Life on Tristan da Cunha - the World's Most Remote Inhabited Island
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Watch the three-part Britain's Treasure Islands documentary series on BBC FOUR, starting Tue 12 Apr 2016 21:00. (repeated Wed 13 Apr 2016 20:00).
This mini-documentary follows Stewart McPherson's journey to Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited island in the world. We meet the Tristanians and an interview with ex-chief islander Harold Green reveals what life is like in Tristan's only settlement, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.
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The air quality must be heaven.
The view of the stars too.
Most ppl suffering from asthma and this a hereditary problem bcz when 13 men or or I think 11women (approximately ) came on island. Men have English ,Scottish and Russian DNA and women have African,Asian DNA. after some time women brought 5or may be Six men from Britain and three men got asthma problem and these 3men got asthma from biological father .This is a whole story of DNA of these ppl.They all are British citizens and pound is official currency. They all are Christian and Long live queen is a national anthem.
@@Ladisingh9 Indian?
@@amlanmohanty3511 yes
@@Ladisingh9 q+
"Its so quite you can sometimes hear the grass growing"
That was Gold
Yes, for the first half an hour. And then?
I've never heard grass grow. I have heard corn grow though. It sounds like vrup.
Also his little chuckle after this is the most endearing thing I've ever seen
@@alasdairsmith7116 exactly! That melted my ❤
Quiet*
This island is so remote it took RUclips 6 years and 3 months to recommend this video to me!
Ja sama znalazłam ten film z komentarzy ludzi , na innym kanale .. pozdrawiam serdecznie wszystkich ❤❤
10 yrs 😂
Pls tell the world 🙏
took them 8 years for me
@@TheUrbanRebel I second this
I like to think that in nearly every post apocalyptic story, this town is still there and is doing just fine
Interesting... you're probably right tbh
Except after 6 months and no cargo ship shows up to restock them lol
@@chromberries7329there is potatoes, cow, horse etc.. no need to worry
@@chromberries7329Usually during an apocalypse the last thing you want is humans intervention. As long as they have water and food they'll be fine
@@chromberries7329they could still survive off of agriculture
"It's so quiet you can hear the grass growing." Beautiful.
As a city slicker that would drive me absolutely bonkers. I would be playing City Sounds on my Google speaker to fall asleep. LOL
@@mbogucki1 - You’d get used to it within a week and would never want to go back. LoL.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 I don't know friend. I purchased a house and moved from the city to the suburbs . I never got used to the quiet there. I sold the house about 4 years later and moved back to a condo in the city. 🤣
I can stand the lack of bustle for about a week, when I go camping, but then it starts to bother me.
@@mbogucki1 - You sound a lot like my wife. She likes country life for a few weeks at a time, but then gets the heebie-jeebies and needs to go back to the city. She’s different, though, in that she doesn’t like the constant noise of the city either!
I thought 'it was so quiet you can hear your conscience'.
You know this is a remote and cultural place as there's a flute on the soundtrack and everything.
Dead giveaway. 🙃
Haha
Omgoodness 😂😂😂😂
That's about to change as I'm gonna go there and set up a rave tent.
Facts 😂😂😂
I like how he casually starts the video saying he’s been at sea for three weeks getting there XD
That’s nothing lol. Try being at sea for 6 months
@@roynalle3807 SHE A DUDE HOMIE❗❗
@@Sparky19124 must been a navy boy or marine #ArmyStrong here
@@diegocorrea1059 💀😹
@@diegocorrea1059 I'd expect so
Just the way the old man is exuding pure joy and seems so at peace with himself tells me how much we can learn from the islanders way of life.
Beautiful 🙏
@@raraka828 wdym
@@divyanshupatel2326 ykewim
@@divyanshupatel2326 ykewim!
What exactly would we learn from them? Their world and cultural experience is extremely limited to say the least.
He does have a confederate flag so I don't know how at peace he is with outsiders
I visited South Georgia Island, Gough Island, Tristan Da Cunha, St. Helena, Ascension Island, and Madeira from March to May 2011 by the small expedition ship. It was an extraordinary experience for exploring different exotic islands, animals, and people.
South Georgia Island might be extremely important in the future. As a relatively large island (with good anchorages for ships) 800 miles from the nearest inhabited place and 2500 miles from the nearest substantially inhabited place, it's the best spot in the world to launch one of these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) It could well be Earth's primary spaceport someday!
@@alexanderfretheim5720 No, We strongly oppose a space launch pad with a nuclear rocket in South Georgia Island. South Georgia Island belongs to the land of arctic beauty and nature. Three reasons:
1. The only one of the richest fragile arctic animal refuges in the world.
2. The hostile climate (windy, freezing temperature, and cloudy) and rough sea most of the year.
3. The economic infeasible (too remote and distant location from the high-density populated cities) and costly import of resources and human-need supplies to the island. There is no airport in South Georgia Island, and they are heavily relying on sea shipping.
