The Dutch stopped at the island four more times in the next 25 years, and in 1656 created the first rough charts of the archipelago.
The first undisputed landing was made on 7 February 1643 by the crew of the Dutch East India Company ship Heemstede, captained by Claes Gerritsz Bierenbroodspot. Some sources state that the Portuguese made the first landing in 1520, when the Lás Rafael captained by Ruy Vaz Pereira called at Tristan for water. It was later anglicised from its earliest mention on British Admiralty charts to Tristan da Cunha Island. He named the main island after himself, Ilha de Tristão da Cunha. The islands were first recorded as sighted in 1506 by Portuguese explorer Tristão da Cunha, though rough seas prevented a landing. Portuguese explorer and conquistador Tristão da Cunha is both the namesake of Tristan da Cunha and the first person to sight the island, in 1506. There is no airstrip on the main island the only way of travelling in and out of Tristan is by boat, a six-day trip from South Africa. Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory with its own constitution. The other islands are uninhabited, except for the South African personnel of a weather station on Gough Island. As of October 2018, the main island has 250 permanent inhabitants, who all carry British Overseas Territories citizenship. The territory consists of the inhabited island, Tristan da Cunha, which has a diameter of roughly 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) and an area of 98 square kilometres (38 sq mi) the wildlife reserves of Gough Island and Inaccessible Island and the smaller, uninhabited Nightingale Islands. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 1,732 miles (2,787 km) off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa, 1,514 miles (2,437 km) from Saint Helena and 2,487 miles (4,002 km) off the coast of the Falkland Islands. Tristan da Cunha ( / ˌ t r ɪ s t ən d ə ˈ k uː n( j) ə/), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean.
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