15 Most Unexplored Places on Earth

despite today's modern age there are still many places on our planet that we almost know nothing about places that people don't care to go here are the top 15 most unexplored places on earth number 15 north sentinel island while most of the world's tribes have been contacted in some way north sentinel island remains nearly untouched by anyone but the island's indigenous people that's because ever since explorers first tried to interact with the islanders back in 1867 they have generally been very hostile with some incidents even going so far as to lead to the deaths of those involved therefore in order to protect the people on both sides india passed the anandam and nicobar islands protection of aboriginal tribes act in 1956 which has effectively banned anyone from visiting the island without express government permission in order to enforce this the indian navy patrols the island's waters and can prosecute anyone who decides to go against this ban as a result despite the island likely having a lot to offer it has remained untouched and unexplored by westerners for centuries 14. muchucci mountains are anything but easy pickings for adventurers and muchu chich is certainly not an exception that's because despite the fact that it has some competition from other larger slopes it currently holds the title as the tallest unclimbed mountain in the world it's perfectly legal to climb now the primary reason behind this is that mutuchish is both difficult to access and located in a remote area meaning that very few have even attempted to climb the mountain to make matters worse at only 7 453 meters tall it's significantly shorter than some of its contemporaries making it difficult for many explorers to justify climbing it when there are larger yet easier to climb slopes nearby and while the three-member czech expedition announced that they would try to climb the mountain in august of 2020 it remains to be determined if muchu cheese will remain unexplored or become truly charted territory for much longer number 13. papua new guinea while papua new guinea may be an island nation of about 9 million people it turns out that much of the country is still unexplored by all but the country's indigenous groups that's because the island is full of dense rainforests and massive mountains that make it nearly impossible to traverse with this reality being aided by the fact that the island's near complete lack of infrastructure and extreme lack of safety in urban areas makes it less than an ideal place for researchers to set up shop regardless when researchers do explore the island they almost always make some sort of discovery as between 1998 and 2008 alone there were a total of 1060 new species found on new guinea and its surrounding islands as a result while the country may not be in the best of shape it is certainly somewhere worth visiting if you'd like to see some truly impressive flora and fauna number twelve singing in short singing de bamaraha is easily one of the strangest sites in the world located in the milwaukee region of northwestern madagascar it's a 1520 square kilometer plateau of karstic rocks which were created thanks to rainwater eroding away at already existing limestone deposits this has made a forest of dense and tall stones that are nearly impossible to traverse making it extremely hard for researchers to survey the area when you then further consider that singidebemaraha is an area that is home to thousands of endemic species that cannot be found anywhere else in the world it's clear that it's a shame that scientists are having a hard time finding them all 11. devon island there are many areas on our planet that are uninhabited but devon island stands apart for being the largest uninhabited island in the world located in canada's far north devon island has been called mars on earth by many researchers as its desert setting and harsh climate is very similar to the conditions on mars as a result the island's barren terrain freezing temperatures isolation and remoteness have made it a prime spot for nasa researchers to test how a settlement on mars could potentially function with a small permanent research station being present on devon island in order to carry out various experiments however considering that the island is practically located in the middle of nowhere no matter how much it looks like mars we don't expect too many people to come explore the island anytime soon number 10 genkar pensam bhutan although gankar pensoum is surrounded by a much larger himalayan cousin such as mount everest and k2 it holds the distinction of being the world's highest unclimbed mountain although its location is somewhat disputed so disputed in fact that the first british expedition to the mountain in 1922 couldn't even find it today it's generally agreed upon that it's located entirely within the country of bhutan the measurements seem to indicate that its peak is located at an elevation of 7570 meters ranking it as the 40th largest mountain in the world and while it is likely not an extremely hard climb ever since 1994 the climbing of mountains in bhutan that are higher than 6 000 meters has been prohibited out of respect for local spiritual beliefs as it's thought that the deities live atop of high mountains such as gengar pensam as a result unless those regulations change it will likely retain its title as an unexplored wonder for years to come number nine the marianas trench while the world's oceans are a lot less charted than many would imagine the marianas trench stands apart for perhaps being one of the most mysterious areas out there that's because its maximum depth of about 10 984 meters makes it the deepest trench in the world with it being so deep that if mount everest were to be dropped inside of it its peak would still be two kilometers underwater as a result the trench experiences extremely heavy pressure making exploratory dives down to the bottom of it near impossible however despite the challenges a total of four manned and three unmanned descents have been achieved but the first man descent made by the swiss designed italian-built and united states navy owned submarine trieste by oceanographers don walsh and jacques picard in 1960 and the first unmanned descent being made by remotely