Ascension Island is a perfect location for the nuclear rocket launch pad because of the favorable climate and it is closer to populated areas. It is located near the equator that eases the nuclear rocket launch to propel into space than from the arctic region. It would not jeopardize the safety of nuclear rocket mishap because of the vast empty area of the Atlantic Ocean. Ascension Island is a location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and their nearest land is 1200 kilometers (700 miles). The airport is on Ascension Island that helps to sustain the mainstay of the economy. There was the satellite radar station with live television transmission on Ascension Island beaming from Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.
Believe me, because I visited all these islands in remote locations of the Atlantic Ocean, and witnessed all these facts of their world and environment.
@@timetraveler2518 Cool story bro.
1. In reality, probably won't hurt it that much. Launches will generally be timed for the fallout to fall away from the island rather than falling directly on it (fallout generally follows the wind). Even if by some human error they did time a launch for the wrong weather, fallout is often called "black rain": the tall mountains of South Georgia Island would create a rain shadow effect that would cause the fallout to drop on the near side of the adjoining mountain ridges. There might be some minor increase in incidents of animals getting cancer, but for the most part they would have little baby animals and life would continue. In fact, the Chernobyl Exclusion Area is the best thing that ever happened to the ecology of Northwest Ukraine and Southeast Belarus and has hosted a remarkable return of life to that region.
1b. Furthermore, the need to control fallout, emp, radiation and other aspects of the nuclear launch would lead to some of the most controlled and regulated development in the history of the world. We would need to be as close to the blast site as possible, while being far away enough to survive ourselves, leading to merry minuet of meticulous planning and knowing where people are at all times. The dangerous nature of the economic activity would have the result of preventing the dangerous excess and general carelessness that are the real anthropogenic causes of environmental harm. Frankly it's probably less dangerous for the environment than the tourists currently haunting South Georgia.
2. What does that have to do with anything?
3. Ship will work just fine. It's actually cheaper. Even if you want an airport, airports can be built, and it's a lot easier to acquire an airport than to deal with the possible EMP and other ramifications of a nuclear launch near (and when you're dealing with a-bombs, the definition of "near" is far from conservative) settled human populations.
👍👍...
@@timetraveler2518 nah....South Georgia Island is best!!
Imagine their sky in the night
It would be amazing
No light pollution.
OMG they own their own sky ? This place is amazing !
@@atyourservice trying to be funny?
@@yvesleroux9313 man, that hit the spot!
I’ve been here, when I was in the Royal Navy. We stopped off and visited. Beautiful place
Hi
Damn how long did y’all stay?😂 I’m in the us navy and when I stopped by faslane I did not understand a god damn word from the Scottish shipyard workers💀
Thats cool! Not much people would have the opportunity to go there in their lifetimes like they would other countries!
Of course you didn't. Royal Navy can't stop whereever they like. Pffffffffff
@@SingTodayi I’ve seen the Royal Navy guys drink alcohol on the boat when it’s not their duty day plus they can grow a full ass beard without any special chit. Must be nice to have it easy in the Royal Navy
" it's so quiet you can hear the grass grow". That tells me how much he loves that Island. And it sounds very appealing to me as well
This was posted 3 years ago I live on Tristan and had to send this comment by bottle hope I'm not too late
Wow
I want to visit your place soon
are you happy in the island?
@@naniwhut169 this is a joke
@@Fbg333 No it's not🤨
This is the life we would read about in children's books
Yeah ikr
Absolutely
Lovely and... so boring.
What if the only doctor in town dies? I bet they'll be in trouble. Island dwellers have a tough life. Due to close proximity and heavy reliance on cordial family like community certain pathogens and disease tend to spread the fastest in such areas.
Came down here to comment the same
The 1961 volcano was big news in the UK.
I played the accordion as a kid in a concert to cheer up the inhabitants brought over to the uk..... a memorable occasion. Bless them.👍🇬🇧
🙏🏼
lol
You must be ancient. In fact as your comment is a year old there is a good chance I should be saying Rest In Peace.
@@oobenoob sounds like this person is in their 60s... What age do you hope to live until ? Do you have any family that are older ? You sound very cruel for no reason, what happened to you?
I remember it well as an adult and believe I’m still alive.
This video is an important linguistic resource. Thank you for recording this man's incredibly unique accent!
Not unique he sounds like a South African, I also spotted a South African beer signia,and the bus they were driving in probably came from South Africa to because the emergency exit notice was written in Afrikaans and English
I thought it was very unique too!
As a kid I was an avid reader of Jules Verne, this was in the '90s, before the internet as we know it today. At some point in one of his novels, I stumbled upon some fascinating description of Tristan da Cunha, I can't remember which novel it was, but for some reason this island name just got stuck in my brain for years. Amazing how just 25 years ago I could only imagine how the island looks by reading Verne's words, and now I can pinpoint the island in Google Earth and see it in incredibile details.
I think I read the same book as you, it's called the 20,000 leagues under the sea :)
The Mighty Orinoco gave me that same fascination for southern America
neat!
