NEXT UP IN A to Z would be Tristan da Cunha, a tiny island in the south Atlantic which had been, until recently, a dependency of another tiny island which is a British overseas territory.
Only a few hundred people live there, yet they make coins. I thought to myself: I can’t make a full article out of this situation, can I? Turns out I can. There are oddities. For quite a while, I read, they used potatoes as money. And, recently, they made non-circulating legal tender coins for some dependencies of their own, tiny islands without human inhabitants. The trend of opinion of the comments on the internet is that that is kind of strange. So, there is a story to tell. Here it is.
Tristan da Cunha is a volcano in the southern Atlantic Ocean. There are some other small islands in the general vicinity: an island called Inaccessible, a group of three called the Nightingale Islands, which includes Stoltenhoff Island and Middle Island, and, about 250 miles away, Gough Island. These other islands are dependencies of
