Tristan da Cunha: A History of the World's Most Remote Inhabited Island.
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Historical events reach far beyond their direct causes, reaching even the most remote populations, such as the archipelago of Tristan de Cuhna- the most remote inhabited island in the world.
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Information and facts vs mind numbing entertainment with ocassianall facts sprinkled in. I agree with that assessment.
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I was born in Montevideo-Uruguay in 1948 and I have learned while in primary school, that Tristan Da Cunha is the only piece of land between our port and Cape Town in South Africa.
The inhabitants of that remote place are not only healthier than us, but they seem to be happier.
Greetings from Toronto.
My uncle had the joy of having a rough yacht trip back in 1953. They were rolled a few times and eventually managed to limp to Tristan. The yacht, the SV Coimbra, washed ashore, and was covered during the volcanic activity in the 60s. Her point of beaching is marked on a shipwreck stamp produced by the islanders.
Back when my kids were little I was coming out of the commissary with groceries when I met a woman with the cutest little boy. I asked what his name was and she said Tristan. I said, "As in Tristan da Cunha?" She asked incredulously, "You've heard of it." "Yes, it's an island in the South Atlantic." "I was born there." You never know who you will run into in the Navy or where they will be from.
that is such a wild story! life is so interesting
I met several of the Tristan islanders when they were in England after the volcanic eruption and they were lovely people. Thank you for telling a little of their story.
What a unique story.
Wish them all continued happiness & health, for they enjoy a splendid ignorance of a world that the rest of "humanity" hasn't done a very impressive job with.
I took a video of Tristan Da Cunha and Inaccessible Island in 2010 as I was lucky enough to be on a unique cruise - the Captain had completed 50 years of maritime service and the cruise company let him make his own itinerary. I will have to get round to posting it - I never realised how few visitors have ever been there.
Visited Tristan da Cunha in 1993 as a SAAF helicopter pilot on the SAS Agulhas. Very interesting place. We had the scientists on board who took blood samples from most of the population to study the asthma phenomenon. IIRC over 90% suffered from asthma. Also all the dogs had different coloured eyes.
Very interesting .
A very good lecture, well done. Love these little stories. When I blurt out such stories to my friends, they call them "Unnecessary Information of the Day". A story my father once told me was that a Danish owner of a plasterboard factory sold his factory and patents to an American consortium; but had added in the sales document all rights in the form of patents, the production and sale of plasterboard on Tristan da Cunha were reserved to him. The new owners were apprehensive and hesitated until they looked into the matter further and everyone had a good laugh
Lol! That's epic!
Excellent story!!
Ditto for me. I'm always putting out useless info. Most people are not interested in much of anything.
I've been interested in this place for a couple years. I've never driven deep into researching it. The History Guy drops the perfect knowledge pearls.
or you could just do as he did and read the island's website.
I saw a documentary about it a couple years ago but I really don't remember much .
As a scientist, I have pictured the introduction of wind and solar power, with a warehouse farming experiment to try and make these, plus the other island groups as self-sufficient as possible.
Even at my age, (seventy two), I would fit right in. I grew up in a very rural remote area in West Virginia. Loved it then and now. I have never fit in with the modern world. I love living close to the land and being as self sufficient as possible.
How does TH-cam fit into it?
@@mickimicki Sometimes I converse with like minded people.
yeah ... but they don't have coal mines and opioids
@@rhuephus Ah yes, the bigots with the stereotypes just have to get their two cents in don't they ? You wouldn't last one day underground in a coal mine or as a logger. Not everyone here is an addict or uneducated. Come for a visit and see for yourself.
Iaeger? Used to be fine.
It's so cool that such a place still exists.
How is the pizza delivery there?
There is also Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific.. From "Mutiny on the Bounty" fame.
@@marknewton6984 which is their favorite sports team?
The world can be and is still an exotic place. This episode reminds me of why I need a sailboat with extended cruising capacity.
Many of the residents got sick and one died when they had to evacuate to England in 1961. I would think that their immune systems are relatively subdued due to lack of exposure to pathogens. I got this information from a Time-Life book from the 1960s.
One thing that surprised me was that the book had a picture of a man named Willie Rapaletto (not sure of spelling) riding a burrow to the potato fields. I thought, "How do they have an Italian guy on the island?" I found out later that some Italians shipwrecked on the island at some point and some of them stayed.
Thanks for the great presentation. You had quite a bit of content I didn't know about.
I see from another poster that I spelled Willie's name wrong. It is spelled "Repetto".
As a retired mariner we crossed this island and St Helena on our way to Brazil. Good view from sea.Tks fr yr story.
My actual name is Tristan. I have always had an affinity for that remote part of the globe. Thanks History Guy!
I went there in 2002 when I was on HMS Endurance; a really interesting place with a unique atmosphere!
I'm so glad you made a video about Tristan! I'm incredibly fascinated at how this society can thrive in extreme isolation.
They get government subsidies from the UK. I don't think it is a set amount but if there is something of relatively high cost, it will be funded by the UK government. Tristan is getting £2.5 million (about $2.5 million) this year for renewable energy and infrastructure. St Helena had an airport built. The boats that supply the islands are, I believe, chartered and paid for by the UK government.
