Tristan da Cunha: Life on the World's Most Remote Island
Tristan da Cunha sits 2,414 kilometres from the nearest inhabited place, with one village, 222 residents, and a language that linguists call the smallest and most isolated native variety of English on Earth. This episode explores how the island's founding principle of enforced equality still shapes daily life — from two-sheep quotas to unlocked doors — and what happened when Starlink arrived in September 2024 and multiplied the territory's internet speed thirtyfold overnight. It's a story about isolation, community arithmetic, and what changes when the world's most remote island suddenly gets…
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