Geography lesson...
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:35 pmWhat's the most remote [glow=yellow,2,300]inhabited[/glow] location on Earth? A place called Tristan da Cunha. The approximately 270 residents of this archipelago see a mail ship only once a year. Tristan da Cunha is located at 37 South and 12 West, 1,242 miles (2,000 kilometers) from St. Helena and 1,739.8 miles (2,800 kilometers) from the nearest mainland, the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Tristan is circular in shape and is about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter with a total area of only about 30 square miles (78 square kilometers). The summer season falls between December and March. During the winter months, the central volcanic peak of Tristan, which rises to a height of 6,594 feet (2,010 meters), is covered in snow. Tristan da Cunha, the main island, is the only inhabited island in the chain. The other islands that make up the archipelago -- Nightingale, Stoltenhof, Gough, Middle and the appropriately named Inaccessible -- are not populated by humans.
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/most ... -place.htm
FS shows no sign of being inhabited other than the very short road that starts nowhere and ends nowhere. And it only shows three of the five islands. It also does not depict 'Inaccessible' as having verticle cliffs right at the water's edge, as Google Earth shows. The actual coordinates are: 37'07'59.40 S, 12'16'33.61 W.
The three islands.
Tristan and the road going nowhere.
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/most ... -place.htm
FS shows no sign of being inhabited other than the very short road that starts nowhere and ends nowhere. And it only shows three of the five islands. It also does not depict 'Inaccessible' as having verticle cliffs right at the water's edge, as Google Earth shows. The actual coordinates are: 37'07'59.40 S, 12'16'33.61 W.
The three islands.
Tristan and the road going nowhere.
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