Located in the South Atlantic Ocean, situated between South America and Africa, lies the most remote human settlement on Earth.

It's there that a community of a little over 250 people eke out a living over 1,500 miles from the next closest humans.

Getting there is difficult and living there is probably harder.

Learn more about Tristan de Kuna and how such an isolated community manages to survive on this episode of

Everything Everywhere Daily. I've talked about remote islands on this podcast before. In particular, St. Helena

in the Atlantic and Pitcairn in Easter Islands in the Pacific. All are extremely

remote and hard to reach, although St. Elena has gotten much easier to get to since they've built their airport.

Tristan de Kuna, however, takes the prize for the most remote permanent human settlement.

The closest humans to Tristan de Kuna live in Cape Town, South Africa, 2,787 kilometers or 1,732 miles away.

To put it into perspective, that distance is longer than the distance from New York City to Denver.

If you go west, the closest point to South America is almost 4,000 kilometers or 2,500 miles away.

And if you go north, the closest settlement is also the very remote island of St. Helena,

which is 2,400 kilometers or 1,500 miles away.

So basically, there is absolutely nothing around Tristan de Kuna.

Tristan de Kuna itself is a small archipelago consisting of four primary islands Tristanakuna,

inaccessible, goth, and Nightingale islands. All of the islands other than Tristan

Acuna are nature preserves and are protected as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

It lies approximately at the same latitude as Cape Town or Buenos Aires.

The island of Tristan Nakuna was created by a volcanic hotspot similar to how Hawaii or the Canary Island were formed.

The island is mostly circular, with tall cliffs surrounding most of the island, which makes most

of the island uninhabitable or at least very difficult to access. The island is approximately 38

square miles or 99 square miles in area even though the vast majority of it is

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