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Lydia Patrick & Steven Smith

Kelly gave up life in the UK for the world's most remote island

Meet the woman who lives on the world’s most remote island - 1,500 miles off the coast of South Africa - where there's just one shop, pub and school and 138 inhabitants. Kelly Green, 32, moved from the UK to Tristan da Cunha, one of a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa, in July 2013.

The whole island descends from just seven families and has a population of 138 inhabitants. It is only accessible by boat from Cape Town and the journey can take anywhere from a week to 15 days - depending on the weather.

After going through a tough break-up, Kelly travelled to the island to visit her parents in 2010, as her dad was a diplomat posted there. While there, she met her future husband, Shane, 33, a carpenter, who helped her carry her luggage off the raft and "fell in love" with the island.

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