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Tristan da Cunha Island Visit Details By Travel Writer
George Collins recounts a sea voyage between South America and South Africa and a stop at Tristan da Cunha. He describes isolation, harsh living conditions, diet largely of potatoes, intermarried residents, multiple nationalities, and the unusual social customs and marriages on the world’s most remote inhabited island in the South Atlantic.
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George Collins
South America
South African
Tristan da Cunha
South Atlantic Ocean
Cape Town
New York
Grif
Tristan
Earth
Lonely Isle
United States
Glass
Green
Rogers
Swain
Hagen
LavercHo
Mariiew
Iskal
Mike
St. Helena
Africa
Betty” Cotton
Barrow
Sam Swain
Bil Green
Sam
Wiktow Haven
Broadway
Tristan da Cunhi
A. Hendblass
Council of State
Cape Tawny
Als
R. A. C. Pooley
England
Rev. Partridge
Pooley
Montevideo
Uruguay
Fangly Isle
Rev. Pooley
Rev, Pooley
Tam