Tristan da Cunha Island

Tristan da Cunha: the World's remotest island

Tristan da Cunha is the world’s most isolated inhabited island.

Around 270 people (the population does not vary much over the years) make a living on the only inhabited island of four essentially from growing potatoes and exporting crayfish tails.

There’s no jetty or proper harbor, landing is done through the surf by longboat and it isn’t unknown for a visiting cruise ship to not be able to land any passengers at all for days.

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