The world's most remote inhabited island is a volcanic outpost
Tristan da Cunha is a tiny volcanic archipelago in the South Atlantic where a small community lives over 1,500 miles away from the nearest human settlement.
Tristan da Cunha holds the record as the most isolated permanent human settlement on Earth. Located midway between South Africa and South America, its 250 residents live on an active volcano rising directly from the ocean floor.
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