Tristan da Cunha – the island

Sue Scott has been visiting the remote south Atlantic island group of Tristan da Cunha regularly since 2004 to study the islands' marine life. See here for a gallery of underwater life around the islands.

These visits also provided an invaluable opportunity to photograph the island and its inhabitants – both human and wildlife. The gallery below shows a small selection of Sue's photographs from Tristan.

Sue would be delighted for her photos to be used in publications celebrating the life of these remote islands; please contact her here to discuss your needs.

Note that this website only allows us to display extremely low resolution images; all the photographs displayed are available either as 35mm transparencies or as high-quality digital images with a minimum size of 2GB.

All images in this gallery copyright Sue Scott

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SETTLEMENT FROM VOLCANO Ths island settlement (officially known as Edinburgh of the Seven Seas) from the site of the 1961 volcano.	THE SCHOOL The School is typical of the island architecture.
FISHING BOATS Fishing (mainly for rock lobsters) is vital to the survival of the small human community on Tristan. Right: The bog fern (Blechnum palmiforme) is a conspicuous feature on the lower slopes of The Peak to 800m. It is a tree-like fern, standing up to 1.6m tall.	BOG FERNS AND SUMMIT
ATLANTIC YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS (Thalassarche chlororhynchus) With a wingspan of 2m, these handsome seabirds are a conspicuous feature in the seas around Tristan. Right: Around 20,000 of them breed on Tristan, Nightingale and Inaccessible Islands, where they are known locally as 'mollies'.	YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS CHICK
NORTHERN ROCKHOPPER PENGUIN (Eudyptes moseleyi) More than 90% of the world population breed on Tristan.	NORTHERN ROCKHOPPER PENGUIN Here on Nightingale with Tristan in the background.
SOOTY ALBATROSS (Phoebetria fusca) Around 2,000 pairs of this elegant seabird breed on Tristan. Right: The Tristan Thrush (known locally as Starchy) (Nesocichla eremita) is endemic to Tristan (where there are less than 50 pairs), Nightingale (400 pairs) and Inaccessible (850 pairs).	STARCHY (TRISTAN THRUSH)
BROAD-BILLED PRIONS	SUBANTARCTIC FUR SEAL (Arctocephalus tropicalis) A pup hiding out in one of the shacks on Nightingale Island. Left: Broad-billed prions (Pachyptila vittata) gathering around their nest sites in the Nightingale shacks at night.

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