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 ...

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’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 ...

In a TikTok, content creator Tiana educates her followers about the far flung reaches of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, which is the only settlement on the volcanic island of Tristan da Cunha in ...

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.

There's one police cell and one police officer on the island of Tristan da Cunha. And that's just plenty. After all, it's not like anyone can escape - it's the world's most remote inhabited island ...

Tristán Da Cunha tiene un policía, un bar, un almacén y 236 residentes estables que viven sobre el eje de un volcán activo, el “1961″, bautizado así en alusión al año de su última ...

“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 ...