* 1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

* Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha ( UK )

Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.

Others maintain that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco's frequent use of the words da, da, meaning yes, yes in the Romanian language.

Tristan da Cunha is an example of a hotspot volcano in the Atlantic Ocean.

It has also been suggested that the island may not have been discovered until 30 July 1503 by a squadron under the command of Estêvão da Gama and that da Nova actually discovered Tristan da Cunha on the feast day of St Helena.

In 1859 the Anglican Diocese of St Helena was set up for St Helena, including Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha ( initially also including the Falkland Islands, Rio de Janeiro and other towns along the east coast of South America ), the first Bishop of St Helena arriving on the island that year.

* Schulenburg, A. H., St Helena Historiography, Philately, and the " Castella " Controversy ”, South Atlantic Chronicle: The Journal of the St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society, Vol.

St Helena has a land area of 122 square kilometres and is part of a wider territory called Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which includes Ascension Island and the island group of Tristan da Cunha.

Similarly, the climate of Tristan da Cunha is marine, mild and also tempered by trade winds, although the climate is temperate in nature.

The highest point on the island is Diana's Peak at 818 metres ( 2, 684 ft ), though Queen Mary's Peak on Tristan da Cunha is the highest in the British territory at 2, 062 m.

A natural hazard on Tristan da Cunha is active volcanism, though this is not the case on St Helena itself.

* List of mountains and hills of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

* List of towns in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

* Geography of Tristan da Cunha

Category: Geography of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

pl: Geografia Wyspy Świętej Heleny, Wyspy Wniebowstąpienia i Tristan da Cunha

St Helena is the most populous part of the wider territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

The Prince Alfred visited the island in 1860 en-route to Tristan Da Cunha.

* Cross, Tony St Helena including Ascension Island and Tristan Da Cunha ISBN 0-7153-8075-3

Saint Helena, an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean, is a part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

Saint Helena had until 2009 two dependencies: Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha.

From the perspective of Arthur, perhaps the most significant effect of this great outpouring of new Arthurian story was on the role of the king himself: much of this 12th-century and later Arthurian literature centres less on Arthur himself than on characters such as Lancelot and Guenevere, Perceval, Galahad, Gawain, and Tristan and Isolde.

A case in which developer control was asserted involved Blizzard Entertainment's action against Tristan Pope's Not Just Another Love Story.

The term Dada was first used by Tristan Tzara in 1916.

Tristan Bernard ( 7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947 ) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.

He named the main island after himself, Ilha de Tristão da Cunha, which was later anglicised to Tristan da Cunha Island.

Money was introduced the following year, as was the island's first newspaper, The Tristan Times.

The St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Constitution Order 2009 was made by HM the Queen and the Privy Council on 8 July and is expected to come into operation shortly thereafter.

For example, the plant species Nertera depressa was first collected in Tristan da Cunha, but has since been recorded in occurrence as far distant as New Zealand.

The 1961 volcanic eruption destroyed the Tristan da Cunha canned crayfish ( spiny lobster ) factory, which was rebuilt a short time later.

* Tristan da Cunha is the site of a top-secret nuclear disarmament conference in Fletcher Knebel's 1968 political thriller Vanished which was adapted into a 1971 two-part NBC made-for-TV movie starring Richard Widmark.

Travesties was a Broadway hit which won two Tony Awards ( Best Performance by an Actor for John Wood and Best Comedy ), as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award ( Best Play ), and Curry's performance as the famous dadaist Tristan Tzara received good reviews.

Said to border Cornwall, it is most notable as the home of the hero Tristan, whose father was king.

These years were some of Wagner's most difficult: the 1861 Paris production of Tannhäuser was a fiasco, Wagner gave up hope of completing Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 1864 Vienna production of Tristan und Isolde was abandoned after 77 rehearsals, and finally in 1866 Wagner's first wife, Minna died.

Wagner referred to " Tristan und Isolde " not as an opera, but called it " Eine Handlung " ( literally drama or plot ), which was the equivalent of the term used by the Spanish playwright Calderón for his dramas.

Wagner's composition of Tristan und Isolde was inspired by his affair with Mathilde Wesendonck and the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.

Widely acknowledged as one of the peaks of the operatic repertory, Tristan was notable for Wagner's advanced use of chromaticism, tonality, orchestral colour and harmonic suspension.

Though Wagner was working on his epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, he found himself intrigued by the legend of Tristan und Isolde.

It was some such mood that inspired the conception of a Tristan und Isolde.

It was during the absence of the two women that Wagner began the composition sketch of the second Act of Tristan.

Originally, the tenor Alois Ander was employed to sing the part of Tristan, but later proved incapable of learning the role.

Despite over 70 rehearsals between 1862 and 1864, Tristan und Isolde was unable to be staged in Vienna, winning the opera a reputation as unperformable.