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Very detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world: Tristan da Cunha and St. Helena, as well as S. Africa, Malaysia and Singapore, and Indonesia. Very informative, full of tips, history, what it was like to visit and stay there, indexed by country. Visit my webpage for this and other downloadable travelogues: http://www.tcp.com/~lgreenf
These are fascinating islands. Tristan has only 238 people, all with same 7 last names.
Remotest Islands in World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S Africa Malaysia, More
Larry2006-05-27 03:40:04
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/>the water, looking much like a duck).
At 5:00pm I went inside the sun lounge for an excellent BBC video on
Tristan entitled "Forgotten Island" (it was so good in fact that I later
asked Geoff the head purser if it was available for purchase -- he didn't
think so, as it was loaned to them with permission). The video was made by
a Tristanian lady who left the island in the 1980s and returned for a visit
in 1997... as it was shot by an islander, it was full of interviews and
personal accounts of her friends and family, being both insightful yet light
(narrating, the lady joked that they didn't actually all marry their first
cousins as many people believe). The video featured many of the people I'd
soon meet on the island (including Conrad, the island's one policeman), and
is probably the most accurate account of life on the island available on
video if one can get ahold of it. Some information from the video: there's
no postal delivery on Tristan, so when a ship arrives with mail, people go
and wait for their names to be called... on fishing days, women wait at the
harbor and knit... each Saturday just about everyone goes out to the potato
patches to work (located 2.5 miles from Edinburgh).
After the video, Geoff went over some general information for tomorrow:
it would cost £10/US$15 for a landing permit to go ashore (if you didn't
wish to disembark, paying £10 would enable you to get your passport
stamped)... then Captain Roberts addressed the crowd on the difficulty of
disembarking at Tristan: a rope ladder must usually be used, and he warned
that those not capable or nimble enough should stay on board the ship. His
briefing was a masterful performance, given as only a Brit with a sense of
theatrical flair could: a mixture of information and humor, he successfully
managed to get across to the (mostly
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See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Saint Helena Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
