Tag: Tristan da Cunha

• Sunday, May 10th 2026 - 17:08 UTC

  British paratroopers drop onto Tristan da Cunha to treat suspected hantavirus case

  

  A British military team parachuted onto Tristan da Cunha on Saturday, the United Kingdom's most remote overseas territory, to assist a British national suspected of contracting hantavirus, in the first humanitarian operation of its kind carried out by the British Armed Forces. The island, home to 221 residents, has no airstrip and is normally accessible only by sea.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2025 - 16:04 UTC

  Fortuna Ltd secures Tristan da Cunha lobster concession and transport contract

  

  Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island, has awarded its prized lobster concession to Fortuna Ltd, a British Overseas Territory-based company with global seafood operations.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 08:45 UTC

  Nigel Phillips sworn as Governor of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

  

  Last Saturday 13 August, Nigel Phillips CBE, accompanied by his wife Emma, arrived to assume the office of Governor of St Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha. Governor and Mrs. Phillips were met at St Helena Airport by the Acting Governor, the Chief Minister, Chief Secretary, and the Aide de Camp and were escorted to Plantation House. Governor Phillips' last appointment was Governor of the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, November 14th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Prime Minister Johnson confirms Tristan da Cunha Marine Protection Zone

  

  More than 4.3 million sq. km of some of the world’s most precious marine environment – 1% of all the world’s ocean – will be protected following the success of the UK’s Blue Belt Programme, the Prime Minister has confirmed.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:17 UTC

  Falkland Islands, part of the largest Catholic ecclesiastic jurisdiction

  

  The Catholic Church in the British Overseas Territories of the southern Atlantic Ocean is governed by two ecclesiastical jurisdictions: the Apostolic Prefecture of the Falkland Islands and the Ecclesial Mission sui iuris of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Both of these are directly responsible to the Holy See.

• Sunday, July 22nd 2018 - 09:31 UTC

  Scot dentist travels 13.000 miles to attend Tristan da Cunha residents

  

  Once a year, dentist Penny Granger from Penicuik in Midlothian, sets off on an epic 13,000 mile round trip to a remote island in the South Atlantic. The journey involves a flight to Cape Town and then nine days on a boat in the stormy south Atlantic seas, all so she can tend the teeth of the residents of far flung Tristan da Cunha.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

  UK’s work on protecting the oceans has won deserved praise – now we must go further

  

  By Matthew Offord MP for Hendon - UK leadership on ocean conservation has won international acclaim. The landmark “Blue Belt” policy to work with the UK Overseas Territories to “create the largest marine sanctuaries anywhere in the world” has only furthered this standing, with commitments to create large protected areas around Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in 2019 and 2020 respectively already widely welcomed.

• Friday, January 22nd 2016 - 07:32 UTC

  New governor for St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha

  

  Lisa Phillips is to succeed Mark Capes as Governor of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in April 2016.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2015 - 10:17 UTC

  On St Helena Day, 21 May 2016, begins air link of the island with South Africa

  

  British Overseas Territory St Helena only link with the outside world, currently by sea, will be coming to an end in May 2016, when the proposed official opening of the airport which is being built by South African contractors, will be taking place, according to the 12 May meeting of the island's Executive Council.

• Thursday, February 5th 2015 - 09:18 UTC

  HMS Dragon calls at the remote Tristan da Cunha Island

  

  The Royal Navy's Atlantic Patrol Tasking HMS Dragon called at Tristan da Cunha, one of the most remote islands on the planet, on the latest stage of her Atlantic deployment. There is no land to the west for more than 2,000 miles, South Africa is 1,750 miles to the east and the nearest inhabited locality is another British Overseas Territory 1,510 miles away.