Our series on Remote Islands takes us to Scott Island, one of the Earth's most inaccessible places.
Located in the Southern Ocean, near the 180° meridian, Scott Island is about 300 nautical miles from Antarctica and equally distant from the Balleny Islands. It is part of the Ross Dependency, New Zealand's Antarctic claim. Its total landmass is less than 0.05 square km.
Scott Island is one of the most recently discovered lands on Earth, being first sighted in 1902. Landings on the island have been extremely rare.
Scott Island
