tristan da cunha

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• - Earle was stranded there in March 1824 when his ship, the Duke of Gloucester, inexplicably set sail without him. (Many of his South American watercolours presumably disappeared at that time as well.) It was fortunate that Earle had taken painting equipmen
  
• - Barry Weaver's Tristan page contains both a history of the island and a short bibliography. It's part of his South Atlantic Islands site.
  
• - The island's online newspaper.
  
• - A fascinating record of the history of Tristan from 1506 to 1926, written by Professor Arnaldo Faustini. It contains details of all ships calling at the island, detailed censuses and all major historical events. Downloadable in Adobe .PDF format
  
• - A detailed history of Tristan da Cunha, discovered in 1506, garissoned in 1816 and currently the most remote inhabited island in the world. The site covers the garissoning of the island in some detail, along with the "West Riding" disaster an
  
• - Albert Beintema's brief descriptions of the South Atlantic Islands he visited as part of his Atlantic Odyssey: he has also written about Tristan in "Het Waterhoentje van Tristan da Cunha"
  
• - Notes on geography, history, politics, economy, international relations, travel, current affairs.
  
• - Another site selling replica longboats
  
• - Some notes on the plant species of Tristan and Gough