Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting of the island of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha.
Its name was Saint Helena and Dependencies until 1 September 2009, when a new constitution came into force giving the three islands equal status within the territory.[6] Despite this change, the whole territory is still commonly referred to as simply Saint Helena after its main island.[citation needed] Similarly, the demonym Saint Helenians (or “Saints”) and the derived name for the local nationality is commonly understood to include Ascension Islanders and Tristanians, as well.
Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha (/ˌtrɪstən də ˈkuːn(j)ə/), colloquially Tristan, is both a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 1,511 miles (2,432 km) off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa, 1,343 miles (2,161 km) from Saint Helena and 2,166 miles (3,486 km) off the coast from the Falkland Islands.[5][6] The territory consists of the main island, Tristan da Cunha, which has a diameter of roughly 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) and an area of 98 square kilometers (38 sq mi), the smaller, uninhabited Nightingale Islands, and the wildlife reserves of Inaccessible Island and Gough Island. As of October 2018, the main island has 250 permanent inhabitants who all carry British Overseas Territories citizenship. The other islands are uninhabited, except for the personnel of a weather station on Gough Island.
Tristan da Cunha is part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. This includes Saint Helena and also near-equatorial Ascension Island, which lies some 1,741 miles (2,802 km) to the north of Tristan. There is no airstrip of any kind on the main island, meaning that the only way of travelling in and out of Tristan is by boat, a six-day trip from South Africa.
addresses
N. Guem
27 Back St
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
TDCU 1ZZ
Tristan da Cunha
N. Guem
27 Back St
Edinburgh
Tristan da Cunha
TDCU 1ZZ
South Atlantic Ocean
Mssrs Gustav and Frederick Stoltenhoff
Port David
Inaccessible Island
TDCU 1ZZ
Tristan da Cunha
I have included Inaccessible Island in my list of addresses because I hope the local postmaster will find humor in the return to sender letters – the recipient is the two brothers who made the island their home – and promptly left after the abject failure of trying to hunt penguins.
Gough Island is inhabited by members of a South African natural science mission. A single boat visits each year; determining mail delivery turn around times would be a foolhardy proposition.