| The Tristan da Cunha Archipelago |
Tristan da Cunha, often called "The Lonely Island" is the remotest inhabited island on earth.
The archipelago lies at 37.08°S, 12.28°W in the South Atlantic Ocean and is 2,778 kilometres west of Cape Town, South Africa.
There are five islands in the Tristan archipelago, Tristan, Inaccessible , Nightingale, Middle and Stoltenhoff. They were often visited in the 18th and early 19th centuries by sealers and whalers.
A further island, Gough, lies some 320km South-West of Tristan.
Tristan da Cunha is the tip of an ancient volcano, projecting from waters 615 metres deep (over 2,000 feet) on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The peak, which is composed primarily of cinders and other volcanic rocks, rises to some 2,060 metres (6,760 feet) and is usually covered in orographic cloud
