Takes more than 5 days to visit
WHS that take more than 5 days for a return trip, starting from an international airport.
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Aldabra Atoll | Only accessible by ship, cruises take 2 to 3 weeks but also often include one or two other WHS such as Vallee de Mai and Zanzibar | |
Bikini Atoll | visitable by private yachts, or you could join a shipwreck diving tour - nearest international airport is at Majuro | |
Cocos Island | Dive trips take 10 days from/to Puntarenas | |
French Austral Lands and Seas | Starting from Reunion, it takes 28 days round-trip | |
Gough and Inaccessible Islands | 22 days cruise | |
Heard and McDonald Islands | 25 day cruise, if it ever runs | |
Henderson Island | The shortest cruise calling on this Island takes 25 days; it fortunately also stops at Easter Island (a 2nd WHS within 25 days) | |
Macquarie Island | Combined cruise with New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands, 14 days | |
Malpelo | 8 days return by dive boat | |
Ogasawara Islands | Ferry from Tokyo takes (at least) 25 hours, return ferry starts 3 days later, so just over 5 days round trip | |
Phoenix Islands | By private or chartered yachts only. Cruises may be scheduled in the future stopping at Kanton. | |
Sub-Antarctic Islands | Combined cruise with Macquarie Island, 14 days | |
Wrangel Island | Cruises take about 14 days for a roundtrip |
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