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.

The view from Queen Mary's peak on the isolated island of Tristan da Cunha. Photo: Leo Genin/Creative Commons Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook ...

“You don’t have to worry about being mugged.” I’m on Tristan da Cunha, a British outpost in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, roughly halfway between Buenos Aires ...

Now, the tiny outpost of Tristan da Cunha is seeking the help of architects and designers the world over to secure its future well into the 21st century. With the help of the Royal Institute of ...

How about one of the most remote places on Earth? Tristan da Cunha, a group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, is the most isolated inhabited archipelago on the planet, meaning it is ...

The inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha, which sits in the remote waters of the South Atlantic, are insulated from the coronavirus by an immense moat. James Glass, the Chief Islander, on the flanks of ...

Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Today, it's home to a tiny and extremely isolated farming community.

Tristan da Cunha sits over 2,000 km from the nearest settlement - farther than Antarctica's outposts. British settlers first established it in the early 19th century, defying geography and isolation.

The island population of Tristan da Cunha has a well-documented genealogy that dates to its first permanent settlement in 1816. The current population is thought to have descended from only seven ...

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 ...

Tristan Da Cunha’s terrain is so harsh, it is easier to access the opposite side of the island by boat than to travel overland by foot (Credit: Andy Schofield). On July 19, 2021, 10 days after leaving ...

Located in the South Atlantic, directly between Cape Town in South Africa and Buenos Aires in Argentina, the island of ...