Inaccessible's north-east coast is 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Longbluff on Tristan's south-west coast. This view is from about 10 kilometres away, showing the sheer cliffs which give the island its forbidding name. Visible straight ahead is Salt Beach, where the German Stoltenhoff brothers attempted to colonise the island between 1871-3. Rev Wilde organised a '5-year' farming project at Salt Beach which failed to live up to its aims and was abandoned after he left Tristan in 1940, but islanders still occasionally visit to pick the apples planted in the 1930s.

Blenden Hall The Tristan Islands' most famous shipwreck was that of the 450 ton East Indiaman Blenden Hall, which was destroyed on 23rd July 1821 after running ashore in a heavy swell in otherwise calm but foggy weather. Some 50 survivors existed through the southern winter by living off fish, sea birds and penguins before reaching Tristan on a make-shift salvaged boat. Islanders ferried the remaining survivors to Tristan where they remained until January 1822. This area has since always been called 'Blenden Hall' and was the site for the hut built by the 1982/3 Denstone College Expedition to Inaccessible . This photograph taken in December 1982 shows the Denstone Expedition departing for a Tristan Christmas break. There is still only one hut on the island (2019).