What is Gough Island?
{{Infobox islands|name=Gough Island <br> <small>Gonçalo Álvares</small>|highest_mount=[[Edinburgh Peak]]|footnotes=|country_admin_divisions=[[St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]]|country=United Kingdom|coordinates={{coord|40|19|0|S|9|56|0|W|region:SH_type:isle_dim:50000|display=inline,title}}|archipelago=[[Tristan da Cunha]]|location=[[South Atlantic Ocean]]|elevation_m=910|map=|width_km=7|length_km=13|area_km2=91|image_alt=View of Gough Island|image_caption=View of Gough Island|image_name=[[File:Gough island top view.png|300px]]|module={{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site |child = yes |ID = 740 |Year = 1995 |Criteria = Natural: (vii), (x) }} {{Designation list | embed = yes | designation1 = Ramsar | designation1_date = 20 November 2008 | designation1_number = 1868<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gough Island|website=[[Ramsar Convention|Ramsar]] Sites Information Service|url=https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/1868|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref>}}}} [[File:Gough.png|thumb|Map of Gough island]] '''Gough Island''' ({{IPAc-en|ɡ|ɒ|f}}), historically known as '''Gonçalo Álvares''', is a rugged [[volcanic island]] in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a dependency of [[Tristan da Cunha]]. It is part of the [[British overseas territories|British overseas territory]] of [[Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]]. It is part of the [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]] of Gough and [[Inaccessible Island|Inaccessible Islands]]. It is about {{convert|400|km|mi|abbr=on}} south-east of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago (which includes [[Nightingale Island]] and [[Inaccessible Island]]), {{convert|2400|km|mi|abbr=on}}, north-east from [[South Georgia Island]], {{convert|2700|km|mi|abbr=on}} west from [[Cape Town]]. It is over {{convert|3200|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the nearest point of South America. Nobody lives on Gough Island except for the workers of a [[weather station]], which is usually six people. The [[South African National Antarctic Programme]] has maintained the island with British permission since 1956. It is one o