The most remote island on earth is looking for employees
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2016
- Tristan da Cunha is situated midway between South Africa and South America and is looking for farmers- well an agricultural advisor to be specific. Report by Sarah Duffy.
The older I get, the more I want to be alone.
- Drambuie, a good book, fireplace on, comfy chair.
Antisocial springs to mind!
We all need somebody.
@@jamessim1858 - true, hubby and I love each other’s company, that’s the “alone” I enjoy. I’m tired of other people’s bad day, screwing up mine. Too many years of that bs.
Ur getting wiser and seeing the bullshit for what it is that is why
@@jayt7227 - very true sir.
This is an introvert dream place to live. Dam this would suit me wonderful
I visited Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha in April 2011. I explored Tristan da Cunha and nearby islands. There was a shipwreck with debris nearby the island a few months earlier. The islanders were respectful and cordially. The island has a rugged volcanic landscape and cool temperature year-round. Their food growth is potatoes, lobsters, fishes, and few winterized vegetables from their greenhouses. Everything is imported to the island. They are dependent on tourism and exporting precious lobsters for the island's revenues. There is no first-class hospital on the island. If you are sick or critically ill, it will be your painful nightmare. The last time the volcano erupted in 1961 when the island's inhabitants were forced to evacuate. When the volcano subsided, the inhabitants returned to the island. In the future, the volcano will erupt again. You will not like to live there forever, but only a few months or a year. It is not like the dream of Gilligan's island of the castaway living. Sorry, so many people like you are searching for sanctuary or solitude. There is no place on Earth nowadays because a growing number of people are spreading like a flea.
@@timetraveler2518 thank you for this informative comment. Really helped me to set some future goals
Wow. I got this recommended 4 years later. It looks idyllic especially in this mad world in 2020.
Me too
The government has probably figured out a way to ruin their lives w/the plandemic out there too.
This is perhaps the only livable place on Earth where my family wouldn't reach me to fuck up my existence. I'm game...
chapiit08 That's awfully sad.
I agree. I'm down for it...
Dude i reckon your family would be happy to see you go.
chapiit08 I
lol
would love to go there. looks like a dream scenario. be a farmer, peaceful life, no stupid people.. very ideal
Right. Like being a farmer is a dream job, right? Breaking your back, literally, every day. Peaceful life? As the one foreigner on the island? More like you're going to constantly be checking the words you say and your behaviour in general. It will be easy to rub people the wrong way, and you don't want to be doing that on an isolate island. No stupid people? What makes you think that? You seriously think they're all smart there? How many of them do you think go to university? What do you think the state of education in general is? Anyway, you're obviously not going there. You're just imagining something that isn't real.
BayviewFinch what a friendly comment, it almost seems like your angry 😂 I would love to be a farmer if industrial farming hadn't taken over. I mean stupid people like you causing drama, taking my words literally, toxic, as if I was 100% serious about this plan.. maybe that island is full of those people too, who knows. good thing I'm not on a boat sailing there right now...
Joe H. Whatever. LOL. Who said I'm angry? I'm just pointing out some basics. It's always people like you complaining about life as it is with these rose-tinted glasses looking at some other situation like it's all great. Give me a break. If you could talk to any of your ancestors who were pre-industrial farmers, I'm sure you would quickly learn that it's not easy. Why do you think all of those people left for the Americas when they had the chance? Why do you think farmers anywhere on the planet leave their farms? Obviously I know you're not 100% serious, yet you're the one calling ME stupid? LOL. If you were serious, you wouldn't entertain thoughts of going there, because you'd actually realize life wouldn't be any better there. Just the fact that they're looking for people to farm tells you something.
BayviewFinch complaining about life? 😂 you just cried how being a farmer would be the worst thing ever yet I've always wanted to be one! I know you are mad as you your comments strongly suggest it. My grandpa owns a farm so I have actually spoken to a farmer and several others, but nice try on acting like you know me and know what's best 😂
Joe H. You are horse shit. You're so dumb, man. You say you've always wanted to be a farmer. Lots of people think that. DOING it is a different thing though. That's what I'm trying to get through your thick skull. Just go there and do it. Report back after doing it for a year. I'll be waiting.