Captain william len guy
In Jules Verne's novel In Search of the Castaways, one of the chapters is set on Tristan da Cunha, and a brief history of the island is mentioned
Wiki, just in case 😉
That island must be an astronomers paradise - no light pollution. I would love to see the sky's there
Looked pretty cloudy/misty.
That's what I thought at the first glance
"So quiet you can hear the grass grow" I love it.
This is a beautiful example of communal living and brotherhood. No one fighting over who has the best potato patch and if someone's garden fails, I bet they don't go hungry.
as any british crime drama will tell you : that's where all the creepiest murders happen 😂
Lol. Naive to think there is no drama. People create drama everywhere over everything..
How do you know?
@@nondescript2892 You just have to watch The Wicker Man to realise that!
@@nondescript2892 Right? In a group of 200 ppl, big chances to be a psycopath among them.
The thing is, because its a small and closed environment, ppl will know that you won't get away for too long if you start commiting crimes. It will be very easy to track down the wrongdoers.
I was almost there in 1955. I was on the mail steamer, the Windsor Castle. It called there once a year. Alas, the sea was stormy so passengers couldn't go ashore. I wasn't too happy at the time.
I born on sept.1956. I wish you all the good health and happiness in this world. Love, respect and prayer🙏 stay safe.
@@davidran9317 That is really appreciated, go thee with God.
May you a long happy life sir. Prayers from Pakistan
ah shit sir. major bummer that
go with god sir
An island with polite, quiet people. This has to be preserved
Tell that to the volcano..
Volcano: Allow me to introduce myself
Yep, no diversity here. Lucky people.
@Ben Jefferson The Tristanians’ originating from many different *European* nations hardly disproves the notion that ethnic diversity would cause problems. Most of the groups that contributed to their ancestry belong to one race - the Europoid one, as is evident from the islanders’ looks - and they nowadays form one ethnicity, at least when it comes to their social structure.
but how many muslims do they have? at the current rate, the uk population will be majority muslim by 2067 and we will probably become an islamic state, do you really think they are not fortunate to not have this problem? although if this does happen, they will want to get independence first or it could become their problem too.
I lived on a remote-ish scottish island for 10 months. i loved it. i miss it so much. You cannot beat the community spirit of an island. it had people from all walks of life, from rich to poor. I never felt alone, or bored. i felt like I was with an extended family. I would go back in a heartbeat , if I could afford to.
In which island did you live? And can you give a bit informations about that island? Population etc. I'm just asking because of I'm curious about the remote islands.
Well I live in Scotland 😂 born here free
kelly fallbrook
I can see the appeal in some respects however the lack of new people and the night life must be extremely dull, although I guess you could go to the mainland if you wanted to.
You said it, great comment!👍
@@princevladimirjoseph1555 Try the Isle of Foula the westernmost of the Shetland Isles, population 30.
Tristão da Cunha is the name of an actual Portuguese explorer, who was the first to sight this island. Of course, he pulled an Alexander the Great and named it after himself Though he decided not to land there due to the rough seas you see at the beginning. He saw the island as part of his 1506 voyage. The main goal of the voyage was to capture Socotra off of Yemen to close Red Sea trade in Portugal's favor.
After he saw Tristan, he went to Barawa in what's now southern Somalia, defeated Ajuran Empire troops, and looted the place. Then he went to Socotra and successfully captured it (but due to famine and losing many ships due to no proper harbor, the Portuguese abandoned Socotra in 1511). Finally, he went to India where he participated in the Siege of Cannanore in 1507
Never knew the supreme leader knows so much about a tiny British land
@@KingofGreatNeck history and geography were his favorite subjects😄😄😄
thank you supreme leader.
Very well said supreme leader.. tnx for the information
Thank you your highness for your information. It's such a pleasure meeting you here you almighty.
I see this video occasionally. When I first came to know about Tristan da Cunha years ago, I searched on RUclips for everything related to it. I always dream of living in a far-off place like this. the tranquility, peacefulness and no rat race is the purest form of acceptance one can embrace on life. So happy for them.
and no diversity
@@deicidal88 🤣🤪
Except for when the volcano erupts
@@deicidal88 Plenty of diversity. At over 6,500 feet in elevation there are multiple climate zones where many diverse plants and animals thrive. Colombia is the most diverse in my opinion.
@@randymillhouse791 That's not what he referred to mate..
"There are no locks here" dude trys to open a LOCKED market.
Last Survivor 😂😂
lol yeah i was thinking the same
So true
Bloody community. Maybe the island is remote, but you can't help but live with the other people in there. They will spit at your face if you are lazy and don't give a hand at their community. You have no choice but to stick to their code of conduct. Not my freedom.
roucoupse ?
Why would any one not want to pull their weight. The only way they can survive is by relying on each other
Would have been hilarious if when the old man said in the interview, " We don't lock a door, there are no locks". And yer man followed it up by saying, "I just tried to get into the supermarket 11 minutes ago and the door was locked".
Then he could reply.."..that's because we knew you were coming.."!
