The charity 'Friends of the British Overseas Territories' held a Tristan da Cunha event on May 27th. Tristan's UK Representative Chris Carnegy was the guest speaker as the group gathered in a London wine bar.
Chris looked back to the events of 200 years ago, when Napoleon was preparing to confront Britain and so set-off a series of events that would lead to the garrisoning of Tristan and the founding of the settlement by William Glass. He traced the island's famous neighbourly spirit back to that era, and he talked of the challenges that life in a 'partly-connected world' brings for Tristan today, with fragile infrastructure such as the harbour and the internet connection.
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