How are there still islands that we haven’t discovered/explore despite the fact that the satellites in space have been taking constant photos of the earth?

Question

How are there still islands that we haven’t discovered/explore despite the fact that the satellites in space have been taking constant photos of the earth?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

Regions remain unexplored or minimally explored for a number of factors but islands generally combine remoteness / relative difficulty in travel to with minimal reason to do it. If it’s very small and doesn’t seem populated with anything interesting then it’s simply not worth expending the resources to go there.