What is the world's most remote island from any land?

Bouvet Island is generally regarded as the world's most remote island from other land.

This uninhabited Norwegian dependency lies in the South Atlantic Ocean, far from major population centers and shipping routes. Its nearest land is Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, roughly 1,700 kilometers away. Other isolated islands are also thousands of kilometers distant, including Gough Island and the South Sandwich Islands.

Bouvet Island is the exposed summit of an inactive shield volcano on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. About 93 percent of its roughly 49-square-kilometer area is covered by glacier, and steep cliffs and rough seas make landing exceptionally difficult. Nyrøysa, a rockslide-created coastal platform, is one of the few practical landing sites.

The island is uninhabited, protected as a nature reserve, and has no permanent settlement. That detail separates it from Tristan da Cunha, which is often called the world's most remote inhabited island. Easter Island can also appear in discussions of remoteness, but those comparisons concern inhabited islands or different definitions of nearest land.