Tristan da Cunha Island Edinburgh, St Helena UK
United Kingdom

25 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Seabourn Cruise Line (24 Cruises)

Silversea Cruises (1 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

No, and you should know it before you sail: roughly one visit attempt in two fails. The tiny Calshot harbour, cut for the local fishing boats, closes as soon as the swell rises, which is most days of the year. The call then becomes a scenic sail along the cliffs.
Offshore, since no facility on the island can take a cruise ship. Passengers reach Calshot harbour by zodiac when the captain judges the weather window favourable.
Because it lies about 2,400 kilometres from the nearest inhabited land, in the middle of the South Atlantic. Its single village, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, has around 250 residents sharing seven surnames, descended from a handful of nineteenth-century settlers.
Everything is covered on foot in an hour: the low houses with coloured roofs, St Mary's Anglican church, the Albatross pub, the community café, the school and the post office, reputed the most isolated in the world, where collectors buy sought-after stamps.
A volcanic eruption forced the complete evacuation of the population to England. Two years later, against all expectation, almost every islander chose to return. A black lava flow still edges the village, and a small museum keeps alive this memory, now a symbol of local attachment to the island.
Not during a cruise call. Queen Mary's Peak rises above 2,000 metres and is only glimpsed when the clouds allow. The ascent takes several days, a permit and local guiding: it appears in no shore programme.
Crayfish fishing supports the community, alongside subsistence farming and island services. Residents greet visitors with reciprocal curiosity: ships bring new faces only a handful of times a year.
Sterling and English. Card payment is not reliable on the island: bring cash for the post office, the community café and local crafts.
Not really. This is an expedition call with no tourist infrastructure, an uncertain landing and zodiac transfers. It suits travellers who come for the rarity of the place and accept in advance that the sea may decide otherwise.
The southern summer, November to March, when expedition ships cross the South Atlantic and the swell leaves slightly more openings. Even then, no date removes the risk of the landing being called off.