![]() She spares no details and never looks away in this excessively and rightfully violent revenge saga driven by female rage. Jennifer Kent, who made a splash with her debut thriller, The Babadook, understands how to present feminism on film with her brutal, unblinking, unforgiving, follow-up, The Nightingale. She's right! My world has been turned upside down! Chores don't come with genitals! I consider myself so lucky to not have to struggle with this issue and to be able to see the world through this lens. One day, one of my sisters turned to my father and said, "Dad, I wasn't born with a dishwashing gene." A light bulb went off in my seven-year-old head. Boys would take out the garbage and mow the lawn while the girls would set the table and do the dishes. As the youngest of eight children whose parents divvied up family chores according to strict gender lines, I saw right through the ridiculous role-playing exercises our society demanded of us. My mother, resenting the limitations of the housewife role, enrolled in college, and woke up to the manipulative and damaging effects of the patriarchy. Endemic to the Tristan group, these birds number up to 4 million on Nightingale alone, and will nest on the land surface when no new burrow sites are available.CRIME AND PUNISHING - My Review of THE NIGHTINGALE (4 Stars) ![]() The peat soil below is honeycombed by the burrows of literally millions of breeding sea birds - especially the Great Shearwater, known as the Petrel by islanders. ![]() The central valleys contain many nesting sites for the Atlantic Yellow-Nosed Albatross, whilst the Sooty Albatross is more likely to favour higher and steeper sites on the ridges above. Wood is cut for firewood for use in cooking by islanders. The only Tristan island tree, Phylica arborea, grows in thickets in this central area and gives shelter and food to the rare land birds. Islanders more modestly refer to the three inland lakes in central Nightingale to 'Ponds'. Islanders have built paths (called 'roads') to travel inland which are visible below. The rich vegetation has rotted down over the centuries into thick layers of peat which overlies all except the steepest ground. It is highly abrasive and long sleeves are advisable, even in high summer. The tussock grass dominates the islands and grows over 2 metres tall. All the Nightingale Islands are also surrounded by numerous rocky islets or sea stacks. Beyond are, first Middle or Alex Island, and beyond Stoltenhoff Island. This view from the summit of High Peak looks down to an area of Spartina tussock grass just above the landing. See also Great Shearwater, Penguin and Albatross Pages Outgoing cargo may include sacks of penguin guano, gathered in January or February for use as potato fertiliser, eggs of penguins or shearwaters and meat and fat obtained from mature young great shearwaters traditionally hunted during the May 'Fatting Trip'. Incoming cargo includes essential fresh water (there is no good drinking water on Nightingale due to interaction of seabirds in the peat soil!), potatoes and building materials for mending camping huts. The light boats are hauled to safety and secured under low sea cliffs away from ocean swells (but during the 2001 hurricane 40% of the camping huts above the cliffs were destroyed! As of 2019, there are 11 huts on Nightingale, one of which belongs to the Conservation Dept). The steep, but smooth, rocky landing point on Nightingale is a busy scene as a longboat convoy arrives on the wilderness island. Islanders undertook hunting and gathering trips to Nightingale (for sea bird eggs and meat) when it replaced Inaccessible as the most often visited island in the late 19th Century. Today Nightingale trips are also made by powered boats, including the search and rescue boat Atlantic Dawn. Traditional wooden framed boats with canvas skins and sails (left) have been replaced with modern fibre glass boats with nylon sails (right). This view looking south, is looking across Middle Island, with the easterly tip of Stoltenhoff Island to the right. Numerous sea stacks lie off the islands.Īpproaching Nightingale by longboat from Tristan ![]() North of the main island lie Middle or Alex Island, and beyond Stoltenhoff Island (named after the German Stoltenhoff brothers who attempted to settle on Inaccessible island in the 1870s). Its highest point, High Peak, is about 370 metres (1200ft high). The main island is only 2.5 x 1.5 km and has an area of about 3.2 km2. ![]() The island group is only a small remnant of a much larger active cone. Nightingale is the oldest of the three main islands, with recorded volcanic rocks from 18 million years to 360,000 years old. Nightingale Island was first named Gebroocken (Broken) Island after its rugged profile by the Dutch Nachtglas expedition in 1656, and later named Nightingale by the British Captain Gamaliel Nightingale in 1760. ![]()
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