Been there a few times when I was still at sea. lovely island.
Did you feel like settling there?
Sweet
Lovely
Mankind can be honored. Amen.
We're you with Bank Line at the time?
In 1969 inhabitants of this island were sent to Gough Island to help find my step brother and a friend who got lost in a snow storm. These guys were brilliant but unfortunately their help was solicited too late, and they eventually found the bodies of the two men.
I am sorry about your loss. That would make a great story in and of itself. Hollywood should pursue this. 1969 was a long time ago, so, with all due respect, you must be getting up there in age, so please pen this story for posterity while you still can.
@@richardl.6143 thanks so much for your post, really appreciate it. Yes I'm over 60 now and Jannie was around 20 at that time.
The story was on the South African news from the time they were lost until their bodies were discovered.
I have tried about 2 years ago to get some information from the SA Antarctic mission with no results.
When I read your post, it came to me that I should contact the governing authority on Tristan, maybe they have something in their archives there. Warm regards.
@@johanweakley2658 Well you're younger than I anticipated. I figured around 80. But I hope I helped in some strange karmic way. I really hope you get your answers.
@@richardl.6143 65 next year to be exact 😁😁
I was a primary school boy at the time. There was 8 years between my step brother and me. Thanks for your good wishes.
Yea as far as I know my uncle got there the year there after to work as a technician on Gough island. Some interesting stories to tell.
Beautiful place love to visit it in my life
Yes
I'd love to live there; but my luck as soon as I moved there the volcano would blow up.
Lol
Hahahaha
Yeh the 2020 luck
😅😂😂😂 i thought so too .if i landed there,it'd blow up
Loool ikr😅
i have lived on a remote island, called adak, Alaska. most did well there, but others could not deal with the distances to anywhere and anything. alcoholism was rampant with a small part of the population, and the view could kill you with hypothermia or falling off a cliff, but i would go back in a heart beat
prost!
Note they (British Empire) didn't have to fight too hard to keep this one.
Lol, true.
Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch considering it's in the middle of fucking nowhere and not very strategic militarily. It's a cute little island isn't it? I bet no natives lived there either so not a bunch of genocide happening.
I just find it somewhat amusing to see that what is left are a bunch of remote islands with sheep farmers on them.
Slow day killing black people, Gunther?
Ian H. Where the hell did that come from?
An old friend of mine was named Tristan because he was born on a ship near Tristan da Cunha. Tristan Jones later became a sailor who traveled all over the world in small sailboats and later, as an author, Tristan wrote a dozen or so best-selling books about his many unique experiences.
Cap
since they had a volcano than they must have ash, ash is the best thing for the garden as fertalizer.
May be it’s ok as fertiliser but not when the ground is destroyed by it - if you visit Iceland you’ll see vast swathes of land that’s useless for farming for decades and decades
It looks like a paradise to live in. No pulution , no mass transit, just walk perhaps, and peaceful unless you’re one of the most outgoing person or most modern person who can’t live without the sophistications in the modern world.
I grew up on an Orchard from a tiny kid to 8. Than 8 to 14 I lived on a ranch and from there I grew up on Hawaii with gardens. So this would be pretty much a home to me. I like it.
I'd certainly be tempted to give this a shot.
Some will find life on this remote island heavenly and some others hellish. Looks very beautiful.
It's Tristão da Cunha! It's a portuguese name with a lot of history behind it.
Really peaceful and most beautiful Island.
I will most certainly live there.
I live here in the west indies .
I would love to live there except for the fact that I have extreme fear of talking to volleyballs
what a lovely place to live..
Somehow I remember Howl's Moving Castle watching this. There's a scene that looks like from the movie. So peaceful.
I want to live this kind of place so peaceful. I really love to live in this place
This seems like the place for me. I grew up farming in St. Vincent and have many skills to share plus studies in construction. Hmmm. All the best. It would be a blessing for anyone to live in such places...
I would love to show them how to easily triple their food production.
Tristan de Cuhna is a dream come true. I've enjoyed the remote and even solitary existence ever since childhood.
