Tristan High Coast

Between Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, navigators had to reckon with uncertain charts as well as the open ocean. Charles Gough sighted the southern island from the Richmond in 1732, but placed it some eight degrees too far east. For a long time charts treated Gough's island and the earlier Portuguese island of Gonçalo Álvares as separate places, though they were one and the same.