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October 15, 2016
A Quick Tour of the Remotest Island in the World
Accessible on by sea, Tristan da Cunha is in fact an archipelago, the remotest inhabited one in the world, although only the main island was settled by man, with a permanent population of 265 residents as of September 2016. -- Messy Nessy Chic
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 15, 2016 10:04 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Who says there's nowhere white people can go when Clinton II opens the country to a surge of Africans?
Posted by: Etaoin Shrdlu at October 16, 2016 6:12 AM
Lonely planet.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Appears to be a couple other decent sized uninhabited islands right around there.
They shun technology.
Posted by: ghostsniper at October 16, 2016 7:34 AM
In and out of Ascension a lot in the '50s-60s resupplying Cape Canaveral down range sites. Got diverted once Ascension-St. Helena-Recife to kick out a package of urgent medical supplies over the St. Helena airstrip. Couldn't land there at that time. Understand they have a JetPort now. Saw a lot of lonesome back then, but never saw Tristan.
Posted by: BillH at October 16, 2016 8:05 AM
Stoat Weasel did a post on Tristan a while back and I've been fascinated by the island ever since. The history is pretty amazing. The entire island was evacuated in 1961 when the volcano erupted. After over a year in England they all went back. They have a website, and a Facebook page.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at October 16, 2016 9:57 AM
I've been fascinated by the island ever since.
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Same here, and I don't know why.
Read everything I could find about it yesterday including it's history back to the 1500's, looked at it with a magnifying glass in multiple maps, and in my idle moments I find myself thinking about it. Something about this place stirs me like no other.
Posted by: ghostsniper at October 16, 2016 1:17 PM
Communist society complete with police. Nice pictures but, no cigar.
Posted by: Terry at October 16, 2016 9:07 PM
Might be just the place to stuff that Black Lives Matter batch. See how they make out there.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at October 17, 2016 4:40 AM