operated underwater vehicle known as the caico in 1996 as a result to date we've been able to get a very preliminary understanding on the deep sea creatures and rare minerals located within the trench we are constantly adding more people to the top fives production team to bring you all the best content be sure to subscribe with notifications on and hit the like button number eight surtsey island almost islands on earth have been around for millions if not billions of years surtsey island stands apart for being younger than some of the people watching this video that's because surtsey which is located off the southern coast of iceland only came to be after an underwater volcanic eruption that occurred 130 meters below sea level began to form it in november of 1963 from there grew to a maximum size of 2.7 square kilometers with the surface area now being closer to 1.3 square kilometers thanks to erosion now while such a small island theoretically shouldn't all be that hard to explore the icelandic government has made it sure that it's near impossible to enter it by making it strictly off-limits to the public with only one small research station and the base of an unconstructed lighthouse being present to this day as a result of these protections the island has been able to thrive naturally and has organically developed its own ecosystem consisting of plants birds insects and seals as a result despite it being the subject of a lot of research it has technically been unexplored by humans for the entirety of its existence number seven the northern forest complex myanmar while many additions to this list are unexplored due to their physical geography myanmar's northern forest complex is largely unexplored for political reasons that's because the country has been going through the longest civil war in history as the conflict began in 1948 when myanmar first became independent as to an extent still raging to this day as a result the northern forest complex which is located in the extreme north of the country along the border with indian and china is an approximately thirty one thousand square kilometer tract of land that has remained almost completely uninhabited now it is home to a host of interesting creatures such as tigers bears elephants and hundreds of bird species and as such the scientific community has been eyeing the region for years however until the political situation becomes a little more stable and the government recognizes the need to allow research in these areas it is likely that they will continue to be unable to explore it for the foreseeable future number six the southern namib desert namibia while the sahara may take the top spot for being the most well-known desert in africa the southern namib stands apart from being one of the oldest having been around for upwards of 80 million years the nabib desert stretches for about 2000 kilometers between the countries of angola namibia and south africa and due to the near complete lack of vegetation it is mostly uninhabited however the southern nabe desert which has been described as largely unexplored by the world wildlife fund stands apart due to it consisting of a vast dune sea with some of the tallest and most spectacular dunes in the world with said dunes ranging in color from pink to vivid orange and often measuring in and over 300 meters high as such despite the fact that the complexity and regularity of the patterns in its dune sea are stunning they remain poorly understood to this day with more exploration and research necessary in order to truly understand them but best of all due to the desert having the further distinction of having many endemic species due to its age the area really does have the potential to be a researcher's paradise number five valle de giovari brazil although brazil may be the land that was conquered long ago by the portuguese there are some areas of the country that are so remote that almost no one outside of the region's indigenous communities have ever set foot inside them the largest of these is valedo jovari which is near a forested region that is located in the northwest corner of the country near the borders with bolivia and peru encompassing an area of about 85 000 square kilometers the region is larger than the country of austria and is home to approximately 3 000 indigenous people and the region stands apart for having the greatest concentration of isolated groups in the world with the brazilian government going so far as to forbid outsiders from entering this area contrary to what you may think this mandate is very easy to enforce the area is not only extremely remote but also inaccessible by nearly all forms of transportation in particular the region does not experience a dry season so the rise of the amazon river and the likely possibility of floods make the place a dangerous area for any kind of exploration and an absolutely unsuitable area for any kind of permanent habitation the area is also home to many dangerous animals as the swamp-like nature of the region makes it a breeding ground for alligators and mosquitoes when you then further consider that any attempts to contact the indigenous tribes in the region have frequently been met with violence it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the nomadic indigenous groups located in the valladovari have been left largely undisturbed for most of their existence number four sundoon cave vietnam although the entire surface area of the earth has already been mapped by satellites the same does not hold true for our planet's underground grottoes as such a vietnamese lager by the name of ho khan made an amazing discovery when he first discovered the cave while searching for aloe in 1991 but it wasn't until 2009 that the area was properly surveyed by british and vietnamese authorities now the reason why it is so spectacular is because it holds the distinction of being the world's largest natural cave having been formed out of limestone between two to five million years ago in fact due to it coming in at a height of about 200 meters a width of about 150 meters and a length of about nine kilometers this cavern is so large that it can fit an entire new york city block inside of it including its skyscrapers as such it should come as no surprise this cave is full of geological