During one of our recent games, think against Birmingham, Kris and Willo were talking about Tristan da Cunha, can’t remember in what context now, could be one of the players was from there.
At the back of my memory that name rang a bell and this is why.
What reminded me today was another story at the end of this post on Sky News website. Put it on this thread, but it could also be a candidate for the Good News thread.
Fifty years ago a village in Hampshire forged an unlikely link with one of the most isolated communities on earth.
In October 1961 the isolation of the few hundred residents of Tristan da Cunha in the south Atlantic was shattered when the volcano which dominates the island threatened to erupt.
As citizens of the British Overseas Territory of St Helena, they were evacuated to England and ended up living at the former RAF flying boats base at Calshot on the shores of Southampton Water.
Tristan da Cunha islanders remember life at Calshot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15002723
The waters around a remote British overseas territory in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean are to become one of the biggest marine sanctuaries in the world.
The government of Tristan da Cunha has declared a 687,000 square kilometre (265,000 square mile) marine protection zone in its waters - three times the size of the UK.
The new reserve will act as a no-take zone, meaning that fishing and other harmful activities will be banned, in an effort to protect the wildlife found on, and around, the chain of islands, including albatross, penguins, whales, sharks and seals.
https://news.sky.com/story/tristan-...-worlds-most-remote-inhabited-island-12130923