The settlement, which is on the island of Tristan da Cunha, is home to around 230 people. It can only be reached after a nearly week-long boat trip departing from Cape Town, South Africa. Sitting on ...
The shipwreck also threatens the lobster fishery that provides a livelihood to one of the world's most isolated communities. The Malta-registered MS Olivia was grounded on Nightingale Island in the ...
Whales, sharks, seals, tens of millions of seabirds, and just under 300 humans inhabit the small islands that make up Tristan da Cunha. A seabird flies over Tristan da Cunha Island. The region is an ...
When a long-dormant volcano spewed molten rock over their windswept Atlantic island in October 1961, the 260 inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha were rescued and brought to never-had-it-so-good Britain.