Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha Group is an archipelago of fairly small islands in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a territory of the United Kingdom and consists of the five islands of Tristan da Cunha, Inaccessible Island, Nightingale Island, Middle Island, and the Stoltenhoff Island. Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world – to be exact, it lies 2,430 km from its nearest land (St. Helena) and over 2800 km to the nearest continent Africa -Cape of Good Hope.
The island of Tristan da Cunha forms a circular-shaped volcanic cone with a circumference of 34 km with avarage10 km in diameter and total area of 98 km². The central peak of the island, rising to 2,060 m, is the summit of an active volcano that rises over 5,700 m above the ocean floor. Situated in the South Atlantic, summer on Tristan da Cunha falls between December to March. During the winter months the central peak, rising to a height of 2010m, is covered in snow. Tristan rises out of the ocean, its volcanic peak crowned with an almost permanent cap of white cloud.
