All but two of those aboard survived the shipwreck, and, subsisting on wild celery, seals, penguins, and albatross, managed to build boats some months later. It ran aground on Inaccessible Island and suffered a broken back, but the forecastle was carried inshore.
Intending to sail past St Helena, it was carried instead towards Tristan da Cunha due to adverse currents.
The first, and most dramatic, was that of the Blenden Hall, a British ship chartered to the East India Company, which set sail in 1821 with 84 passengers and crew aboard. 1997: Inaccessible Island's territorial waters out to 12 nauntical miles were declared a nature reserve under the Tristan da Cunha Conservation Ordinance of 1976.Īt least three confirmed shipwrecks have occurred off the coast of Inaccessible Island.1982: Between 16 October 1982 – 10 February 1983, students and faculty of Denstone College, Staffordshire, made detailed maps of the island, studied its flora, fauna, and geology, and carried out a marking programme on more than 3,000 birds.Tristan islanders, however, were still permitted to harvest seabirds from the island. 1976: Inaccessible Island was declared a nature reserve under the Tristan da Cunha Conservation Ordinance of 1976.Like many other explorers before them, the scientists were not able to reach the interior of the island. 1962: The Royal Society expedition of that year to Tristan da Cunha set out to map Inaccessible Island.1938: The Norwegian Scientific Expedition spent three weeks on the island, during which time they managed to gain access to the plateau and extensively catalogued plants, birds, and rocks.1922: The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition's ship, the Quest, stopped by Inaccessible briefly, and on-board naturalist Hubert Wilkins discovered a bird later named (after him) the Wilkins Bunting ( Nesospiza wilkinsi).The nearby Stoltenhoff Island is named after the brothers. The South African author Eric Rosenthal chronicled the Stoltenhoffs' adventure in 1952. They were "overjoyed" to be rescued in 1873 by HMS Challenger, visiting to examine the flora and fauna there. 1871: The Stoltenhoff brothers arrived on Inaccessible from Germany and lived there for several years intending to make a living sealing and selling their wares to passing traders (of which there were none).1803: American sealers led by Amasa Delano made landfall on the island.Notwithstanding the name, some sailors have landed on the island: Rockhopper Penguins on Inaccessible Island, drawn by the naturalist aboard HMS Challenger
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