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ON Tristan da Cunha 188 men, women and children live healthy, happy lives on what has sometimes been called the Lonely Isle—for Tristan is 1,400 miles from the African coast and 1,700 miles from the nearest point of South America. This very remote island received its name from the Portuguese mariner Tristão da Cunha, who was the first man to look upon its 6,000 ft. volcanic mountain which rises, sheer and frowning, from the tumultuous ocean.
Tristan da Cunha: the Lonely Isle
By Erling Christophersen. With Contributions by P. A. Munch, Yngvar Hagen, S. Dick Henriksen, Reider Sognnaes, Erling Sivertsen, J. C. Dunne, Egil Baardseth, Allan Crawford. Translated from the Norwegian by R. L. Benham. Pp. xii + 244 + 15 plates. (London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1940.) 12s. 6d. net.
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GORDON, S. Tristan da Cunha: the Lonely Isle. Nature 146, 821 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146821a0
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