You should go there, I'd bet with such a small gene pool some new genetic add-in would do a lot of good for the island too
Man I want to live on an island community one day
How's the pizza delivery on this island?
What a beautiful place to live and raise a family. Isolated place like that would be a perfect fit for someone who wants to learn English very quick.
I am already committed to moving to another island in 2020, to live permanently.
I do wish I could visit for a few months and try to introduce permaculture and natural building to the folks of Tristan De Cunha.
I wish you all the best. If funding is available for a short stay - 2 months? - then I am a passport away!
It looks like a very cool climate. I wish they had discussed that aspect in the video.
Cool, yes, they rarely get above 80, but they don't get super cold either from what I gather. LOTS of rain, very little sunshine, and strong winds.
@@vegalyrah8576 Bet I could grow all the fresh vegies they might ever need on half an acre of poly hoop green houses. They are dirt cheap and you could grow year round in the warm climate.
If it were possible to work there for 3 to six months - maybe a year at the most with all expenses paid , I think many, many people would find the idea appealing though the reality could still be tough for those used to western cvilisation and all its trimmings.
I would go to that island in a heartbeat .
"Fuck it I'll do it" ! I mean I'm not a farmer but I could work 'for the farmer' when he gets there, do all the heavy lifting, and grunt work . "Why not" ? God knows I'm not doing anything of note here .
Talk about the whole town knowing your business.
I have an idea. Fairly confident the Bunya Pine (Araucaria Bidwillii) will grow on the island. The nuts are a good carbohydrate source and the largest of the genus. Not so sure how the plantings would go right on the ocean but hopefully towards the mountain they would take. The timber can also be used. Hope this helps.
I will send this to a friend who lives there
It's a introverts Paradise ❤️ ...
I'm off🛩️🧳👋🤣
An absolute dream scenario it would be. I could not only give them a few more viable food sources but the opportunity for major exports would put them on the top off the chain. PLEASE, give me a call you would be happy you did so
- There is no cell phone coverage.
- An Internet Cafe offers a SHARED 1Mbps connection.
- A payphone is available in the Internet Cafe...
- Wikitravel
I'm guessing the people there aren't able to afford cell phones, let alone the $100 a month for cell service.
Until they tax your business with some strange local tax. I'm sure they have their ways of keeping people in line. Besides, you don't want to be the enemy of the people on a tiny remote island.
JKflipflop If you ripped them off, you would be.
JKflipflop " I would have the entire population enslaved to my mobile service" Bastard.
sojutime: well at least there's a Damn phone to voice talk with the outside world. lol
I'm 72 and retired. I would love to live out the rest of my life on a remote island like this!
I'll come with you !
@@joannemansell3008 me too
I would love to go there, live there, don,t mind hard work. Looks peaceful. Love that.
wish I could go... perhaps the deep mulch/ back to eden methods would help them, should help conserve and replace nutrients in the soil while reducing the amount of salt getting directly on the roots not to mention heavily reducing time spent weeding.
Work there for free i will. just to get away from all this crap in South Africa
Gregg Smith. Oh, oh. South Africa shouldn't be a paradise ?
South Africa is a dump
Just waiting for this lock-in to end then im moving there
Gregg Smith it should be so amazing to live here. But when the looting, racist, short term thinking savages of the government do what they do, it’s a tragic dump. If you do go to island, be sure to start TH-cam channel of your adventure and we will all be sure to follow you. Not sure what you’ll do for WiFi tho. 😝
Go
I would love to live here. Doing hard honest farm work every day and a nice quiet home by the beach and nice cold beer to chat it up with a few lads.
Have no idea what farming is about but would love to live in a place like that. Looks so safe. Tired of looking over my shoulder
Why haven't they tapped into ocean agriculture yet? Seaweed and shellfish farms should be inexpensive and simple to set up around the island. The ocean should be their #1 agricultural resource.
They have a fishing industry and cannery that exports. Everyone on the island either farms or fishes
Great idea
Well here is your chance to help!