Eoin Dowling You’re definitely Irish haha
I'm pretty sure he meant in general. Of course a store with paid goods is going to be locked when no one is there. C'mon now
Fuck you ol man your lying! Why doesn't he ask how they get laid?
😄😄😄🤣😂🤣
Videos like this take me to another world. Thank you very much.
I bet the gossip here is on an epic level
Obviously what else can they do. Stick your nose to your neibor
Gold 👍😂
Also the cheating !
@@AA_DZ everyone has the clap
relatively
"It's one big family" that's probably literally true.
lol
that made me chuckle
Praveen Sharma it's true. your father in law is your uncle too right? lmao
Bryan bitch, I'm Hindu. Unlike you I see all people as part of one big community.
Praveen Sharma Lol don't pretend you aren't a muslim. Even your name is "Shoarma"
What a beautiful place ,reminds me of a tiny Caribbean island I emigrated to from England as a child. Everyone shared whatever they had , even help you with your housework, celebrated with you and always there for you in a crisis.
Which island is that? I’m from the Caribbean so we’ll so im curious
Montserrat 🇲🇸
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 lol you do kinda sound racist, she said when she was a child. It is implied she is talking about the past. People from the Caribbean can understand the context. My parents told me when they were growing up ( years ago) nobody locked their doors -it was peaceful and everyone knew everyone. Yes we know that times have changed now but there’s no need to be negative
@@TheDogGoesWoof69you have not even travelled it shows...
Were you ever there for them?
Or just take, take, take?
I stopped over in Tristan de Cuhna in 1976 whilst sailing back from South America to South Africa
u r lucky sir
Wow!!!
“There’s no locks at all”
5 seconds earlier jiggling the locked lock of the supermarket. Lol
Hahahahahaha
Lol! I came here to say that too. Kind of makes it hard to take anything he says serious from then on.
You people are so stupid. The way to tell if store is closed they lock the doors. It's not from thieving like you are use to.
@@jer6162 oh cuz a sign that say “closed” isn’t good enough? Lol
The elder man speaks so gently. This island seems like a dream come true. I would love to go live there with my family. We hate the city noise. This island is heaven on earth. Beautiful
I wonder why there is a Confederate Battle Flag by his side? Hhhmmm
@@scottscottsdale7868 oh shoot. Did not notiic that🙊🙊😱
Doesn’t look like they would welcome “different” people to their community.
@@ahmdo8485 what do you mean by “differently”? If you think that comment isn’t racist You may be a leftist.
Yea all your people do is reproduce and move to every country on earth.
Man if that guy has lived there his whole life he’s probably only spoken to and met like 500-600 people in his whole life if that,
@@eyerolling i met 500 people in One day dude.thats normal
@@tr-gp5sr That to me is the definition of nightmare. 500 butts speaking their farts, no thanks
@@eyerolling are you stupid?
A person on earth knows an average of 800 people in his life.
The dream
The confidence he has in the children's safety is priceless. What a great way to live. So pure.
“… and we absolutely forbid politicians of any sort..”
Heaven if I’ve ever seen it
Heaven on earth
If one step foot on the island they get blasted
Guess why they look so happy and fulfilled. Modern politics are predicated on division and hatred of the "other".
Grab'em by the p***y
Yes, we call each other brothers and sisters. There's a good and logical reason for that!
They have to go overseas to find a spouse. Nowadays, they probably order one on Amazon Prime.
Muahhaha
ha ha ha ha good one
@unknown user No, that's Pitcairn Island, and it didn't end well.
Are you your own grandpa ?
I grew up in a small village in rural Germany with about 120 ppl. Until the late nineties practically no one had their doors locked. Some doors didn't even have locks. 🔐
didn't ask my guy
I grew up in Morocco with 35 other million people. and there still some places in there where houses are not locked and you are always invited and welcomed . it’s not about the number of population but the ethics .
I grew up in Coconut Grove in the fifties, we didn’t even have locks on our doors! My grandparents live nearby and didn’t either.
We never locked our doors and even went on vacation and forgot to close the front door. lol.
@@bernieweber4663 I grew up in Coconut Grove, Florida in the fifties. We never had locks on our doors. Never locked our cars and left our boats at the public dock. Not once did we have a theft.
Another British Overseas Territory with a similar volcano situation is Montserrat in the Caribbean. If you ever listened to Boney M, one of the three girls in the group, Maizie, is from there. While the islanders on Tristan nearly lost their main settlement to a volcano, that was unfortunately not the case for Montserrat when it came to their capital Plymouth...Plymouth became buried in volcanic ash as a result of eruptions in the late 90s from its active volcano Soufrière Hills.
Two-thirds of the island left because of the eruptions (fewer than 1,200 chose to stay on Montserrat in 1997; currently there are over 4.6K) who were evacuated to Antigua and then to Great Britain. Until a new capital is completed, Plymouth has remained the de jure capital, making it the only ghost town capital of a political territory. Half of the island is an exclusion zone where no one's allowed to live nor visit the volcano unless you're a scientist. Though some excursions get permission from police to walk around Plymouth. You can also book a helicopter tour from Antigua where you can see abandoned Plymouth from above and the destruction of the whole southern side of the island.
