of the lifeboat that was found there in the 60's. The captain of the ship also found a peice of an copper floatation barrel that had purposely been split open on the "beach" of the nyroysa part of the island. Mentioning the vela incident and the lifeboat go hand in hand with bouvet
On a return trip a few years later the boat was gone and they couldn't find any more evidence of people who had been stranded. Spooky stuff, this place has always creeped me out

Interesting fact to think about: Perth, Australia is one of the most isolated cities on Earth.

Being Brazilian I always wanted to know more about this island. It's the option before Brazil when I am looking on a drop-down to fill a registration form on any website

One of the most valuable tools you have for survival.. is your brain. It is your greatest weapon if you can use it in creative ways.
My first impulse on hearing about the wildlife actually gives me hope that there would be a chance at survival. As long as you have warm enough clothing on to protect you from the elements for a day or so you should be fine.. as long as you can locate one of those penguin breeding grounds.
Penguins have bones, meat and waterproof skins. Bone burns, bone also can be rendered into glue. Waterproof skins and a high fat content diet of red meat will enable you to function and last a good while. If you can locate any volcanic activity you can locate fresh water, warmth.. and possibly a cooking fire of sorts. That means you can boil seawater for salt to preserve the meat or simply let the cold arctic air dessecate the meat due to the cold, dry and total lack of insects. You can make clothing, and even a boat out of penguin resources, and stock it with a complement of salt cured penguin water skins and meat.
It would take several weeks and dozens of those birds to pull this off, but it is entirely possible. All you would need would be your wits about you and your determination to do what you need to, to survive.

Can’t believe you missed the suggestion of “Sea turtles, mate. A pair of them strapped to my feet”

''You need permission from Norway to be allowed to visit the Island, and they are rarely granted''
What exactly would Norway do if you traveled to the island without permission? Send a ship 13 thousand kilometers away to tell you don't have permission to be on the island? lol

The video producer failed to mention a few amateur radio operators who have either gone in small teams or with an official DXpedition group to operate from the island. There are 3 planned in the next few years to accompany scientists who will land along with the amateur radio operators and communicate worldwide with other hams.

The hardest the survival and the most remote of this land are, the firm ground it points out that no ordinary people would get on this land in the first place. So rest assured you won't be needed to solve this problem.

As somebody who has good connections to certain people who deliver goods that arent legal, I can tell you that these "empty areas" are not really empty. For example in Europe these spots mostly get used to grow ... tomatoes u know

I would live there if I had a mansion, very warm AC, infinite food, infinite drinks and internet and I’ll live there

Imagine you opened a store on Bouvet that somehow got such a high reputation people actually came to shop there.

This is gonna be my "villain's lair" when I become a billionaire.

I’d love to live there

Completely overlooked that there is a habitable research station with telecommunications and self sustaining electricity.
All the reasons given for why it’s impossible to escape are incentives to get there.

the picture at 4:45 is actually British explores Robert Falcon Scott and crew in the Soth Pole as they were racing the Norwegians. As the Norwegians got to the point they were reaching first by 34 days the British found the camp with the flag and took that picture as a sign of defeat. they all died shortly after that picture was taken

I think there would be other people within the 2,000 km radius as there are bound to be ships crossing the region even if it's not a major trade route.

*Fun fact:* There had been a lot of such people, in the middle ages and ancient history who were drifted off from their seaways and reached at the unknown part of the ocean eventually getting lost and later finding a desolate island. And guess what they spent their rest of their lives, on those tiny islands.. finally accepting the fact that they were never ever going to see their families again.

3:53 those sound like a reasonable list of qualities that an island belonging to Norway should have

Right, this is how you do it - you take an Argentavis and fly there. You may also want to bring a lot of berries, tranq arrows, meat and sedatives to tame a few of these penguins and seals. Probably make a good penguin farm and then sell them to Africa for penguin oil 🤣 ...and no I haven't gone mad

Hi, Canadian here. Italy has more than twice our total population in their tiny little boot.
Just continues to blow my mind. That is all.

The thing I found most fascinating about this was nuclear tests are being preformed in an area of the planet that nobody would ever know about unless it was caught by accident.

*Desolate lump of ice 2,000km from any land*
19th Century British Empire: It's claiming time.

i swear i cant help but imagine norway in this scenario as that one civ in civ5 that is at the bottom of the point list all game, and at about turn 250 after not settling all damn game they just plop a city on a random ice tile at one of the poles that has nothing of value and all u can say is "well they did something atleast"

Just imaging myself stranded there makes me feel terrible 🤒

The Netherlands isn’t even comparable as some of our ‘cities’ aren’t cities and some ‘villages’ with a couple of thousand inhabits are ‘cities’.
Basically every town is a city here

Whenever there's a tiny piece of land in the middle of nowhere that some country wants to claim, its almost always about either defense or EEZs. But I have no idea *what* this is about

This brings up a question in my mind: if you had an emergency satellite beacon to alert rescuers to your location, how soon would they be able to get there? WOULD they even get there, and how?

I often imagine I'm the only person on a continent. Had high hopes of the pandemic but that turned out to be another let down.

Can you build a shelter out of the skins, bones and coats of penguins and seals? (Assuming you could even kill a seal”

RRL: "Island in the middle of the ocean 2000km away from civilization"
Introverts: I'll take your entire stock
RRL: "-1 Celsius"
Introverts: Mission failed, we'll get em next time

Man, that foto at 4:46 is from the british expedition to the south pole, that was beaten by the noruegian Amundsen to it. They took the image when they arrived to discover that they where defeated at the "race". Sadly, nobody in that image made it back

There is nothing wrong with leaving a lot of earth empty to be left to nature

Bovet Island is even frightening for the most isolated introverted loner!!!😨

This is the most depressing video I've watched in a while. Being stranded on Bouvet is like being stranded on a distant planet.

Talking about escaping, drawing a massive Mickey mouse in the center of the island would be a good idea, eventually lawyers of Disney will find you and charge you for sure.

*"What if you were stranded on this Island?"*
*"Megatsunami has now decided to swallow the island."*

I had a dream about that ( stranded at french polynesia, worldwide lockdown due to corona so no airplanes flying) so nice you made a video about that 🤣

One question: what about Pitcairn island? Isn't it the most isolate place?

If I were stranded here, well that would be very unlikely. I would have to escape this economic whirlpool known as Florida first.

This is why I carry a satellite communicator with me, because I *do* often find myself in remote locations.

If I was there I would be the only human in 2000km? Sounds perfect.

The ISS could actually be closer than any land mass because it orbits 400km away from earth and if its flight path lands over this island then the nearest person there would be is a ISS operator

With so many trips from Norway coming up, maybe someone should pay a visit 😏

So I suppose that Kerguelen Island is the remotest inhabited land, while Bouvet is the most remote land period.

5:40 well now, that depends on the size of the nuke.