The busiest place you’ve never seen

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April 4, 2026

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Home to just 221 people, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is the only settlement on Tristan da Cunha, the world

Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island.

(Image credit: Nick Schönfeld for NPR)