Thanks for the info. My husband was born in Plymouth England
holy shit havent seen you in ages
They evacuated throughout the Caribbean. Many came to St Lucia. Some have since returned to rebuild their lives in Monsterrat.
Great Information, thank you!
That old guy had an amazing, unique accent! I love it
@Insert Name Here Australian? I've never heard any Australian talk like that !!
He had more of a mix of old accents from England. Some words he said the old Midlands way, some west country, some Kentish. You could hear the sailors and settlers in him. An accent unique to the island I'd say.
@Insert Name Here and bit kiwi when I hear words with strong"E"
Sounded like someone from the 19th century
Well everyone there looks well fed. Maybe that's why the only lock in the whole town is on the supermarket.
So people only steal food or what? I don't understand
@@rikardobrate that was the joke.....since the guy mentioned no locks and there was clearly a lock on the supermarket.
@@zirzmokealot4600 clear
@@rikardobrate clear clearly clearest clearerererer
@@rikardobrate lol
Wow!! I can remember my father brougt home people from the island ~ must've been with the eruption? We stayed in Tiervlei close to Cape Town and I was a young girl. I am now 69years old.
Ria Slabbert your father brought people from the Island back to Cape Town? It’s such a long trip, three weeks!
Ria, I thought I was the only person in the world who knows about Tiervlei. I lived there as a young boy in the late '60's . I cannot remember the road's name but it ended with "singel " Where did you live?
@@leonmcclusky8180 Ja! Jammer/Sorry. Its not Tiervlei anymore.
We stayed in De Villiers street ~ in the same street as the NG. Moedergemeente.*
Hi Ria, Ja, the name Tiervlei ceased to exist a very long time ago. Neither street name nor church rings a bell with me. This is all a very long time ago. I'm now a 56 year old man, and I'm talking about the years as a 6-8 year old boy. All I remember is that our road was parallel to the big double carriage way (forgot this road's name) that goes right down through Ravensmead all they way into Voortreker rd in Parow. In those days there was a Simba Chps factory somewhere along this long road more towards Belhar side. I know the factory was not too far from where we lived. So how far was De Villiers rd from the Simba Chips factory ?
I wish I lived in places like all of you. Im stuck in a fat cesspool called the US.
I’ll bet being there in person , the raw beauty of nature and the isolation is incredible 😮
The dating game is rough over here
And imagine what it's like to date in this island when you're gay/lesbian
@@DoctorBabby there’s no such thing as being gay or lesbian in this island since people are required to reproduce
@@DoctorBabby I feel like the majority of kids wanna get tf off the island especially since they have internet there so they know what the rest of the world has to offer
@@sebasbandera 2:01 Why are you lying lmao
@@LandoMercy ohhh my bad i thought this was about some other island you right
The man he interviewed seems like such a gentle lovely soul.
5:54 look at his table
@@andreivolkov1237 the flag in front of it....
@Latinos will take over the USA why are you so triggered lmao
@Latinos will take over the USA nope really cant say I give a shit. it's just a bit sad lol
How serene and beautiful. Never heard of Tristan Island, thank you for enlightening me.
Was discovered by the portuguese and robed by the british.
i woulda shat meself if i thought pompeii was goin down .
Watching this on a random Sunday morning is giving such good British day TV vibes
"It's so quiet you can hear the grass growing." HAHAHA!! LOL That's a good one! :'D
and an old one
Alexander Dumas I'm from the city. Forgive me.
Kim Hu Sorry, mate. My IQ is in Canada.
quiet, no I couldn't stay here everyone would hear me if I was doing this 4:58 I'm very loud when I do it.
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They say that on Tristan Da Cunha, there is no way of correctly levelling your audio.
hahaha good one
Brilliant
Especially in their houses
I don't get it can you explain please
@@asierrey5666 the loudness throughout the video is not equalised. Some parts are audible while some are just too low.
It's a pure island for nature and also for mind.
Yes you are right. But people work hard. Milking the cows early in the morning, going to the potatoe patches and planting vegetables, , fixing roads, repairing roofs, fishing, cooking, ... Here people never retire. They work as long as they are able to.
At 5:54 there's a confederate flag on his coffee table . So yes it may be beautiful for some but not all .
@@ffarrialove get a grip!
@@macka5515 racist reply detected. Also why did u like your own reply?
世上最遙遠的島發現歷史哥
I’m from central Illinois in the USA, and born in ‘65. My dad named me after the island. Tristan Cleer. We visited England when I was 3.
I remember, as a little girl learning about Tristan da Cunha. When the volcano erupted it made very big news in the UK. I would have liked to visit… only 270 inhabitants!
Well, I`m 58yrs old now and I also remember learning all about Tristan da Cunha at school. Think they would definitely benefit from Permaculture farming techniques and yes I`d love to visit as well
@@ianrobson9601 I wonder how much has changed to those ‘olden days’ Ian.
