Inaccessible island is well named. It is an uninhabited rock in the South Atlantic ocean that belongs to Tristan da Cunha, a British dependency which itself vies with Easter Island for the honour of being the most remote inhabited place on the planet. Go there, though, and you will find its coast is covered with litter. That, at least, has been the experience of Peter Ryan of the University of Cape Town, in South Africa. Since 1984 Dr Ryan, an ornithologist, has been visiting Inaccessible and, along with his other studies, recording the litter stranded on the island's beaches. This week, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, he has published the results.
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机译：人迹罕至的岛屿得名。它是南大西洋无人居住的岩石，属于特里斯坦·达库尼亚（Tristan da Cunha），后者是英国人的附属物，它本身与复活节岛（Easter Island）争夺是世界上最偏远的有人居住的地带。到那里去，你会发现它的海岸覆盖着垃圾。至少，这是南非开普敦大学的Peter Ryan的经验。自1984年以来，鸟类学家Ryan博士一直在访问Inaccessible，并与他的其他研究一起记录了滞留在岛上海滩上的垃圾。本周，他在《美国国家科学院院刊》上发表了研究结果。
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