Nightingale Island

As I was looking for something interesting, I found something that I never thought I would find, the Nightingale Island.

The Nightingale Island is an island in the Atlantic Ocean.  It is 3 km² in area, part of the Tristan da Cunha group of islands. They are administered by the United Kingdom as part of the overseas territory of Saint Helena.

Nightingale Island is part of the Nightingale Islands, which also includes islets Middle Island and Stoltenhoff Island. All three are uninhabited, but are regularly visited for scientific purposes and research. 

The Nightingale Island has two peaks on its north end. One is 335 m (1100 ft) high; the other is 293 m (960 ft) high. The rest of the island is ringed by cliffs. However, these cliffs are not nearly as high as those surrounding Nightingale's neighbor Inaccessible Island, which is approximately 16 km away and has cliffs approximately 300 m high. Thus human access is much easier on Nightingale than on Inaccessible.

There are two nearby islets are called Stoltenhoff (99 m) and Middle (46 m).

The Nightingale Island was discovered along with Tristan da Cunha and Inaccessible Island in 1506 by Tristão da Cunha.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch and French governments as well as the British East India Company considered taking possession of Nightingale Island (as well as Tristan and Inaccessible), but declined due to lack of landing space.

In 1656, the Nachtglas, which also made a landing at Inaccessible, landed at Nightingale. Nightingale was originally named Gebroken Eyland (the Broken Island), but it was later renamed after Gamaliel Nightingale, who explored the island in 1760.[1]

In 1961 an earthquake on Tristan da Cunha forced the inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha to evacuate to Nightingale. They eventually returned to the United Kingdom, returning to Tristan in 1963.

Wildlife conservation efforts are ongoing on Nightingale. The previous conservation workers' sheds were severely damaged in a hurricane in 2001. Repair is ongoing, but to continue carrying out the conservation work, all of the damaged shacks on the island need to be repaired. The United Kingdom established funding for a conservation effort on Nightingale for 2004-2006.

Nightingale Island is known as a breeding ground for various types of seabirds; over a million birds are estimated to breed on the island, with Great Shearwaters being among the most abundant. There are four wetland areas on the island which each contain hundreds of Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses. As with Inaccessible Island, Nightingale also has a breeding colony of Rockhopper Penguins.

Inaccessible and Gough Islands are strict nature reserves with no tourism permitted. However, tourists are permitted to go to Nightingale.

Many tourists to Tristan da Cunha visit Nightingale Island for the wildlife. Non-Tristanians can travel to Nightingale only with a guide from Tristan. Part of the money they pay the guide goes 

toward paying for the conservation work being done on the island. Once a year, filmmakers and journalists are permitted to work on the island (for a fee), but they are not allowed to interfere with the private lives of the Tristanian islanders. Also, Tristan natives visit Nightingale on holiday. The economy of the Island is Fishing. Fishing companies fish off of the coast of Nightingale, just as they do with Inaccessible.

• Taken From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  
  
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