The best uninhabited island in the world?

If you want to settle on an uninhabited island with the approval of a government, you may be able to do that in the Kermadec Islands, a group of small, sub-tropical islands to the North of New Zealand. The Kermadec group of islands, a possession of New Zealand, are mountainous, fertile, forested, with a mild climate (temperature range 50 degrees to 80 degfrees F) and with ample but moderate rainfall.

Of the uninhabited Kermadecs, Macauley island (to the South of Raoul island, which has ten persons at a New Zealand weather station), sounds the most hopeful - it is 1.2 square miles (764 acres) in area, and settlers have lived there (or on its smaller neighbour Curtis) from time to time in the past since the 19th century. It is possible that the New Zealand governent could be persuaded to allow Western immigrants to settle legally in the Kermadecs - their main drawback being the lack of sheltered anchorages whuch makes landing on these islands impossible in bad weather - but the same is true of Pitcairn Island which has been inhabited for almost 200 years. Incidentally, the population at Pitcairn is falling. They can now barely muster enough able-bodied men to man the boats. So it seems that Pitcairn itself may one day be entirely abandoned, and thus become available - although nominally owned by Britain; and administered by New Zealand at a 3,000 mile distance.