The fishery for rock lobsters in the South Atlantic off the islands of Tristan da Cunha has applied for certification by the Marine Stewardship Council. If the application is approved, the fishery will be certified as sustainable and well-managed. An article last week in the Tristan Times was based… Continue reading…
The New York Times last Thursday carried a feature about people who have sought solitude from the stresses of modern life by settling in remote places. A sidebar to the article contained brief portrayals of “Five Destinations for Solitude Seekers.” Those places include the Northern Territory of Australia, Greenland, Pitcairn… Continue reading…
The sole policeman on Tristan da Cunha rarely if ever uses the tools of his office—a truncheon, handcuffs, pepper spray, a jail cell—nor does he make arrests. He hasn’t had to. The Guardian last week included an article about Conrad Glass, Tristan policeman for 22 years, who was in England… Continue reading…
The Geo Quiz on PRI’s “The World,” an hour long radio newsmagazine show, asked listeners to identify a place that is often called “the most remote inhabited island on earth.” Broadcast weekdays by over 250 radio stations in the U.S., “The World,” for Wednesday, October 28, described the mystery island… Continue reading…
During an oral history interviewing project in September 2006, the Tristan Islanders revealed their suspicions about having their history interpreted by others. Ann Day, a British social historian, describes the project and the reactions of the Islanders to her and to her work in a recent journal article. The project… Continue reading…
The joyful inauguration of President Obama on Tuesday was celebrated by millions, but it was also a special occasion for this website. Peaceful Societies opened for public use four years ago, on January 20, 2005. The website was never intended to have anything to do with contemporary political or social… Continue reading…
On the last day of December, the Tristan Islanders celebrate Old Year’s Night rather than New Year’s Eve. However, according to the official Tristan da Cunha Website, this year there have been some changes in their normal holiday patterns. The late arrivals of two major supply ships, the MV Baltic… Continue reading…
The Tristan Times reported last week that a Constitutional Review Team would be arriving on St. Helena island on November 12th for a visit that may last about two and a half days. Tristan da Cunha, which has 268 residents, is administered as a dependency of St. Helena, a British… Continue reading…
The personal diary of Peter A. Munch, a young sociologist who joined a Norwegian scientific expedition to Tristan da Cunha in the autumn of 1937, has recently been published. Munch published his landmark dissertation the Sociology of Tristan da Cunha in 1945, and several decades later he wrote a number… Continue reading…
A new fishing factory is rapidly being fabricated in Cape Town to replace the one that burned to the ground on Tristan da Cunha in February. According to a story in the South African paper The Star on Saturday, the Cape Town manufacturing firm Anchor Steel is constructing the new… Continue reading…
