World's most remote job? This island is looking for staff (video)

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The Most Remote Island on Earth Is Looking for Employees
The Most Remote Island on Earth Is Looking for Employees


Fancy escaping the rat race?

You can't get further away than this.

Tristan da Cunha is an island situated midway between South Africa and South America and it's looking for an agricultural advisor.

It has 265 residents, as much coastline as you could possibly want and there even happens to be a volcano too.

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If you know something about tending livestock and crop rotation, the islanders are hoping this could be the place for you.

The island is looking for a farmer to help them increase their food production and make them less reliant on imports.

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From Tristan da Cunha it's seven days on a fishing boat to the nearest mainland.

However working on the island could be challenging, says one agricultural advisor who did the job a few years ago.

Sam Kent used to do the job himself, he said: "There's about 1,500 acres of grassland on which they run cattle and sheep and they also have a small area where they grow potatoes but that's the sum total of the agriculture."

The island, which has been described as the 'loneliest human colony on earth', is a British overseas territory.

Tristan hit the headlines in the early 1960s when a volcano forced its inhabitants to be evacuated.

They were first to South Africa 1,500 miles away and then to England. But when they returned not all of them seemed happy to be back on the most remote, inhabited island in the world.

Islander Basil Lavarello shared his feelings in 1965, saying: "If they had a vote not for people to return to England I'd say three-quarters of the community would just turn back there again."

Basil went on to explain that he would be one of the people willing to leave the island.

But it seems as if Basil and his family didn't leave as his first cousin, once removed, is still living on the island and he maintains that it's the dream place to live and work.

He said: "It's very pristine and of course there's no crime and I think anyone who comes here for a short term contract enjoys it so much they are always saying they'd like to come back."

So, would you try your hand at living on the most remote, inhabited island on earth?



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