Well, I'm no farming expert, but if they're only growing potatoes, it must have something to do with the climate! I didn't see any satellite dishes in view, and how come there's no landing strip? Still, it seems like it could be a great one or two year gig for either someone just out of university, or somebody close to retirement age!
Bill Anthony
From the look of the land and vegetation, I'm guessing a climate very much like Scotland.
They grow other things there too. No one is allowed to settle there unless it's a needed occupation they they recruit. All property is community owned so none is for sale or rent.
I like to live there... beautiful island...❤️❤️❤️
I would love to live there. A plan is formulating in my mind
Hoe did your plan go?
If the British are serious about this place as an "overseas territory", they need to build an airstrip there and instal a standby operation in South Africa. Seven days in a trawler is just ridiculous.
Indian Abroad I was thinking the along same lines!
There's no space for an airport - St Helena only got one in 2016!
Wow only meat and potatoes? They could do better than that, growing for that amount of people would be easy. I used to grow a full acre(by myself) of all sorts of foods that fed at least 10 households year around. I planted,made and added compost, weeded plus watered. My neighbors if they weeded the row they picked from it was free, if they didn't weed, it was $1 a pound for everything including flowers. I also had an herbal garden, that I grew along with asparagus and artichokes. I mean this stuff isn't hard to do, they don't need a big crop farmer, they need several small specialty farms. They need to import small farmers to grow seasonal foods. You can feed a lot of people a wide variety this with small farms. Start a co-op, produce honey, cheeses, soaps...you name it. There some good advantages to being isolated from distant trade, for one knowing how your food is grown is a big advantage to your health.
Maybe you should have this position - in case it is still vacant!
I'm too old, but I'm sure there are some young people into this kind of growing.
+Barbara Galbreth Think climate and soil. You undoubtedly had better. Usually, pasture land is land that will sustain grasses but not food crops because the soil is too steep or too alkaline or too thin or too rocky or......
Potatoes can grow in harsh environments like Alaska.
Maybe potatoes are for vodka? I wonder if they produce any alcohol locally? If they have bees and honey they could make mead.
Frequent storms bring gale force winds causing uplift of the moist air producing persistent cloud and regular rainfall in excess of 1500mm at sea level and over 3000mm of rain and snow on the mountain.
Wind blows cow into ocean...
asparagus no can do
I would love to be there.😍😍😍
Fascinating 💖🧚✨
They could plant fields of dill and parsley.. they go so well with roast pheasant. And a nice blackberry tart, can be topped off with pastry made with suet from passing Canada Geese.
That title was very intriguing, lol, but really, I don't know...I like my modern comforts.
The ONLY problem is the internet connection. 1Mbps via satellite, shared by everyone.
Merc bro.. who needs Internet living in such a peacefull place.. just go to the local pub n chill.
Merc yup no gta online or youtube over 144p there
No spankwire :(
the only reason you need "good" internet is so you can escape from the terrible world around you for the time being on the web. there you'll only need it for news, education and mails.
and they probably all watching porn lol
My suggestion would be to cut back on the cattle, the grazing lands would be better served with trees replanted. The meat could then come from introducing escargot snail-farming, and raising Periwinkles, to feed their population.
Beautiful place amazing views. Should open up a guess house or B&B. The soil must be very rich you could grow more then potatoes there. They do organic farming, produce imported salts getting someone that is not a farmer per say but knows other ways of cultivating would be of great value to this community.
"syth africa and syth america"
*south
robsab20 Its the accent, its written as it sounds!
Thats the dublin 4 accent of ireland for you,Its basically an upper class irish accent
stoney71 not upper class, just journalist speak.
GoldenAlpha32: she sounded Irish. that's just the way they pronounce things.
i'd move there. have a half dosen beehives to pollonate. grow food . barter for what i don;t have. and slow down. if i'm healthy enough in five years I move there. how do you contact them?
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BEE HAPPY Wood Working and honeybees
Why did you leave a comment on someone trying to get a job there? He's not the employer.
BEE HAPPY Wood Working and honeybees /// me to...
