# What's the furthest you have ever been away from all other humans? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-you-have-ever-been-away-from-all-other-humans/1010920 "2024-11-28T21:08:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-you-have-ever-been-away-from-all-other-humans/1010920/2 "2024-11-28T21:37:16Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > The UK is pretty densely populated Australia isn’t; and coming from the Bush (not the Outback’s much more expansive options) the possibilities are both more frequent and of greater scale. Doing some chores on one of the family farms when the rest of the family were off the property would have put an exclusion zone of 10-12km, assuming the neighbours were also home. But for an assured sense of isolation, (as I have posted before) when travelling home one route was via Steam Plains Road where a one point you had a 360 degree view of the horizon without seeing any sentinent life-form, man-made structure, hill or hollow or tree for that matter. So that would be about 7km and likely close to the maximum assured distance possible. > [@So, am I the only one geographical agoraphobia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-am-i-the-only-one-geographical-agoraphobia/959010/7): > > Not far from the property I grew up on, in the Riverina of NSW, when travelling NE you can drive past a property called “Steam Plains” about 110,000 acres which is fairly typical for the area. [[image] ](https://i.ibb.co/2MGqDDR/Steam-Plains-V2.jpg)[[image] ](https://i.ibb.co/NtsBrZj/Steam-Plains-V1.jpg) Now there is a spot on the trip, where unlike the 2nd pic (though it gives some sense of the vista which is usually not that green), you can see to the horizon for 360 degrees without your line of sight being interrup… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-furthest-you-have-ever-been-away-from-all-other-humans/1010920)._