世界最偏僻城镇,日常生活如何运转? How The Most Isolated Towns Actually Work

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在南大西洋的风暴之海中,藏着地球上最孤绝的有人居住地——特里斯坦-达库尼亚。1500英里外是最近的陆地,6天船程才能抵达。这里没有机场,没有便利店,只有240人与大海、火山和时间对峙。他们如何生活?为何不离开?

This is Tristan de Cunha, the most remote inhabited island on Earth.

It's in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, far away from literally everything.

The nearest inhabited land is Saint Helena, 1500 miles away.

But even they are isolated too.

The closest mainland is Cape Town, South Africa, another 250 miles beyond that.

And it's only from here in which you can go to Tristan de Cunha, with a 6 day boat ride since there is no airstrip on the island.

And Tristan isn't a one-off type of remote location.

There are the Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific, which takes a flight to Tahiti, then a flight to Mangreva, French Polynesia, before boarding a 32-hour ship ride to get to.

Or even if we're not to look at islands, like, and I don't know how to say this, Ittoqqortoormiit on the eastern edge of Greenland.

There are no roads connecting it to the rest of the country for hundreds of miles.

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