Tristan da Cunha
December 27th, 2008
This is one of the more amazing things I’ve ever seen. Just keep zooming out.
It’s Tristan da Cunha, a dependency of St. Helena (which is a territory of the United Kingdom). It’s commonly understood to be the most remote, inhabited place on Earth. Population 270-ish, all of whom share just seven last names.
It’s an archipelago. One of the islands in the group is officially called “Inaccessible Island,” if that tells you anything.
Living there might be scary:
Health care is free, but, with just one resident doctor from South Africa and five nurses, the delivery and surgery are limited and serious injury can mean necessitating sending signals to passing fishing vessels, so that the injured person can be transferred to Cape Town.
Found via this Reddit post, which has some interesting commentary, including this gem:
wtf, no street view?