Just got back from Johannesburg and Kruger Park. The most remote place I’ve been was eastern Oregon.
The OP was opining about remote places to go so here is one that I found online several months ago.
Tristan da Cunha
South Georgia. Four days travel each way from the Falkland Islands. Cost me a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label for the skipper, so pretty economical travelling.
Hawaii? :rolleyes:
Tibet. When I first went in 1985 in winter, got to a place that had never been visited by westerners after a 5 day bus ride from the nearest city with an airport. From there it was a 1/2 day drive and crossed the river by means of a pully suspended by a cable. Then it was a 2 day hike to the next road (and a 4 day bus bus ride back to a city with an airport). Now the road has been built, a cell phone works along most of that route and there is the odd internet cafe.
When back backing in the Aba and Ganzi Tibetan autonomous regions of Sichuan province, I hiked 3 days solo without seeing another person. There were rude trails so it wasn’t pure wilderness. I could have done that too, but there were no maps available at the time (now you can get satellite maps). Now one can take some pretty wild horse trips led by native guides to really remote and uninhabited areas that see a few pilgrims a year.
I also did a horse trip with a group of tibetan monks out into the grasslands. Lessee, that was a 2 day bus ride from a major city, 2 day hike, then 2 day horse ride. That was just the edge of the grasslands. There was probably 500 miles of more or less wilderness to get through if I went west or northwest. The grasslands had scattered camps with maybe 20 people in an extended unit. Then a half or full day horse ride to the next camp.
Anywhere from the Russian Far East, through Mongolia and Tibet over the Himalaya’s and then west through the central asia states is pretty dang remote and sparsely populated. The mountain country is really beautiful.
China Guy, you win. 
The town of Mulsdorf in the former East Germany, where my mother was born, is twelve kilometers from the nearest paved road. It did not have telephone service prior to 1995. I have spent several months of my life there, and I was there when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Last summer during a solo hike in the Grand Tetons, I figured that I was probably twenty miles from the nearest human being. I hope to beat that figure at some point during my upcoming summer in Alaska.
The furthest I’ve ever been from where I was born (San Francisco) would be the Golan Heights, I guess, right up at the Israel/Syria border.
The most remote place…well, I’ve driven across the US, and there are some real middle-of-nowhere places in the middle of North America. I drove the length of Wyoming, and was totally fascinated with the tiny tiny towns nowhere near anything else. But now that I think about it, the place that seemed the most desolate was in Arizona, at the huge Navajo reservation north of the Grand Canyon. I think it was the scenery that did it. There were these giant gorges in the ground, coming out from the canyon, I guess, and there was absolutely nothing else out there. Huge empty sky, crazy alien landscape, no other cars on the freeway…it was a little scary, actually.
The furthest I’ve ever been from my birthplace in Cleveland, OH was Isfahan, Iran. I lived there for nearly two years as a wee lad.
The most remote place I’ve been is smack dab in the middle of Algonquin Provoncial Park in Canada. Didn’t see another living soul for a week.
Furthest north: London
Furthest east: Vienna
Furthest south: Martinique
Furthest west: Hawaii
Most remote: On the island of Martinique: I had taken a wrong turn and wound up on a single-lane back road winding through a chain of steep mountains. It was a cliff-on-one-side-shear-drop-on-the-other-side road with constant hairpin curves. I don’t know what would have happened had another vehicle come the other way, there wasn’t room to pass. The scenery was breathtakingly gorgeous (mountains, valleys, waterfalls, rainbows), but I didn’t dare stop to take pictures; it was already late afternoon, I had no idea where I was, and I was afraid of still being lost when it got dark. I eventually wound up on a road I recognized.
I’d love to return to Martinique some day, if only for a more leisurely exploration of that road.
The furthest I’ve been from home is Sydney, Australia, to visit my grandparents.
As for remote, I think the farthest I’ve been from civilization was probably backpacking in the La Garita or Snowmass Wilderness areas in Colorado. We went for 2 5-day trips and never saw another (human) soul. Just a lot of cows.
Another possibility is when we chartered a sailboat in the Bahamas and were able to check out some of the isolated islands.
Is it not said that Perth, Western Australia, is the “most remote” city in the world?
My own personal bests are:
North: Hermaness, Unst, Shetland, UK
South: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
East: possibly Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
West: Memphis, Tennessee, USA.