Welcome to Tristan Da Cunha (.org)!

Welcome to Tristan Da Cunha (.org) - an information website about the remotest island in the World, Tristan Da Cunha. To be exact, it lies 1,750 miles from its nearest land (South Africa) and over 2,000 miles away from South America. For more details on its location/nearest islands, please view our Nearest Islands page.

Tristan was first discovered in 1506 by the the Portuguese sailor Tristão da Cunha, however since Tristan's islands are hard to access and due to the rough seas, Tristão was unable to land on Tristan. Despite this, Tristão named the island Ilha de Tristão da Cunha (roughly 'The islands of Tristão da Cunha'), before being modified to Tristan Da Cunha at a later date.

This remote island is a dependency of the British Overseas Terrority of Saint Helena. Tristan Da Cunha's motto is "Our faith is our strength", and its National Anthem is the British God Save The Queen. The island's capital (and most populated city) is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, more commonly called just Edinburgh. In 2005, the British mail company Royal Mail assigned Tristan the post-code of TDCU 1ZZ - this was to counter the fact that mail was getting lost because the island had no post-code and also the capital - Edinburgh - was being confused with the Scottish city Edinburgh.

The territory consists of three islands - Tristan Da Cunha (aprox. 38 square miles), the uninhabited Nightingale Islands, and the officially declared wildlife reserves of Inaccessible Island and Gough Island. For further general information about Tristan Da Cunha, please view our About Tristan page.

All Tristan's citizens who are able to work are farmers by trade. All land is communally owned, and various measures are in place to prevent better off families from gaining excess wealth. The main source of income is the country's lobster factory. Most people have more than one job, many working for the local government also. If you want, view more information about Tristan's economy.