What land would you suggest for an exile punishment of a person who ruined your country?
Definitely as far-off as could be possible on our planet! As it is not possible to send him into space but the location should be the remotest, inhabited island on our planet.
You may name many distant places, but all of them will be uninhabited, mostly barren and boring. But the life in this island is established in a very British way, so it would become difficult for punished man to mess it up so easily, one hopes.
Tristan da Cunha - the loneliest place on Planet
Do you know, what was the first step British took after sending Napoleon to St. Helena? Yes, they knew that the French will attempt to rescue him; therefore they annexed the closest chain of islands to keep them from doing so.
After all, who wouldn’t cross just 2430-km over rough and uncongenial seas with a mission to take back the Emperor himself? Yes, you got it, these islands of Tristan Da Cunha closest neighboring landmass of the island of St. Helena are just 2430-km aside.
The island is too small to be indicated on maps that’s why cartographers do not put it on their maps. As it is situated in the South Atlantic Ocean between African and South American continent, this particular location of this volcanic outcropping land honored it for being the remotest inhabited island on our earth and this comparison doesn’t exclude Antarctica and the North Pole.
One of the islands in this island group is said to be “Inaccessible”. As this family lives with the motto: “Our faith is our strength”
Capital: Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
Language: English.
Population: not more than 300 people.
Religions: Christianity – Anglican & Roman Catholic
Currency: Pound Sterling – GBP
Tristan Da Cunha is a homeland of 270 people cut off from rest of the world. Their economy is based on fishing. The weather is sub-tropical but it gets little bit variation in its temperature in different seasons.
If there were more cultivable land then it would have become a pleasant place to live but the only plain land is there at the northwestern portion of the island. The whole rest is comprised of mountains and rocks.
The archipelago is comprised of huge volcanic formations which erupted out of the South Atlantic Ocean approximately one million years ago. This group of islands is located closely adjacent to the crater of the very active volcano!
Almost fifty years ago, in 1961 a cone near this town, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, started erupting. It was sign of danger; entire community was evacuated to England. Two years later, a research was made and it was felt that damage was not severe, so the residents were asked to go back their homeland.
People living there face the full wrath of Atlantic storms many times in history: once the heavy blows of wind having speed of almost 190-km/h were so thrusting that they drove the grazing cattle from the fields into the sea. It is awesome to look out of window seeing deplorably mooing bovines sailing past and going in the waves.
Refreshment – away from all maddening crowds
Islands of Refreshment, this name today we know was given by a self-proclaimed ruler Jonathan Lambert. He called them with this name in 1811.
Lambert announced himself sovereign and sole possessor of these groups of islands. However, he ruled for a short time, as he drowned deep while enjoying fishing just one year after this declaration.
And the “refreshments” are here – Genuine Tristan Lobster Tails – these are the tastiest in the world!
Today this island is having a convenience store, a radio station which broadcasts the World Service 4 days each week, a little restaurant, a video-shop and a swimming-pool.
Tristan has been linked to the rest of the world by a telephone and a fax provided in the Administrator’s office. It is also visited by the RMS St. Helena once in the year as you might know that it is the world’s only mail ship.
The ship brings lot of other stuff also besides simply carrying mail. This includes canned food, videos, books, magazines and medical items. If you are the occasional visitor you can also board this ship.
Nobody knows the term of “Unemployment” here on Tristan. Each boy and girl is guaranteed to receive job on leaving school; if positions are not vacant they are specially created for them.
Recently, girls are getting keener to continue their education (especially at St. Helena) and young girls are forming more superior intellectual elite on this island as compared to males.
Here comes another native of these lands: yellow-nosed albatross chick
You know this character very well – Northern rock-hopper penguin. You loved it in an animated movie “Surf’s Up” some years ago. More than 90% of its world population lives here on Tristan.
Here is one more place for an intrepid explorer of “abandoned & haunted places” like you.
- Abandoned and grounded oil rig!
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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
Your information is VERY out of date
Your pictures are QUITE out of date
Your RMS St. Helena information is WAY out of date
The SA Aghulas is the main supply ship, Sept … Returns tp Capetown Oct every year
Thanks for pointing out the mistakes, can you please help edit this article?