The island of Tristan da Cunha is unique. It is the most remote inhabited island on earth. The shores of the African mainland are 2700 kilometers from it. And the closest neighbors are only on about. Helena, on the same sparsely populated, but more than 2 thousand kilometers to them. There is no airport here, and if you miss a ship to the mainland, you will have to wait several months.
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0:00 Introduction
0:28 Discovery story
2:06 Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
2:42 Queen Mary's Peak
4:10 Economy of the island
5:37 Lobsters and tourism
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In fact, Tristan da Cunha is an archipelago that bears the name of the only inhabited island. The island belongs to the UK, but is not part of it. Tristan da Cunha is a piece of land with an area of less than a hundred square kilometers, in fact, the top of a volcano that emerged from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean a million years ago. Almost the entire territory of the island is occupied by a dormant volcano, rocks, ravines, and only in the northwest has nature created a small and relatively flat plain.
The island was named after the Portuguese discoverer. The navigator Tristan da Cunha discovered the archipelago back in 1506 and named it after himself, but he did not land on the shore. The first permanent resident appeared here only three centuries later, in 1810, and it was, oddly enough, the American Jonathan Lambert. He declared himself sovereign ruler and sole owner of the rights to the archipelago.
In 1815, the Tristan da Cunha archipelago was annexed by the British. All due to the fact that in the neighborhood - on the island of St. Helena - Napoleon was imprisoned. The British were afraid of the rescue operation of the French fleet, besides, the islands were of strategic importance on the way from Europe to the Indian Ocean, since the Suez Canal did not exist yet, it was dug only by 1869. In 1821, Napoleon died, and the garrison was transferred to the Cape of Good Hope.
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