Word: cunha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lonely island of Tristan da Cunha, 2,000 mi. west of the Cape of Good Hope, the S.S. Atlantis put ashore last week Rev. Harold Wilde, 40, Anglican minister, and twelve tons of supplies. He will remain on the island for at least three years, caring for the souls of its 66 inhabitants who have had no minister for two years...
...Tristan da Cunha, Great Britain's quartet of tiny, romantically named islands in the South Atlantic-Inaccessible, Nightingale, Tristan, Goughs-two young British explorers last week announced they would go for two years. Francis K. Pease, 27, veteran of two Antarctic expeditions, and Edward B. Marsh, 21, will take food to about 200 islanders on Tristan, reduced to a potato diet because their exhausted soil will grow little else. They will try to move the inhabitants to the virgin soil of Inaccessible, study meteorological conditions and the islands' possibilities as a South Atlantic airline base...