article_snippet.sent: (CNN)It lays claim to being the most isolated human settlement on earth, a volcanic archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, home to just under 270 people.
article_snippet.sent: As a sign of just how removed Tristan da Cunha is from the rest of the world, there are only seven family names on Islands.
article_snippet.sent: In total, Tristan da Cunha is made up of four islands.
article_snippet.sent: Tristan is the largest land mass and the only one to house people.
article_snippet.sent: Two more unpopulated islands, Nightingale and Inaccessible, lie close by.
article_snippet.sent: As it is the remotest inhabited island in the world, the Tristanians are already very self sufficient, being able to produce many of the Tristanians own foodstuffs (like fish, livestock and potatoes)," Mitcham said.
highlights_snippet.sent: Islands are most isolated inhabited archipelago on earth .