The 'Tristan da Cunha Newsletter' is a full colour magazine for members and islanders published twice per year. It has news and feature articles, lavishly illustrated with photographs that do not appear on the website.

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 The Newsletter is distributed free to members and to island families.
Spare copies are initially reserved for new members or extra copies for members. - see the Association Shop for details.
Please note: Longer articles and many images are reserved for the newsletter and not available on the website.

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February 2025 Newsletter

44 pages of Tristan news and features

Published in February 2025.

Contents:

  • Cover: Damien Swain pausing on the Patches Road carrying a bag of potatoes. Photo: Julia Gunther
  • Death of Michael Swales
  • Island Council Matters
  • Report from Administrator Philip Kendall
  • Chief Islander's eventful 2024 UK trip, by Chris Carnegy
  • Shipping News
  • Communications feature:
  • Starlink transforms island internet services, by Simon Butters
  • Tristan's healthcare service aids another mid-ocean medevac
  • Radio Ham Lance Collister's 'Moon Bounce'
  • Family and Church News
  • Latest stamps from the Tristan Post Office
  • Saving Tristan's Phylica trees and large-billed buntings
  • Inaccessible Island matters, by Peter Ryan & Coleen Moloney
  • When the Dutchman met the Pastor: trouble and strife in 1880s Tristan, by Neil Robson
  • Tristan Association Matters including the 2025 Annual Gathering
  • Sports Report
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August 2024 Newsletter
Contents of the 'Tristan da Cunha Newsletter', August 2024.
12-Aug-2024
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Newsletter Editor: Richard Grundy - Email: newseditor@tristandc.com

Newsletter Contributions

Items for future editions are very welcome. Contributions must have some connection with Tristan da Cunha islands

Articles

  • Please outline your proposal and send it by email to Richard Grundy in the first instance.
  • Please send the text of your contribution by email as an attached Word document.

Photographs

  • Image files should be attached separately to emails and not solely embedded in Word documents.
  • High resolution images are needed to achieve good print quality as PNG or JPEG files.
  • Very high-quality images in portrait orientation are needed for the front cover – e.g. over 8MB.
  • If your files are too large for your email system, they can be sent using free online services such as WeTransfer.

It will be assumed, unless specifically requested otherwise, that items offered for use in the newsletter can also be used for the website and by the Tristan Association in other publications.