List of mainland settlements that are inaccessible by road

Last updated

Iquitos, Peru, the largest mainland settlement in the world inaccessible by road Iquitos-2012-plaza.jpg
Iquitos, Peru, the largest mainland settlement in the world inaccessible by road

This is a list of notable mainland settlements that are inaccessible from the outside by automotive roads (roads built to carry civilian passenger motor vehicles). These settlements may have internal roads or paths but they lack roads connecting them to other places.

Contents

Many road-inaccessible settlements are on islands or are very remote from other settlements. The largest is Iquitos, Peru. [1]

Asia

Nikolaevsk town centre Nikolaevsk town centre - panoramio.jpg
Nikolaevsk town centre
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia Tri vulkana.JPG
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

Europe

Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland in 2018 Ittoqqortoormiit in 2018 (Flickr).jpg
Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland in 2018

North America

Juneau, Alaska Downtown Juneau and Douglas Island.jpg
Juneau, Alaska

Oceania

South America

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Iquitos travel". Lonely Planet.
  2. ↑ Bruni, Frank (9 February 2004). "Civita di Bagnoregio Journal; A Town Forever on the Brink of Death Wants Visitors". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ "The small Italian village that can't be reached by car". BBC Reel.
  4. ↑ Attwooll, Jolyon (1 September 2010). "Norway's mountains: the perfect break". The Telegraph.
  5. ↑ McKelvie, Robin (19 August 2022). "A two-day Highlands walk to Britain's most remote pub: the Old Forge, Knoydart". The Guardian.
  6. ↑ "Photographing one of the most remote places on Earth". www.bbc.com. 10 January 2026.
  7. ↑ Howard Witt (8 November 1987). "Feed This Town's Kitty, But Not The Bears". The Chicago Tribune . Churchill, Manitoba. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2012. Man, too, has intermittently found the rocky, wind-blasted bit of coast a fit place to settle: The Inuit stayed here in prehistory, European explorers in the early 17th Century and the Hudson's Bay Co. a hundred years after that. The railroad reached the area in the 1930s, to supply a grain port;
  8. 1 2 3 "Ten amazing places you can only reach by boat". 29 June 2018.
  9. ↑ "Page 119, "San Dionisio del Mar a Pueblo Viejo se realiza a través de lanchas." (The route from San Dionisio del Mar to Pueblo Viejo is done via boats.)" (PDF). 2022–2024.
  10. ↑ "The tiny village hidden inside the Grand Canyon". www.bbc.com. 23 February 2018.
  11. ↑ "This tiny US town is suddenly on the radar". 5 July 2019.
  12. ↑ "Bar Point | About". BPCA. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  13. ↑ "New South Wales For Everyone: Little Wobby". australiaforeveryone.com.au. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  14. ↑ "Visiting Southwest National Park | Discover Tasmania". discovertasmania.com.au. 4 May 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  15. ↑ Noone, Richard (13 April 2015). "Wondabyne NSW: The only train station in Australia inaccessible by road". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.