Included are rare historical and more recent images that give insight into the nature of the island and operations there - in particular, weather-related phenomena and the meteorological station, as well as spectacular views of Gough, whose fragile, harsh, yet beautiful setting have earned it ...
The island is part of the United Kingdom Dependent Territory of Tristan da Cunha, which includes Tristan as the main island of the group, together with the uninhabited islands of Inaccessible and Nightingale. Gough has permanent habitation of about 6 people at its weather station which is run ...
The glue pot itself may have been owned by Martin Andreason, a workman in the Clairmont cabinet maker shop. Elsie Franklind Marriott in Bainbridge Through Bifocals (1941), at page 105, after describing the location of Tolo on the west coast of Bainbridge Island (just west of Seattle), says...
A Gough waterfall. These two images demonstrate the difficulty of walking on the island.On the Friday, I spent the day with the weather team, and was given the honour of launching the midday weather balloon. I left the team to do the midnight balloon. It’s a 24 hour operation!
The weather station was moved from the original site at The Glen to its current position on a plateau above Transvaal Bay in 1963. The station on Gough Island is usually manned by a team including a senior and two assistant meteorologists, a medical orderly, a radio technician, a diesel me...