Talk:History of Tristan da Cunha

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There seems to be a contradiction in the text, which is perhaps caused by relying excessively on the 1911 edition of Britannica. How can several hundred people have been evacuated due to a volcanic eruption, if the population had reached its "peak" around 1880, and then been cut back to only 4 adult males (plus an unstated number of women and children) by the loss of fifteen men in a boating accident in 1883---which implies a total population of well under 100 at the island's population "peak"? ---Seaside rendezvous (Oct. 10, 2007)