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What an amazing story, hats off to the residents of the island. It is truly history that deserves to be remembered.
Imagine being so plagued with rodents that you would consider moving to place called "Inaccessible Island" 😰😱
A teacher friend of mine spent two years there, recently,and has just returned.
How did they do?
@@marknewton6984 very well but two years is long enough
And ... ?
Place is more strange than I thought.
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Thank you for introducing us to new material of historic locations. I would be hard pressed to identify people of the 21st century able to establish such a community.
People can survive numerous situations when pressed.
@@KinoStudentX Some people...........
In the developed world sure. Most of the 7+ billion people on this planet live quite rough. A good many of them don't have the means to access this video.
Im a very far descendant of Tristão da Cunha. Ive been waiting for some esotaric tidbit about him😂. FINALLY
It's amazing how many problems disappear and how happy people become when we are in separate cohesive groups of 100 to 120 people and it is sad how few such groups exists despite all of the research supporting those claims. -laurence pennington
Best history info channel I've seen yet! Even the comments section is fun to read. Thanks for posting. I'm glad I've found you!
Very good job detailing the history of this island. Thank you.
What a great story. It's amazing how well they've done for themselves. Apparently a lot of the bacteria that cause tooth decay and such are simply absent from the island.
Along with sugar, of any kind apparently
Probably healthy diets too
Food supply is far more staples than all the refined foods & sugars we have in "modern society".
I always wanted to go there having lived on Ascension island and visiting both St Helena and Capetown.
You should do a video on Easter Island and Sentinel Island 🏝️
I’d love to see a video on the real “Mutiny on the Bounty” pre and post history of Pitcairn Island.
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Have you ever read the book as well? Its a crazy story!
@@bok.. No, but I’ve seen the movies, documentaries (except his until now) and read articles.
I have a massive large paperback book purchased in 1989 with a 15 digit Mastercard credit card. This trilogy encompasses all the single books on the bounty series. Written by Charles Nordhoff and James Hall. Excellent reading that gave me goosebumps and shivers at times. Based on the real history of Pitcairn Island. The books were written in the 1930s.
I'm a subscriber. I really enjoy your channel and always look forward to the next video. So far this was my favorite. Keep up the good work, friend.
I worked with a diver who had been to Tristan da Cunha to salvage an oil rig that washed up there. If I remember correctly, it was being towed from Brazil to India for scrapping and the tugs were running short of fuel, so they cut it adrift.
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Love it. Would thoroughly like tovisit and enjoy. It would be quite interesting to see The History Guy visit places such as this as part of his videos. Thank you
Amazing group of people existing off innate sense of hygiene, health, and a community of obvious love and care that's protected them from the world's calamities. Thank you, for I'd not known of the Tristan da Cunha people before. It encourages the human psyche that primitive lifestyles in a world of modernity can coexist peacefully and mostly independently. Live long and prosper! (btw - nice two-tone tie)
Tristan = Tristão in Portuguese, explorer n navy commander of King Manuel who discovered that archipelago in 1506/07 while sailing to India wth a fleet of 10 ships, together wth one of our big conquerors, Afonso de Albuquerque (commanding other 4 wsr ships). Albuquerque later on dominated all the Indian Ocean wth an iron fist, from the Malabar coast (west India) to the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf n Madagascar… (become knowned as the Orient Ceaser or Lion of the Seas). That was truly a military genius almost ignored by the anglo saxon history writers. He builded a network of powerful fortresses, declaring all the Indic Ocean “Mare Clausum” to all islamic n otomans… truly shifting the global geopolitic balance from the Orient to Europe n the West!!!
A great presentation. Fascinating story to me. Thank you!
Tristan da Cunha is also home to the most remote indigenous moth species - Dimorphinoctua cunhaensis. Which is a wingless Noctuid found nowhere else on Earth.
My dad went to TdC in the 60s while serving in the Royal Navy. He said it was one of the stranger places he visited.
Did he say why?
Absolutely fascinating!
Thanks, History Guy! Nice job!
Have you ever done a history of Lundy Island.
Maybe a video on the world's most northern permanently inhabited place, Canadian Forces Station Alert ?
Fascinating account! And thank you for properly pronouncing the phrase "long-lived." (5:47) Scholars of your ilk are a rare breed.
Fascinating, thank you
Wonderful programme. Thank you so much
I wish I had known of that place a couple of decades ago, I would have loved to move there . I can understand their love of the place and it’s solitude. I have always lived in the remotest areas I could find.
Such as where?
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I was exploring this place on Google Earth and Wikipedia just a few days ago. Great to have more in depth insight on a fascinating place and history.
How interesting..... God bless those fortunate folks! Contentment is the spice of life.
You have covered so much history of ALL SORTS. I have learned more from this channel then all my years in school and all the videos I have watched here on TH-cam. You do a great service to history.
Thank you for all the knowledge you have given me ❣️
I appreciate you, thank you for making content.
That was SO much fun! thank you.
Good for them may they retain their lifestyle and independence.
You never cease to impress us!!!!
