There is a small 110-square kilometre island named Tristan-da-Cunha situated in the huge 822,17000-square kilometre Atlantic Ocean between the continents of South america and Africa which enjoys unenviable honour of being the most isolated human habitation on the Earth, e nearest human habitation from this island named after its discoverer, the Portuguese Admiral Tristao-da-Cunha in 1506, also happens to be another small island named St. Helena which is 2,110 kilometres distant. Having an area of 120 square kilometres and population of about 7,000, the St Helena island is famous as the home of Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile after the Battle of Waterloo.

Coming back to Tristan-da-Cunha Island, it was gradually raised from he bottom of the Atlantic Ocean by the successive layers of the cooling lava erupting due to the volcanic activity, Continuing volcanic activity has raised the volcano’s crater to the altitude of 060 metres (6,760 feet) above the ea level, Many years later, possession of this uninhabited island passed in the hands of Great Britain which established a naval base on the island in 1816 but wound it up next year while Napoleon was living on neighboring St. Helena Island.

However, three of the colonists decided to remain behind amidst pristine sylvan environment of the island. With the passage of time inhabitants increased as the lucky shipwrecks managed to reach the shore of Tristan-da-Cunha Island. The island continued to be a British possession and by 1886 the population grew to 97 souls. The volcanic activity resumed in the 20″ century and when the volcano erupted on October 9, 1961, all the inhabitants were evacuated immediately and brought to Britain, Not all the evacuees felt at home in the hustle and bustle of Britain and many (198 to be precise) returned to their small, remote island home in 1963. Today the islanders who number 370 maintain only tenuous links with the outside world,