Cameraman: "Damn, I forgot the camera bro"
Narrator: "Fuuuuuuuuuu..."
😂😂😂👍🏻
Narrator: you're not my bro cuz!
Wow, fresh air, fresh food. No crime. I can very happily live here. 💜❤🤓
Stupid boi lel
How the fuck the world's most remote inhabited island would have natives?
Cinnamon Starr
It's inhabitant,FUCKASS!!!
Epic FAIL cinnamon star.
Cinnamon Starr Cretin. It was uninhabited
Except for all the child rapists. Read up on the horrible current history here
Fascinating. Never even heard of the place before this interesting video. Thanks.
Only a matter of time before those Instagrammers invade this island
those mfs are entitled enough that they would die on the journey lol, I doubt they would last 18 fucking days of sailing
there are no airports there
It's extremely hard to visit this island. You have to apply, and the counsel grants you permission to come. Then it's a ridiculously long sea voyage to get to it.
They don't want it turning into a tourist destination, and it probably never will.
@@DChappelle27 It doesn't even have a beach and actually; nothing exotic at all. Not even a Chocolate tree.
Most boring place ever, and stupidly dangerous - I was warming to it at the start of the vid thinking the volcano was extinct and had all those cool cave networks and wildlife spreading going on. Nope!! The highlight if any normal resident went over there for any reason would be their mobile device xDD
Ok boomer
Some of these comments 🤣 there are two airports and thousands of beaches. Most mines have now been cleared. Please read facts before commenting.
I love how they brush over 3 weeks at sea. Lol that must have been brutal
Exactly. There's no way to take a plane?
@@dk6173 The island doesn't have an airstrip.
Kris Kringleberg, M.D. they have a lot of planes that start on the water actually! But I bet they just didn’t have a plane and there was already a boat going or something
They didn't have to take a sail boat.
Plane will be too expensive to operate. The population of only 270 can not support it.
I wish I could live somewhere like this. What a simple and humble life.
plus you don't have to worry about covid-19 or other viruses
or another war
So why don't you? Not this island but if you are American move to Montana, British Northern parts of Scotland, Italian hundreds of tiny villages in souther parts and so on
Most countries have hundreds of places like that island
@@dreed100 have to much to lose, job, mortage, family not as sime as it sounds my friend. I live in the UK and still in the rat race unfortunately
@@al-azimahmed1188 so you value your house work over living simple and humble life.
I myself have an option to move to Tonga and live there. Choose not too. The simple and humble life sounds nice but I want concerts, museums, access to deliveries, Mexican, Japanese, Nigerian,Croatian restaurants whenever i wish.
Proper healthcare and access to education
I need modern comforts :)
And Tonga has reliable internet and proper shops.
Tristan sounds even worse :)
I had a Belgian friend in South Africa that traveled there on a merchant ship, he never stopped talking abo7t the island. He said the people were amazing, friendly open arms. Love to visit.
Love this village. It's so peaceful. Imagine living here with all your loved ones
That would ruin it.
@@gunsmokeandghouls ikr
In my case, I can imagine me living there Without Any of my lived ones. Pure peace.
They prob marry each other
Spiderman no way home< hobbitland here we are! lol
"I make the best boots in Tristan!"
"You are the only boot-man in Tristan, right?"
"Yes!"
I bet he got the job from being the best in the town ;) lol
Still being the best
Sadly he makes the absolute worst boots in Tristan
@@LordRalh3 So what,they're still the best Boots, becaus there's no other Cobblers to compare to!
@@arcang2102 They are still the worst boots on the island, even another year later
Could you imagine the quality food and veggies they grow in that rich black soil?
Lizziegirlnyc yes, gmo ofcouse
Too bad you can't find the same quality in women.
Lizziegirlnyc
ON THAT RICH BLACK SOIL, YOU COULD GROW RICH BLACK POTATOES!
Potato with potato, nice
@@-Vitalis- You can if you raise them in rich black soil.
This is paradise ... peace and quiet ...only for my family I would be gone tommorow
What a lovely laid back dude that Islander is. I'm Scottish but, as a Brit, I'm pleased he got a kindly reception in England and speaks well of us.
This island seems like a perfect setting for a Wes Anderson movie!
This video honestly has the funniest comments I've EVER seen on RUclips.
LOL!
Yes! 😊
This was sooo interesting to me as my brother in law was part of the RN evacuation of Tristan in 1961. I remember all the footage of the volcano and the islanders arriving in GB. It was very hard for them so seeing this video was very lovely. I watch with interest the volcanic action in Iceland at this time.
I knew who I think was the last governor of Tristan da Cunha, who took the job because he was a passionate ornithologist! He went with his wife, and there was a post and probably supply boat that visited the island every three months. And the islanders spoke a kind of dialect, at first difficult to understand. But the man who spoke here spoke very clearly and softly.