Robert Brown 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'd love to live there
Calling it a volcanic island is an understatement. Last eruption 50 years ago. Even a bad storm could be a nightmare. It would make an ideal retirement community, if they have a doctor. The residents could never escape. How about a prison colony? I bet a bar would do good there.
when the volcano erupted, they have roast beef?
Roast beef ;
reminded me off the song :
This piggy went to market ; this piggy stayed home ; this piggy had ROAST BEEF and this piggy had none and this piggy went wee wee wee wee all the way home. 😎
and sufocated?
Hmmm i wonder if that song could be bovine-ist, ? hmmm if a libtard heard it would they try to get it banned? hmmmm lol hmmmmm must think about this one,
the pig at roast beef, but the cow didn't get to eat pork, that IS discrimination!! DESCRIMINATION! BEEF PHOBIC BEEEEEFFF PHOBIC, SOMEONE CALL THE ANIMAL RIGHTS PEOPLE!!!! its beef aphobiaaaaaa oh well i'm out lol : )
lol
bill thompson and potatoes. ( is that the correct spelling there???)
I feel like a LOST character. Totally Miserable life, and ready to move to the island. I'm coming Jacob.
I love to go there and to work as a farmer and live there.amazing place 😘
I'd absolutely love to live there!
I bet they need a good doctor living there, and a fully equipped med center.
Randy Woodworth have a hospital, dental facility, birthing center, etc from what I read.
+Google Name how about internet
Found that online they have an internet cafe (works via satellite uplink) that has about a few PC's and spaces for laptops. However the max speed is 1 Mbp/s (and that's shared between everyone connected!), there is no mobile phone network, they do have a pay phone in the internet cafe (bet thats not cheap).
+Rekkemmo I can live with that internet speed. Since that's the speed my internet always is.
Randy Woodworth they wont be able to pay you though.
How does one become an "Agricultural Advisor on Tristan da Cunha"? Imagine that on your resume 😁
If you are an experienced farmer you qualify I read.
I love how she says, .... lies between Sycthe America and Sycthe Africa
Very nice !
Wish I was younger.
Me too. 2021... realizing I should’ve made better choices. Lived my life more freely.
@@JB-hj8hw oh man how old r u
Imagine going as a single man, and no spare women available, or nobody that fancied you! Awful
Interesting part of their history. In the 50s they advertised on the mainland for wives and some women went to the island and settled there. 1 woman brought asthma with her and doomed the future generations to short lives, and to this day all the population have chronic asthma and some die young.
Simon George Or imagine being the only gay in the village. 😂
kdmc40 wish I'd thought of that lol!!! 😅😅
in a tiny community like this i think they probably keep there options open by swinging both ways. You have be practical and pragmatic
i saw some handsome sheep in the video..heh
Beautiful Island
I dream about living in a place like that and I have a lot of farm experience(livestock and crops).I can even brew beer and make whiskey. All true. :-)
Go for it
Do you recruit foreigners from any country ?.I love to live there and I was in Isolation places before
I think jail time counts against you.
I don't think he got the joke ....
English German colonization
I wanna work and live there
No one is allowed to move there. Everyone on the island is descended from the original 15 people who settled there, except for 4 others who married women from there.
I would gladly live there.......
... if ...
BayviewFinch if
Lovely and peaceful island
Paradise on earth! Makes me remember the ZX Spectrum game Cyclone.
"Salary"? if I was to go there, I'd expect there to be no money and any transactions to be based on barter.
BaddaBigBoom
The whole world uses money, hippie.
If it had high speed internet, I'd be perfectly fine there.
As soon as tesla starlink internet comes on you will be good!
wow nice place...dream place to stay and live...
I purchased a coin awhile back that was attributed to this island. Of course they don't have a mint. It was made in the UK as a novelty in their name. It is an official Royal Mint strike. Before my purchase I never heard of the place, but the coin struck my curiosity and I researched it. I instantly fell in love. I can't get enough of the place. I find myself fantasizing living there. How lucky those people are.
However, they do have some vulnerabilities. First what comes to mind is defense. A pirate ship, or other rogue vessel, could pull up and terrorize the inhabitants. I'm really surprised it hasn't happened already. These people have nice homes, just waiting to be looted. I hope they have guns. They really should have a couple of howitzers just in case. Maybe they do and aren't telling. I hope so. It would take a long time for the Royal Navy to come to their defense.
