If you truly want to get away from it all Bouvet Island is the place to be - because it's the most remote island in the world. This 19-square-mile chunk of wind-ravaged rock and ice lies 1,600 ...

No wonder sailors call Bouvet the world's most remote island; no wonder writers and science fiction movie-makers keep using it in their storylines.

An island dubbed the world's 'lonliest' is almost 1,500 miles away from human life and has an eerie past dating back decades. The uninhabited Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean sits halfway ...

MEXICO CITY - Mexican officials said ferries and cruise ships may soon be visiting the former Isla Marias prison, after the last island penal colony in the Americas was closed and turned into an ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador ...