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The 100 Remotest Islands

This is a quiz of the most remote islands on Earth, based on a list I compiled myself through many hours of effort. See my comment for the full methodology. This list has been exhaustively researched and should be compete, but please let me know if you notice any mistakes or have questions.
Some of these are groups of islands (see comment)
Three islands have multiple isolation distances due to atolls or islets that are not always above water
To see which entry includes which islands and for Wikipedia links to all islands, see here
Quiz by Gumbledalf
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Isolation
(km)
Ocean or sea
Island
1844
Atlantic/Southern
Bouvet Island
1844
Atlantic
Tristan da Cunha
1559
Pacific
Easter Island
1284
Atlantic
Ascension
1284
Atlantic
Saint Helena
1277
Indian
Amsterdam Island
1247
Indian/Southern
Kerguelen
1037
Atlantic
Bermuda
1022
Atlantic
Trindade
1017
Pacific
Minamitorishima
957
Indian
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
948
Pacific
Clipperton
937
Indian/Southern
Crozet Islands
937
Indian/Southern
Prince Edward Islands
837
Pacific
Johnston Atoll
810
Pacific
Desventuradas Islands
668 / 680
Pacific
Norfolk Island
672
Philippine Sea
Okinotorishima
653
Pacific
Galapagos Islands
621
Atlantic
Saint Peter and
Saint Paul Rocks
607
Pacific/Southern
Macquarie Island
599
Pacific
Juan Fernández Islands
596-631 / 736
Pacific
Kermadec Islands
580
Southern
Scott Island
569
Atlantic
Cape Verde
567
Pacific
Wake Island
533–543
Tasman Sea
Lord Howe Island
522
Pacific
Bass Islands
519
Indian
Chagos Islands
518
Pacific
Antipodes Island
518
Pacific
Chatham Island
511
Indian
Rodrigues
493
Pacific
Howland Island
489
Pacific
Cocos Island
452
Greenland Sea
Jan Mayen
437
Indian
Tromelin
427
Pacific
Malden Island
419
Pacific
Niue
403
Indian/Southern
Heard Island
403
Southern
South Orkney Islands
390
Pacific
Salas y Gomez
387
Southern
Peter I Island
382
Atlantic
Gough Island
376
Indian
Saint Brandon
366
Pacific
Jarvis Island
364
Atlantic
Falkland Islands
359
Pacific
Palmerston Atoll
355
Pacific
Ducie
353
Pacific
Malpelo
352
Indian
Agaléga
Isolation
(km)
Ocean or sea
Island
350
Pacific
Manihiki
350
Pacific
Penrhyn
346
Coral Sea
Herald's Beacon Islet
344
Indian
Christmas Island
317
Pacific
Rotuma
315
Pacific
Minerva Reefs
305
Pacific
Pukapuka
305
Pacific
Suwarrow
304
Bering Sea
Pribilof Islands
302
Pacific
Kapingamarangi
301
Atlantic
Rockall
289
Mozambique Channel
Europa Island
289
Atlantic
Iceland
288
Philippine Sea
Daitō Islands
288
Pacific
Banaba
288
Pacific
Nauru
287
Pacific
Bokak
284
Pacific
Clarión
284
Pacific
Socorro
279
Pacific
Rocas Alijos
278
Indian
Farquhar Group
278
Pacific
Kiritimati
273
Pacific
Ceva-i-Ra
269
Pacific
Palau
267
Pacific/Southern
Auckland Islands
267
Pacific/Southern
Campbell Islands
264
Bering Sea
Saint Matthew Island
262
Pacific
Kosrae
255
Atlantic
Madeira
250
Atlantic
Faroe Islands
248
Pacific
Guadalupe
247
Pacific
Matthew Island
243
South China Sea
Pratas Islands
232
Atlantic/Southern
Shag Rocks
232
Atlantic/Southern
South Georgia
228
Norwegian Sea
Bear Island
227
Pacific
Caroline Atoll
224
Pacific
Lisianski Island
224
Okhotsk Sea
Iosy
223
Pacific
Palmyra Atoll
220
South China Sea
Scarborough Reef
220
Pacific
Hoorn Islands
220
Pacific
Wallis
219
Atlantic
Flores
218
Indian
Rowley Shoals
217
Pacific
Enewetak
217
Pacific
Ujelang
214
Pacific
Maria Atoll
212
Pacific
Gardner Pinnacles
210
Pacific
Nihoa
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Level 71
Jun 24, 2023
In order to not exclude remote islands with small offshore rocks, I had to use a consistent definition of what counts as an island.

In this quiz, a group of islands is included if the smallest possible distance from the archipelago to the nearest land is at least twice the biggest possible distance from the group's largest island to the group's most outlying island. The given isolation distance is measured from the closest point of land, not the largest island. The largest island is accepted as a type-in.

Naturally, this definition leads to some island groups being excluded due to being too spread out, while some collections of islands typically not considered archipelagos are included. But this is the only way to keep the list objective and not dependent on arbitrary human naming and categorisation. The definition is simple and maps well onto what I would personally consider an archipelago. Feel free to suggest a different workable definition.