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Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 2,787 kilometres (1,732 mi) from Cape Town in South Africa, 2,437 kilometres (1,514 mi) from Saint Helena, 3,949 kilometres (2,454 mi) from Mar del Plata [7] in Argentina, and 4,002 kilometres (2,487 mi) from the Falkland Islands. [8] [9]
The St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Constitution Order 2009 (an Order in Council of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom) enacted a new constitution for the territory, which came into effect on 1 September 2009, and elevated Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha from being dependencies of Saint Helena to equal constituent parts.
On 16 March 2020, the Tristan da Cunha Island Council on Tristan da Cunha made the decision, as a precaution, to ban visitors to the island to prevent the potential transmission of the disease to islanders. [53] On 21 April 2021, HMS Forth delivered enough Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for the whole island to be completely vaccinated. [54]
The uninhabited islands of Tristan da Cunha were first sighted in May 1506 during a voyage to India by the Portuguese admiral Tristão da Cunha, although rough seas prevented a landing. He named the main island after himself, Ilha de Tristão da Cunha , which was later anglicised to Tristan da Cunha Island. [ 2 ]
Tristan da Cunha is a key breeding site for subantarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus tropicalus) and southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); rogue leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) have occasionally been sighted, as well, considerably further north from their typical Antarctic range. Feral cats were eradicated from Tristan da Cunha by 1974. [5]
Tristan da Cunha is thought to have been formed by a long-lived centre of upwelling magma called the Tristan hotspot. The climate is marine cool-temperate with small temperature differences between summer and winter (11.3 to 14.5 °C or 52.3 to 58.1 °F) and between day and night.
Potato Patches, also known as Patches Plain or, colloquially, The Patches, is an agricultural area and uninhabited rural settlement in Tristan da Cunha, in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, in the South Atlantic Ocean. [2]
Anne Green MBE (born 21 March 1952) is a Tristanian teacher, politician and public administrator from Tristan da Cunha, a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. She was the first woman to be elected Chief Islander (serving twice in the office ...