That's the thing: the guy he talked to CANNOT have lived there all of his life. Why? The 1961 evacuation. He's older than being born in 1961 and thus he must have been evacuated at that point.
@@davidpnewton no room for nuance for you eh
That camera guy is a 4th dimensional human, the way he is able to teleport in and out of that bus while it's driving down the road. Breath-taking really. I'm astonished to finally be able to see one of these divine beings.
this is actually so cool and even though we don't live in such remote communities we can learn a lot about their way of life. They are forced to be self-sufficient and not wasteful.. very developped planning skills
it’s literal communism yet the guy has a confederate flag you can’t make this up
@@Hassan-hr6sx lol working together isn't communism. They have tradesmen and general businesses who are working for themselves. The UK probably forgets these guys even exist half the time, because how much tax money are you going to collect off 240 people in a backwater island?
You forgot to mention the inbreeding that's taking place their everyone is related
@@setcheck67 Working together and everyone contributing towards the common good is literally communism, no matter what reactionary feelings you have towards the word you've been propagandized to feel is bad your whole life by your capitalist overlords.
@@OrbObserver I looked up the definition of communism and even the most similar definition simply says "A political ideology of no personal property, where everything belongs to the community".
The word you're looking for "working together towards the common good" is called Altruism or utilitarianism depending on how selfless you choose to be. With altruism being significantly more extreme than utilitarianism. The difference is communism doesn't account for how hard something is to do. In a world like you think people mining coal underground would only work 4 hours a day with respirators provided for them to detox their lungs, because they're killing themselves doing that job. In communism, every single miner from the age of 70 to 17 is required to work 10 hour shifts 6 days a week in order to be productive enough to benefit the state and earn their equal part of the bread. I'm not even being extreme, that's a real example...
Imagine the Stars at Night Here. The View must be staggering.
That's a good point - actually kind of gets me to wonder why there aren't any astronomers or large telescopes on the island (at least to my knowledge there aren't any)
For this reason.. the stars.. I would love to stay here.
@@BenevolentPasserby and no airport.
Peter Schmidt for telescopes you more than just altitude, it is a combination of dry and clear days, like in Atacama desert plus altitude
Peter Schmidt would spend millions to build a telescope on a active vulcano island? Besides, the weather is shit. You can’t see stars
Dude spends six weeks on a sail boat to make a 8:00 minute video. Dedication for sure! Great story what a majestic place
The video is just an edited product. The actual taping may taken several days of shooting and interviewing.
RaymondHng that's exactly what he said...why the hell did you assume anything else?
@@GoingNorthObv He did not mention anything about the time spent on principle photography.
He said 18 days sailing, not 42.
@@RaymondHng It's implied in his whole comment. The whole point of his comment was specifically pointing out what you're not getting.
I find this completely fascinating. I've lived in or near London all my life and honestly can't imagine how life in a community like this must be.
When i'm old and retired, i wanna live in a place like this, a small and quite village far away from big cities and die in peace.
No internet tho
hahahaha
when you're 80 years old, you didn't need so much internet anyway, since most of the time you spend for rest and sleep.
IndraEMC lol what if you get acute appendicitis there
Tahir Minhas ... or cholecystolithiasis?! you'll be doomed i tell ya! doomed!
Between my semi-phobia of vast, open waters and my need to be constantly on the go, I could never, ever live in a place like that, but it's so fascinating and intriguing to see and hear of those who love that life. It's really quite lovely. If I could survive (mentally and emotionally) the 3-week boat trip there AND the same trip back, I believe it would be a truly memorable experience to visit.
I'd probably love the lifestyle there. Have to pick of of less than 300 people to marry haha and just be content w what's available
You must be under 60 yr old. 😊
@@jugo1944 but think about the rates of inbreeding...
"constantly on the go" lmao, just like that girl who weeps when she isn't in a city. embarrassing.
@@levonschaftin3676 relax omg
i saw an internet café so I'm sold
Amazing night skies…air quality as pure as a breeze off the ocean. I’m starting to understand the appeal of a place like this.
Volcano aside, this is where you want to be during the apocalypse. Fertile ground, plentiful fishing, well away from all the BS.
They’ll be fucked when sea levels rise though
@@tomcallaghan3682 it has a high peak, so they’ll just be pushed further and further up the mountain
@@dbtalahuonyommusic7067 closer to where the Lava flow.
@@zinny999 just hope it don’t blow
@@tomcallaghan3682 keep believing that sea levels would rise. Do you really think that Obama would have invested in 10s of millions of dollars for his ocean front place on Martha's Vinyard if he actually believes that sea levels will rise?
That is a good clean life and i would LOVE to live in a place like that. They are not concerned with all the corruption going on world wide. Those people are people of peace and thats lovely to see.
Due to the absence of wealth and young people.
@@survivortechharold6575 The man interviewed mentioned children on the island.
