Tristan da Cunha Island
Filed Under (Africa) by admin on 24-09-2009
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Tristan da Cunha is the world’s most isolated inhabited island.
Around 270 people (the population does not vary much over the years) make a living on the only inhabited island of four essentially from growing potatoes and exporting crayfish tails.
There’s no jetty or proper harbor, landing is done through the surf by longboat and it isn’t unknown for a visiting cruise ship to not be able to land any passengers at all for days.
If you’d like to know more about the islands then I suggest this book. Written by a man who was Governor of the islands for three years in, I think it was, the 1960s. It’s a good overview of both what life is like (or at least was those few short decades ago) and of the history of the settlement. Be warned though, while interesting, it’s not about to win any literary awards.
