Michael Hentley was the Administrator for the

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Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha (), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately from Cape Town in South Africa, from Saint Helena ...

, which is situated in the South

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. He reported to

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, who was the

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, and was based in

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. As the administrator, Hentley was

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and acted in accordance with advice from Tristan da Cunha's Island Council which is composed of eight elected and three appointed members. Hentley lived on Tristan da Cunha from May 2004 with his wife Janis Crossan, Rob, 'Return to the Last Outpost', ''Telegraph Magazine'', November 11, 2002 until he left the island on 13 September 2007, the day his responsibility ended and the new Administrator's began. On 12 September 2007, a party in the Prince Philip Hall was held by Hentley to welcome his successor, David Morley who had arrived on the '' S. A. Agulhas'' that day. The next day Hentley left for

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on the very same ship. Hentley is in his retirement back in the

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