AI generatedEdinburgh of the Seven Seas
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha · Tristan da Cunha
Short description of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is the only settlement on Tristan da Cunha and the most remote permanently inhabited place on earth, about 2,400 kilometres from Saint Helena and 2,800 from Cape Town. Just over two hundred islanders, sharing just a handful of surnames, live in cottages on a narrow green plain below the volcano and farm potatoes and fish for lobster. There is no airport. Fishing vessels and a polar research ship sail from Cape Town a few times a year, the crossing takes about a week, and landing by small boat depends on the swell. Visitors need permission from the island council, and expedition ships call for a day.
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Best time to visit: December – February
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- The settlement and its cottages below the volcano
- The climb of Queen Mary's Peak with a local guide
- Nightingale Island and its rockhopper penguins(Day trip)
- The Post Office and Tristan stamps
- The volcano of the 1961 eruption
- St Mary's Church on Tristan
- The potato patches
- Calshot Harbour and the island longboats
- Inaccessible Island seen from the sea