Point Nemo is also called the "Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility," meaning it is one of the hardest places on Earth to reach.

Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that ...

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Citations: Campante, Filipe, Quoc-Anh Do. 2014. Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability, and Corruption: Evidence from US States. American Economic Review. (9)2456-2481.

Tucked into the coast of Western Australia, Perth is one of the world's most isolated cities. In fact, it's geographically closer to East Timor and Indonesia than it is to Sydney. But it also ...

Photo: Instagram/decolonizd North Sentinel Island is one of the most isolated places on the planet. And the people who call it home wish to keep it that way. The island's lush swathes of around 60 ...