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...residents of Tristan da Cunha, "world's loneliest island," in the South Atlantic midway between South Africa and South America, possess no cinema, no radio, no automobiles, no police, no liquor, live in rigidly moral communism on potatoes and fish, have practically perfect teeth and general health. Of mixed English-Scotch-Irish-American-Dutch-Italian-African descent, most of their ancestors got to the bleak volcanic island by way of shipwreck. Also from a wrecked ship, in 1882, arrived rats which multiplied faster than mariners...
...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...
...shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...
Died. Dr. Gastao da Cunha, famed Brazilian diplomat, onetime (1919) Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1920) Ambassador to France, onetime Ambassador to Portugal, onetime (1921-22) President of the League of Nations Council; after a long illness, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...