World's Remotest Island
Tristan De Cunha, an Island in South Atlantic Ocean is the most remote, permanently-populated island in the world. Their nearest neighbour, St. Helena Island, is 2160 km away. Nearest mainland South Africa is about 2,800 km away and South American coast is about about 3,360 km away.
Incidentally, its namesake, is also the most remote inhabited archipelago in the World. Besides the main island the Tristan De Cunha archipelago consists of several small but inhabited islands mainly Inaccessible Island and Nightingale Island. The islands were first sighted in 1506 by a Portuguese sailor, Tristão da Cunha who gave it his name. It was formerly annexed by Britain in 1916 and is presently a British colony.
It has a population of about 300 mainly living in a tiny settlement Edinburgh (aka Edinburgh of the Seven Seas) under the shadow of an active volcano.
In 1961 due to volcanic eruption the entire population of the Island had to be evacuated to a former RAF shed at Southampton, England. After a stay of about one year, all the Islanders decided to return back to their Island. Below is an image of the lava field of 1961 eruption.
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