We bring you yet another post about where to go when you’ve run out of places to go. It’s something we aim to do as much as we can here at Matouring, as you won’t want too much “typical” or “normal” or “been there, done that” we would guess. We’ve been to lots of places and are always longing for more. So, here’s one that recently appeared on our radar, and we’re curious but not quite sure if it qualifies as a destination … yet.
We’re talking about Tristan da Cunha, colloquially Tristan, a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Informally, it’s known as Tristan and calls itself the most remote inhabited island on the planet. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but it certainly is an interesting thing. Lying approximately 2,787 kilometres (1,732 mi) from Cape Town in South Africa, 2,437 kilometres (1,514 mi) from Saint Helena, 3,900 km from Mar del Plata[4](2,400 mi) in South America and 4,002 kilometres (2,487 mi) from the Falkland Islands, that is about as remote as you can get, which means that you must really, really want to get there.
Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory with its own constitution. There is no airstrip on the main island; the only way of travelling in and out of Tristan is by boat, a six-day trip from South Africa.
Some content courtesy of Wikipedia.org.
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