Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

About Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

:''See also: Edinburgh (disambiguation)''

Map of Tristan da Cunha showing Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

'Edinburgh of the Seven Seas' is the main settlement of the island of Tristan da Cunha, a territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean and administered as a dependency of Saint Helena. It is named after Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria. Locally it is always referred to as ''The Settlement''.
The settlement was founded on Tristan in the 1815 after the UK annexed Tristan da Cunha. A military garrison was maintained on the Islands as a guard against any French attempts to rescue Napoleon, imprisoned on Saint Helena. The military garrison remained until the end of World War II.
Edinburgh is the only major settlement of Tristan, and contains a small port, the Administrator's residence, and the Post Office. It was badly damaged in a volcanic eruption on the Island in 1961 which forced the entire population to abandon the Settlement and move to the UK. The few that stayed in Edinburgh of the Seven Seas thought up an ingenious system to set up hoses that would automatically spray water on the lava, to cool the lava at the front, and send the rest behind it to change course or to freeze. The eruption destroyed Edinburgh's crawfish factory, and pirates looted the abandoned buildings.
After the return of most of the Islanders in 1963, the Settlement was rebuilt.
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is regarded as the most remote permanent settlement in the world, being over 1,500 miles (2400 kilometers) from the nearest human settlement, on Saint Helena.

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