Of course another fear would be tsunamis. Though I thought I read the highest point is a couple of thousand feet, well above the danger zone short of a meteor strike, a tsunami could hit before they had time to react. They're much more in touch today.
What I really find fascinating is times past when people would go decades without contact. Like no contact between 1909 and 1919. That means World War I came and went without them even knowing about it!
Going way back, in the Napoleonic era, there were only two brothers there for decades. Definitely the most permanently isolated men in history. 1000 miles away from any human on land in any direction! One could argue about Admiral Byrd, etc., but they didn't settle there. It was temporary.
I can't get enough of this place.
This sounds amazing. I have ton of experience with livestock, cattle, horses, goats, chickens etc. I also grow a huge organic garden every year. Please let me know who to contact...thanks
So ??? Did u get there ?? Would love to know.
@@michellebruton6287 pls how can I get to that place n work them with agriculture
@@michellebruton6287
You can count it as a 'NO'.
😁 well I'm still willing. Sewing machine under one arm, crochet hook in the other , and a ginormous bag of veggie seeds
Last volcanic eruption was in 1965? So it's an active volcano then. I bet it gets earthquakes too. Lovely!
dlwatib. YEP, happy life, and more, they don't speak about the weather. Hopefully they have two Pubs.
Dont worry free holiday and new house every 50 years :D
barbara, you've written a long comment and it has an embedded idea about consumption which is hard to be counted plus doing so brings old market trust into harvested soil since knowing how much needed food for how many number of people periodically will improve our economical life, hopefully that sound good
If you would have said 50,000 years ago I may have considered but a volcanic eruption 50 years ago is like a billionth of a second in geological time.
i wish i had those job skills i would be on the next boat
Sounds to me some change in diet such as tree based crops and some green houses might be in order.
Honestly, I could see myself living very happily there. Seems like my kind of place.
Balai Hai
Wish I had the skills, would go in a heartbeat.
I would love to go there 💗😊
I want to go an work there provided accomodation is with job ? ✌🏼👀
Give me Directv and internet there, and I might not leave.
lol
Gammareign
And some willing sheep?
Hope you like Satellite internet with a 10 Megabyte cumulative cap for $600/Month.
That's a very baaaaad thing to say!
It'll take a while - they only got live TV fifteen years ago courtesy of the British Forces, despite there being no troops, while telephone calls used to be via the astronomically expensive Inmarsat, although now they have a link with the UK, so all phone numbers have the London area code. You'd need that as Skype would be unusable.
I’d love to move there honestly.
I agree with the person at the end who said living there for a short term would be cool
The people who live here would be ideal candidates for a Mars mission. What happens if you have an argument with the rest of the community?
Torches and pitchforks at midnight!
kdmc40
Grew up on a farm next to a town where Everybody was related, except a few families, such as ours. You learned Very young to MYOB! 😂😂😂😂😂
You are spaced out!
They need to use the Raingutter Grow System and grow more food than they could eat. You Tube it to believe.
I live on Tristan and I'm sending this comment by a bottle so I have no idea when you will get this. Tristan is a good place to live if you get along with neighbors
I'd love too live there ❤
Even though I'm not a farmer, I can fix things and run anything in a machine shop.
***** Is it too late to learn? I'm 51, a little fluffy in the middle due to beer, but I have nice hair. Do they mind male lap dancers?
alright guys ill see you all later im moving
You did notice that they didn't show the woman of this wonderful island.
yeah your right
+riphaven lol
He could carry a very durable blow-up doll.
Michael Guzman 7 days on a fishing boat shoot me now
Why wouldn't they have huge gardens, less cows, and rabbits, and poultry. Looks like it would work for apple trees, and fruit bushes, rhubarb etc.
Maybe one day I'll stop by on my sail boat. How about that.
It reminded me of back home.
I'm from one of the islands of the Azores. Faial.
Looks lovely but maybe just a bit too remote for me!!