The combination of field-tunable bandgap, topological edge states, and valleys in the band structure, makes insulating bilayer graphene a unique localized system, where the scaling laws of dimensionless conductance g remain largely unexplored. Here we show that the relative fluctuations in ln g with the varying chemical potential, in strongly insulating bilayer graphene (BLG) decay nearly logarithmically for channel length up to L/ξ ≈ 20, where ξ is the localization length. This 'marginal' self-averaging, and the corresponding dependence of ln g on L, suggest that transport in strongly gapped BLG occurs along strictly one-dimensional channels, where ξ ≈ 0.5±0.1 µm was found to be much longer than that expected from the bulk bandgap. Our experiment reveals a nontrivial localization mechanism in gapped BLG, governed by transport along robust edge modes.
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