wonders as it has stalagmites that often reach lengths of 70 meters and a 90 meter calcite barrier that has been coined as the great wall of vietnam yet what really makes seongdong spectacular are the jungles found within its depths see the cave is so large that it has its very own contained ecosystem and due to millions of years of secluded evolution it has its own endemic plants monkeys flying foxes frogs insects and hairs that are found nowhere else in the world as a result this cave is one of the most biologically unique places in the world therefore should also come as no surprise that there's still a lot left to explore in the cave after all it wasn't until mid 2019 that researchers found a 1.6 million cubic meter underground river to this day more species and more outcroppings of the cave are still being discovered best of all if you'd like to take a glimpse you can sign up to be one of the just 1 000 people per year permitted to enter however at a price of 3 000 bucks for just one ticket it certainly will set you back quite a bit number three lake vostok antarctica typically speaking the lake is located above ground but lake vostok which is located in antarctica stands apart due to it being the world's largest subglacial lake this means that although it's located underneath glacial ice the water in the lake is actually liquid however this water isn't like your typical h2o that's because the ice that covers it has kept it untouched for the past 15 million years meaning in that time frame the lake itself has never received light and has never been in contact with the atmosphere yet despite this seclusion it seems that there may be microbial life inside the lake even though of the high pressure the constant cold low nutrient input potentially high oxygen concentration and absence of sunlight all make for extremely harsh living conditions now the fact that the lake is sub-glacial is what has essentially caused it to remain unexplored you see despite that fact that it was first discovered back in the late 1950s or early 1960s by russian antarctic research team it has been difficult to actually test the water underneath the glacier as it's located about 4 000 meters under the surface of the ice to make matters worse there's a lot of controversy as to whether it's environmentally ethical to drill into the lake as not only could this jeopardize its untouched position but the anti-freeze that would have to be used to drill all the way down would undoubtedly contaminate the water and make any research findings from the water sample takes inconclusive as a result despite the interest certainly being there to explore lake vostok further it will likely remain unexplored for their foreseeable future number two the darian gap panama colombia as far as unexplored places go few are as infamous as the darian gap found between panama and colombia it's largely a watershed forest and mountain area that's about 106 kilometers long and 80 kilometers wide and it has gained notoriety not only for being largely unexplored but more importantly for being the buffer that makes it impossible for the pan-american highway to truly connect all of the americas as a result it's been the bane of travelers trying to complete this journey they must pay to have their car transported by a shipping container across the gulf of darien while they take a plane between panama and colombia due to this often costing upwards of ten thousand dollars even if a shipping container is shared it surely has made this trip a lot less feasible for the average road tripper however that doesn't mean that attempts to traverse the gap haven't been made you see in 1971 both panama and colombia tried to continue building the road through the gap with the help of u.s funds however due to environmentalist protesting that this would destroy the area's biodiversity the plans were halted in 1974 and while some other attempts have been made to resurrect the idea many locals have continued to oppose development because this would also lead to an increase in transmission of diseases across borders likely lead to the destruction of many local indigenous cultures as a result governments and surveyors have left the area alone for the past few decades yet if you are hell-bent on traversing the gap it is possible to do so using an off-road vehicle however this is a lot more difficult than you might imagine as it requires cutting down swaths of vegetation and often takes upwards of two to three years to complete while the occasional person has made headlines by walking through it or using a motorcycle to drive across considering that the area has also been the location of extensive power military activity and violence in recent years we think it may be best that the area remain unexplored for the time being number one birth typically speaking while geographical limits may make somewhere hard to reach even the most remote of locations have been claimed by at least one of the world's governments however beer tawheel stands apart for being the only habitable area on the planet that is not claimed by any nation you see beer tell whether stands on the border of egypt and sudan and due to the contradictory statements of the british government when setting up the borders in 1899 and 1902 there was now a dispute between the two countries in which they are both vying for a piece of land known as the halaib triangle however they are both not claiming bir tawil as international law mandates that to claim ownership of one would automatically mean that they're renouncing ownership of the other therefore beer tawil currently sits as an uninhabited and practically unexplored territory that may be forever in a state of limbo however despite its precarious position there have still been some people out there who have tried to claim beer tawil as their own in particular these people hope to set up beer tawil as a micro nation in which they are the dictator of and will sometimes even visit in order to plant a flag and assert their authority yet due to the fact that not a single one has gotten any type of international recognition and goes without saying that this is a practice not taken seriously by almost everyone watch our nature playlist for more top 15 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