Britain may be one of the world's favorite travel destinations, but way out to the southwest of the English mainland lies a community so remote few Britons could tell you anything about it. The Scilly Isles are an archipelago of rocky protrusions in the Atlantic Ocean 28mi (45km) off the coast of Land's End, Cornwall. Only 2,000 hardy folk live in the Scillies year-round, 1,700 of whom are on St Mary's-the only island with roads. You can forget about renting a car here, and a GPS (Global Positioning System)/ satellite navigation unit is hardly necessary: even St Mary's has a mere 8mi (13km) of paved roads.
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