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Extractions: The Island of St. Helena lies in an isolated position in the South Atlantic, about 15.55° S and 5.45° W. The nearest mainland, the west coast of Africa, is over 1,000 miles away, and the island is 1,700 miles (2,276km) from Cape Town and 4,500 miles (7,240km) from Britain. The sister island of Ascension, one of St. Helenas two dependencies, lies 703 miles (1,131km) to the north-west, and the other, Tristan da Cunha, some 1,500 miles (2,414km) to the south-west. GEOGRAPHY St. Helena covers 47V square miles, is 10V miles long by 6/2 miles wide and rises steeply out of the sea. The highest point, Dianas Peak, is 2,700ft above sea level. Jamestown, the capital, is at sea level. St. Helena is tropical but the climate is by no means as extreme as that suggests. It is equable and warm, but there is a noticeable difference between the drier, low-lying areas such as Jamestown and the cooler, damper cloudy uplands. Vegetation flourishes in the lush central areas. One Victorian writer likened the island to an emerald, set in a ring of bronze, and an aerial view would confirm his poetic fancy. POPULATION, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
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Extractions: SAINT HELENA @ Mail Order America Click here for advertising information! home A detailed history of Tristan da Cunha - A detailed history of Tristan da Cunha, discovered in 1506, garissoned in 1816 and currently the most remote inhabited island in the world. The site covers the garissoning of the island in some detail, along with the "West Riding" disaster and visit of the first HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. The difficulties of living in such a remote location are graphically described. A WorldRover Guide - Saint Helena maps, facts, history, travel guides and embassy information. Ascension - Ascension Island history and its birds and Boatswain Bird Island. Ascension Island - Ascension and how to visit. Ascension Island - Smith Family Visit 1997. Getting there. First impressions. Wildlife. Photos. Ascension Island Post Office - St. Helena Postage Stamps - The following Philatelic items are on sale at Ascension Island Post Office. Ascension Island Services - Two Boats School - The only school on Ascension Island, is well equipped and staffed, offers pupils a very advantageous pupil/teacher ratio. The school role is usually around 130-140. Atlantic islands - Albert Beintema's brief descriptions of the South Atlantic Islands he visited as part of his Atlantic Odyssey: he has also written about Tristan in "Het Waterhoentje van Tristan da Cunha"
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Extractions: (Redirected from St. Helena Saint Helena is an island in the Atlantic Ocean 2,800 km off the west coast of Africa belonging to the United Kingdom . It is also the name of this island together with Ascension , Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, Nightingale Island, and Tristan da Cunha Island. Saint Helena coat of arms In Detail Full size National motto Official language English Political status ... Overseas territory of the UK Capital Jamestown Governor and ... 18/km² Currency Saint Helenian pound (SHP) Time zone UTC National anthem God Save the Queen ... My St. Helena Island (unofficial) Internet TLD .sh Calling Code The island served as a strategic island for ships on their way to the Indian Ocean before the Suez Canal was built. St. Helena has a small population that remains loyal to Britain. However, the island's dimunitive size and geopolitical insignificance has led many Islanders to accuse the British government of ignoring the island. The island's economy was a one crop economy for many years, but is now very weak, and is almost entirely sustained solely on aid from London.
Extractions: Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging by J.H. Schoeman Legend has it that the last words written by a pale, thin, sickly-looking scholar in the geography class at the military school in Brienne were, 'St. Helena is a tiny island'. The student was none other than Napoleon, the man destined to make St. Helena one of the world's most famous islands. In fact it can be called 'the island of exiles'. Situated in the cold Atlantic, 1 800 miles north-west of Cape Town, it is marked on the map as a mere speck with its name underlined in red. Only eleven miles long and, at its widest, six miles across, the island has a total surface area of 44 square miles and a population of something over three thousand. It was discovered in 1502 by the Portuguese navigator, Juan de Nova Castella, on the birthday of Constantine's mother, St. Helena, after whom he named it. The navigators, constantly on the lookout for places where fresh water, vegetables and meat could be obtained, recognised the possibilities of the island, and left a number of donkeys, goats and pigs there. The first recorded person to live on the island was the unfortunate Fernandez Lopez who was left to fend for himself as well as he could eleven years after its discovery. This nobleman, having incurred disgrace for deserting his post, was condemned and punished by having his nose, ears, right hand and the little finger of his left hand cut off! He preferred this punishment to returning to his fatherland to face the ignominy that awaited him there. However, from the records it appears that he was not left entirely to the mercy of the lonely island, but was 'duly supplied with negro slaves, pigs, goats, poultry, partridges, guinea-fowls, pheasants, peacocks, vegetables, roots, fig, orange and peach trees'. If this statement is true, one wonders how, under the navigational conditions of the time, such a variety of animals was available. Four years later he was allowed to return to Portugal.
