Visuale points to a fascinating visualization published in New Scientist which measures the remoteness of locations on the planet.
[R]emoteness is calculated taking into account how long it takes to
travel by land or water to the nearest place with a least a population
of 50.000 inhabitants.
The research was carried out by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.
The results are visualized in the following way.
The JRC doesn't yet appear to have any information on the project, but it has been picked up by Visual Complexity
Plotted onto a map, the results throw up
surprises. First, less than 10 per cent of the world's land is more
than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city. What's
more, many areas considered remote and inaccessible are not as far from
civilisation as you might think. In the Amazon, for example, extensive
river networks and an increasing number of roads mean that only 20 per
cent of the land is more than two days from a city - around the same
proportion as Canada's Quebec province.
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