He should sell T shirts saying - "I went all the way to the world's remotest inhabited island and all I got was this 8m52s video"
every introverts dream
No dude. Everyone socialize here
That would be Pitcairn Island, where there's only fifty people on the entire island and it's three thousand miles from both New Zealand and South America. This island looks like New York City in comparison to Pitcairn.
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I like this place. I am a steelworker currently.
As a fellow introvert I say cities are better. In a place like this everyone relies on each other for entertainment. It's my top wishlist destination, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Not even Queen Elizabeth remembers they own this island
The Queen absolutely does. She often writes to the government of the Island's. Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and Princess Anne have all visited the Island's, Prince Andrew served in the Falkland's War.
@@roannalloyd7288 I can't see a developt island there, I just see poverty and abandon from Queen Elizabeth. She must give dignity live to that population as a bless.
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@@iAntonisX You pig troll!!! Enjoy the documentary and keep garbage talk out of it.
@@angeldelaverdad3122 Lol poverty? It doesn't look like it's in poverty at all. Just a small island with modest living and modest people. You're definitely no Angel of truth.
Amazon be like guaranteed one decade delivery 😂
They deliver anywhere lol
PRØXY with prime time it’s the next winter
Oh damn, I live on Guam and it takes more than a month to get even overnights. I can only imagine them.
So far this is the best and informative docufilm bout Tristan da Cunha.
This island is like the first half hour of a random RPG
A Tristan Da Cunha RPG actually sounds amazing!
The safest place in the world from Covid-19 (coronavirus).
BIG FACTS. I bet these people have no idea that there's a virus outbreak happening lol
"Fun" Fact,
In 1972 the arrival of the Tristania (ship) brought with it the H3N2 influenza virus, which resulted in an explosive outbreak that attacked a whopping 96% of the population.
I'm sure China can be relied on to screw up so badly the virus even reaches TDC
@Katarina G how very true, and they have a large population of ham radio operators who communicate all over the world. The citizens of Tristan de Cunha have come a long way in a few decades. Their educational system is up to date.
@@crystalc1ear Lol - it's always hilarious when historical facts dash _"obvious solutions"_ to current problems.
You hardly seemed to do this little island justice. You barely scratched the surface.
no bucket list complete without remote little ole Tristan!!
Who else came from How Far Away Can You Get From Everybody Else?
ImSeMteX me
I am
ImSeMteX bro how'd you know lol
Im not sure man! Smart people think alike xD
wow lol same
Imagine celebrating a birthday party on the island.
Just invite *everyone*
and no one comes
GOLF CODE WEEKLY 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 jezzz
Invite everyone, but one!
Absolutely everyone will come, it's different than most of city with big community such as london, new york, tokyo and any other big cities which is everyone is absolutely shite and arsehole
You have had more than 200 people at your birthday?
Theres no locked doors? What about the supermarket that was locked up 😂
Probably because they knew the host was visiting there and will try to break into the supermarket :D
+Max Pan possibly haha but still
MrBoatsnhoes69 I
PerthTowne is that sarcasm, wasn't really funny to me
MrBoatsnhoes69 That's funny. I just said that, lol!
7:06 Calmness and peace ,two things I need in my life
The old bloke's mode of speaking and accent is so interesting! Almost a mixture of South African and rather posh RP English! Just listen to the "o" of "October", "volcano" and "coach", and the "i" of "first"-- fascinating!
and the "b" in "leave".
Excellent observation !!
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Currently there's a podcast on the BBC iPlayer called "In Living Memory" (Series 14 Episode 1) and it discusses the evacuation of Tristan da Cunha (fun fact: there are only 7 surnames on that island: Glass, Green, Hagan, Laverello, Repetto, Rogers and Swain)
Swain is a Nordic name
@@Bless-the-Name it's a Scottish name
@@blardymunggas6884 not sure you've read the title properly.
@@atothezeezee sorry my bad
Why there is evacuation?
I guess overnight delivery from Amazon Prime doesn’t really work there.
Finally there is one place left where fu... Amazon does not deliver to.
@aqua box it's a history📖
Agree
Challenge accepted
Amazon only has a 3 day service on the island.
About ten years ago, I fantasized about moving here just to experience the novelty of isolation. I now realize that you wouldn’t be able to get deliveries for months and there isn’t much to do, so I’d go crazy.
There are some little corners of isolated coastal New Zealand that feel like this.
Yes..... totally next level
Where?
Same with Tasmania. NZ and AUS are the best places in the world.
Same with Australia. :)
OrchestrationOnline Parts of Maui, where I live, are exactly like this!
My Grandfather came from this island!!
Are you still in contact with anyone from the island?
And his ancestors came from Great Britain and Ireland
@@jameswalker3416 no I am not, sadly. I would love to visit one day
@@itsme-sn5gi yes- when I did my ancestry dna that’s where I had the most match was from England
Are they from Africa?
"there are no locks anywhere". Just thirty some seconds earlier he showed us the supermarket was locked...
bangus118 tbf, it was for comedic effect more than anything else
An introvert's paradise🤩🤩
Mr. Harold Green’s voice is truly soft, ASMR soft 😊
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