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Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited location on the planet. Located in the South Atlantic between Africa and South America, Trista de Cunha is 2,430 km from the island of its nearest neighbor, St. Helena, thus making it the most remote place on earth.

The island had a very lonely 270 inhabitants who live on this ex-volcano that rose out of the ocean about a million years ago.

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Tristan da Cunha on 6 February 2013, as seen from the International Space Station

Tristan da Cunha, 19th century

The first permanent settler was Jonathan Lambert, from Salem, Massachusetts, United States, who arrived at the islands in December 1810.[5] He declared the islands his property and named them the Islands of Refreshment. Lambert's rule was short-lived, as he died in 1812.

In 1816 the United Kingdom formally annexed the islands, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa. This is reported to have primarily been a measure to ensure that the French would be unable to use the islands as a base for a rescue operation to free Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on Saint Helena. The occupation also prevented the United States from using Tristan da Cunha as a base, as they had during the War of 1812. (wikipedia)

The main settlement is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (known locally as "The Settlement").


Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

The only religion is Christianity, with denominations of Anglican and Roman Catholic.



The current population is thought to have descended from 15 ancestors, eight males and seven females, who arrived on the island at various times between 1816 and 1908. The male founders originated from Scotland, England, The Netherlands, the United States and Italy and share just eight surnames: Glass (Scottish), Green (Dutch), Hagan (Irish), Lavarello (Italian, a typical Ligurian surname), Patterson (Scottish), Repetto (Italian, another typical Ligurian surname), Rogers (English) and Swain (English). There are 80 families on the island. Tristan da Cunha's isolation has led to an unusual, patois-like dialect of English. (wikipedia)

All Tristan families are farmers, owning their own stock. All land is communally owned. Livestock numbers are strictly controlled to conserve pasture and to prevent better-off families from accumulating wealth. No outsiders are allowed to buy land or settle on Tristan. (wikipedia)

The islands' main source of foreign income is the lobster factory and the sale of postage stamps and coins to overseas collectors. Most people have dual occupations, often working for the local government. Many inhabitants have plots of land (at the patches) on which they grow potatoes. (wikipedia)

simple living gyod sila, with some socialism thrown in.  obviously, they're also xenophobic.