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This is a list of notable mainland settlements that are inaccessible from the outside by automotive roads (roads built to carry civilian passenger motor vehicles). These settlements may have internal roads or paths but they lack roads connecting them to other places.
Many road-inaccessible settlements are on islands or are very remote from other settlements.
Asia
edit- Andryushkino, Russia
- Anadyr, Russia
- Batagay, Russia
- Batagay-Alyta, Russia
- Belaya Gora, Russia
- Chersky, Russia
- Chokurdakh, Russia
- Egvekinot, Russia
- Khonuu, Russia
- Kyusyur, Russia
- Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russia
- Norilsk, Russia
- Olenyok, Russia
- Olyokminsk, Russia
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
- Saskylakh, Russia
- Tiksi, Russia
- Zhigansk, Russia
- Zyryanka, Russia
Europe
editNorth America
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- Livingston, Guatemala[1]
- Bethel, Alaska, United States
- Churchill, Manitoba, Canada[2]
- Cordova, Alaska, United States
- Dillingham, Alaska, United States
- Halibut Cove, Alaska, United States
- Juneau, Alaska, United States[3]
- King Salmon, Alaska, United States
- Nome, Alaska, United States
- Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada
- Old Crow, Yukon, Canada
- Point Hope, Alaska, United States
- Powell River, British Columbia, Canada
- Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
- Supai, Arizona in the Grand Canyon, United States
- Tyonek, Alaska, United States
- Unalakleet, Alaska, United States
- Yakutat, Alaska, United States
- Utqiaġvik, Alaska, United States[4]
Oceania
edit- Bar Point, New South Wales, Australia[5]
- Berowra Creek, New South Wales, Australia
- Coasters Retreat, New South Wales, Australia
- Currawong Beach, New South Wales, Australia
- Elvina Bay, New South Wales, Australia
- Fishermans Point, New South Wales, Australia[1]
- Great Mackerel Beach, New South Wales, Australia
- Little Wobby, New South Wales, Australia[6]
- Lovett Bay, New South Wales, Australia
- McCarrs Creek, New South Wales, Australia
- Melaleuca, Tasmania, Australia[7]
- Milsons Passage, New South Wales, Australia
- Morning Bay, New South Wales, Australia
- Teewah, Queensland, Australia (only accessible via offroad driving on a beach)
- Tufi, Oro, Papua New Guinea
- Wondabyne, New South Wales, Australia[8]
South America
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Ten amazing places you can only reach by boat". 29 June 2018.
- ^
Howard Witt (8 November 1987). "Feed This Town's Kitty, But Not The Bears". Chicago Tribune. Churchill, Manitoba. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
Man, too, has intermittently found the rocky, wind-blasted bit of coast a fit place to settle: The Inuit stayed here in prehistory, European explorers in the early 17th Century and the Hudson's Bay Co. a hundred years after that. The railroad reached the area in the 1930s, to supply a grain port;
- ^ "Ten amazing places you can only reach by boat". 29 June 2018.
- ^ "This tiny US town is suddenly on the radar". 5 July 2019.
- ^ "Bar Point | About". BPCA. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ^ "New South Wales For Everyone: Little Wobby". australiaforeveryone.com.au. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ^ "Visiting Southwest National Park | Discover Tasmania". www.discovertasmania.com.au. 2022-05-04. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ^ Noone, Richard (April 13, 2015). "Wondabyne NSW: The only train station in Australia inaccessible by road". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved July 9, 2023.