Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic, has a
population of fewer than 300 people and its neighbors are more than
1,000 miles away. It can only be reached by boat on a 7 day voyage.
The island has around 1,000 acres of poor grazing land for 300 cattle and 500 sheep, and its biggest crop is potatoes.
Tristan da Cunha (
), colloquially
Tristan, is both a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) from the nearest inhabited land, Saint Helena, and 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) from the nearest continental land, South Africa. It is 3,360 kilometers (2,090 mi) from South America.
The territory consists of the main island, Tristan da Cunha, which has a
north–south length of 11.27 kilometers (7.00 mi) and an area of 98
square kilometers (38 sq mi), and the smaller, uninhabited Nightingale Islands and the wildlife reserves of Inaccessible and Gough islands. As of January 2017, the main island has 262 permanent inhabitants. The other islands are uninhabited, except for the personnel of a weather station on Gough Island.
Tristan da Cunha is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. This includes Saint Helena and near-equatorial Ascension Island, some 3,730 kilometers (2,318 mi) to the north of Tristan.