Did a geography project on Tristan da Cunha back at school...I can still remember some of it, a lot not mentioned in this video even! (Which nonetheless is interesting and well presented...)
Truly remarkable story of resilience. Thank you for your dedication to keeping historical facts alive in a society that tends to ignore history.
One of the best history channels :)
Thank you for sharing.
I read about this in a life magazine from the early 60s
I'm curious just from the title alone, how did this island handled Covid?
so remote, so little travel, not even a single case.
Wow! Can you imagine living so far away from the rest of civilization? The stars must light up the night sky there! Enjoyed the video mate! Glad there were pirates mentioned in the video as we hate being left out! Yo ho and bottle of Rum!
It’s one of the lost treasures of the world. To be able to see the entirety of visible space with the naked eye.
Very interesting to say the least! Thank you for sharing!!!
One of your Absolute BEST!!! 💜👍.
Fascinating story! 🎉😊
definitely on my bucket list!
Omg I love Tristan da Cunha ever since I first heard about it
Good ol Asthma Island! I made a song back in 2010 called Tristan Da Cunha. Ive been fascinated with this island, it's people and history for yonks now. I'm always telling people about the place.
I sailed from Rio De Janeiro to Sao Tome in 1993 on USS Whidbey Island LSD 41 in support of UNITAS 34-93/WATC (West Africa Training Cruise)
Fascinating story!
i love seeing videos on T.D.C. thank you
There is an interesting connection between Tristan da Cunha and where I live in South Australia. In 2011 one of the islands in the group, Nightingale, ran into a bulk carrier called MS Olivia. The boat lost its life boat and 2 years latter this lifeboat landed in South Australia.
Fortunately, the community on Tristan were able to save both the crew and many birds who were covered by the wrecks' oil.
An island ran into a ship? Really?
@@fatbastard70 Well, I do like the image. What else can explain how a modern ship can run into the island?
Actually, I have read the report of the enquiry. Like many disasters, it occurred because several checks were not done correctly. If I remember correctly:
1) The person who put the ship's navigational directions into the computer directed the ship to go over the tip of the island.
2) The ship's crew was not checking the maps to ensure the path was safe. They may have even had the wrong type of map.
3) The crew were unaware that they would be going past land that night.
4) The crew on duty did note that the ship's sensors were giving strange readings. However, they presumed they were happening because of the weather conditions outside.
5) When they did realise there was a problem, there was no time to react and so the ship crashed into the island.
Outstanding!!! Thank you so very much!!! Would be a wish to go there and visit.
Awesome story THG!!! 😊
"don't all good stories involve pirates?"
- The History Guy
Pirates and rum, yes. And where there's pirates, there's rum.
Very pleasant to hear the Lexington Herald Leader quoted for something other than UK basketball, although that is very pleasant indeed!
Actually, according to modern dentistry the conditions on Tristan de Cunha are ideal for good teeth. Food that has been processed only a little or not at all leads to strong jaws and straight teeth. The absence of sugar in the diet mostly eliminates cavities.
Wonderful story. Thank you
Excellent presentation. St. Helena Island is also very fascinating. I hope to visit there someday.
Great vid like usual. I can see why they love it.
If only I had known about this years ago, I would be retired there now. Thanks for the tour, Mike
and with nowhere to drive your little red Corvette
It's not too late!
Back in the early 1960s when the population had been evacuated to England because of the eruption, the `chief` of the islanders; Willy Repetto was often in the news for insisting that the islanders be allowed to return home. The government was strongly against it but after an exploratory visit by a few islanders and government officials they eventually went back home.
THG you rock! Peace
I live in Lexington , Kentucky 😄
And sometimes read Lexington Herald Leader
Wow this was particularly interesting
I hate that I bought TH-cam Premium and have to go back and re-watch everything to keep my likes.
At least with The History Guy, there is great worth to rewatching older episodes.
Awesome thanks 👍 great work Sir
Great history of a place I did not know!
Same here! First I've heard of it!
I had a look at the Wikipedia entry for Tristan da Cunha as I am interested in the geology of landforms. I didn't find anything about rats, however there was a paragraph about house mice being a problem.
I would love to see a video done on Ascension Island!
Goony birds. Been there.
Always a groovy video
In Portuguese, the "H" following the "N" is like a tilda over an N in Spanish... so the name is pronounced CUNYA.
Great video! I believe that at 10:18, you meant to say "Brantford", Canada, instead of "Branfield". The city of Brantford, Ontario, is known for being the place where Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and as the birthplace of Wayne Gretzky. The Brantford Expositor newspaper that you quoted was founded in 1852 and is still in circulation today.
and all these years, US schools "claimed" the Bell was "American" ... We been lied to again. Next we will find out that Ford didn't invent the car (which he didn't)
Or as newspaper men used to call it the "suppository". I was engaged to the Ediotor of the Niagara Falls Review and all the papers had nicknames!
I worked there for 2 years. Wonderful place, I miss it.
Woot! Thanks for calling out my hometown news paper! The Lexington Herald, later the Lexington Herald-leader :)
AMAZING PLACE.....Thank THG🎀