Why 250 People Live 2,400 km From Anyone | How People Live In Tristan da Cunha

How People Live In Tristan da Cunha | Why You Can't Move Here In May 2026, a military doctor and an intensive care nurse parachuted onto Tristan da Cunha, because the island's small hospital was running low on oxygen and the nearest airport was 1,510 miles away. 222 islanders call this place home. If you wanted to join them, you couldn't. This is how life on the remotest inhabited island in the world actually works. How you get there, on one of nine scheduled sailings from Cape Town this year. Why outsiders aren't allowed to buy land or settle. What happened when a volcano forced every islander to leave in 1961, and why they voted 148 to 5 to go back. How Tristan Rock Lobster helps pay for the doctor and the school. And what the first settlers signed in 1817.