Inside ‘The Most Remote Homestead on Earth’ in the Middle of the Pacific

Deep in the South Pacific Ocean, about halfway from the eastern seaboard of Australia and the western coast of South America, there’s a string of remote islands.

In fact, they’re not even technically islands; they’re low-lying atolls.

And one of them – Ahe Atoll – hosts “the most remote homestead on earth.” It houses the Humbert family, three generations of pearl farmers, who made the isolated, tropical landmass their home decades ago with very little (physical) contact to the outside world.