🌿 Gough and Inaccessible Islands

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Gough Island, also known historically as Gonçalo Álvares, is a rugged volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a dependency of Tristan da Cunha and part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. It is approximately 400 km (250 mi) south-east of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, 2,400 km (1,500 mi) north-east from South Georgia Island, 2,700 km (1,700 mi) west from Cape Town, South Africa, and over 3,200 km (2,000 mi) from the nearest point of South America.

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Gough and Inaccessible Islands is a natural World Heritage site in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Gough and Inaccessible Islands was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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