. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. VASCULAR PLANTS FROM TRISTAN DA CUNHA. Fig. 8 Salt beach. Inaccessible Island, with cliffs down which tumbles a spectacular waterfall. These cliffs are mantled with tussock grass, Sparlina arundinacea, on all but the steepest slopes. February 1968. Photograph: Nigel Wace. Most of the island is covered with a thick entanglement of tussock grass and is occupied by many penguin rookeries. Stoltenhoff Island Stoltenhoff Island (Fig. 9) was named after the brothers Stoltenhoff, crew members of a whaling ship, who had asked to be landed on I
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. VASCULAR PLANTS FROM TRISTAN DA CUNHA. Fig. 8 Salt beach. Inaccessible Island, with cliffs down which tumbles a spectacular waterfall. These cliffs are mantled with tussock grass, Sparlina arundinacea, on all but the steepest slopes. February 1968. Photograph: Nigel Wace. Most of the island is covered with a thick entanglement of tussock grass and is occupied by many penguin rookeries. Stoltenhoff Island Stoltenhoff Island (Fig. 9) was named after the brothers Stoltenhoff, crew members of a whaling ship, who had asked to be landed on Inaccessible Island thinking they would make their fortune there in fur sealing. After nearly two years of disappointment and spartan existence they were taken off by HMS Challenger when she called in October 1873. Stoltenhoff Island lies about km north-west of Middle Island and is approximately 460 m long by 135 m wide. Its vertical cliffs, varying from 70 m to 80 m high, rise sheer from the sea. Only at one site, below the cliffs on the north-west side, is it possible to land, but even there this is hazardous because of the ocean swell. Like Middle Island, the centre is flat topped, rising to 100 m high, and is densely overgrown with tussock grass. Gough Island Gough Island (Fig. 10) is so called because it was sighted in 1731 by Captain Gough, master of the barque Richmond bound for China. It was no doubt, however, the same island as that reported by the Portuguese in the 16th century and named by them as Gon^alo Alvarez after the captain of Vasco da Gama's flagship (Holdgate, 1958: 75). Sealers lived ashore for varying periods of up to two years during the 19th century (Wace, 1961: 337). There has been a manned weather station on the island since Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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