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Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition St. Helena is a city located in Napa County, California Napa County is a county located northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. As of 2000 the population is 124,279. The county seat is Napa. Napa County is world-famous for its wine industry. Napa County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. Parts of the county's territory were given to Lake County in 1861. Click the link for more information. . As of the This page is about the year 2000 AD. For information about the UK comic of that name, see 2000 A.D. Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s - Years: 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 - News by month: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Click the link for more information. census, the city had a total population of 5,950. The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Encyclopedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. These sources are cited within the thousands of articles which link to this page.
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Extractions: Ascension Island location map ). It is as remote as St. Helena, being almost exactly in the middle of the South Atlantic, but is a smaller island (98 sq. km [34 sq. mi.]; topographic map Ascension is volcanic in origin, but has superb white sand beaches (the sand is shell and coral sand). It is a rugged, dry, barren, and inhospitable island. Most of the surface of Ascension is covered by basalt lava flows and cinder cones ( geology of Ascension [See also the potted history from Packer's Ascension Island Handbook Ascension was first discovered in 1501 by Juan da Nova Castella, but the discovery apparently went unrecorded, and the island was re-discovered on Ascension Day 1503 by Alfonso d'Albuquerque. Subsequently Ascension was little visited; it was too dry and barren to be of any use to the East Indies fleets. Ascension became strategically significant with the exile of Napoleon to St. Helena; the British were concerned that it could be used in any attempt to rescue Napoleon. Thus a small British naval garrison was established on the island in October 1815. By Napoleon's death in 1821 Ascension had become a victualling station and sanitarium for ships engaged in suppression of the slave trade from the West African coast. In 1823 the garrison was taken over by the Royal Marines and the island remained a naval possession ( HMS Ascension , "a Sloop of War of the smaller class") until 1922 when Ascension became a dependency of St. Helena.
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Extractions: photo by Carol Annable COLLECTIONS BY GEOGRAPHY The data component of the division consists of collectors' field notes, hand-written or printed catalog ledgers, the electronic database, geographic and taxonomic card indexes, and specimen tags and labels. Besides the basic collection information, such as where, when and by whom a specimen was collected, other ancillary data on habitat, behavior, color in life, food, reproduction, other associated specimens, etc. greatly increase the value of the specimens for future research. COUNTRY OF RECORDS AND NUMBER NO LOCALITY DATA - 4294 AFGHANISTAN - 51 AFRICA - 117 ALDABRA ISLANDS - 276 ALGERIA - 97 ANDAMAN ISLANDS - 25 ANGOLA - 109 ANGUILLA - 103 ANTIGUA - 318 ARGENTINA - 796 ARGENTINA - CHILE - 16 ASCENSION ISLAND - 27 ASIA - 4 ASIA MINOR - 2 ATLANTIC OCEAN - 3 AUSTRALIA - 1350 AUSTRIA - 90 AZORES - 60 BAHAMAS - 1078 BAHRAIN - 3 BANGLADESH - 17 BARBADOS - 84 BARBUDA - 94 BELGIUM - 1 BELIZE - 779 BENIN - 163 BERMUDA - 95 BHUTAN - 2 BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO - 186 BOLIVIA - 2755 BORNEO - 65 BORNEO - INDONESIA - 153 BORNEO - MALAYSIA - 435 BOTSWANA - 878 BRAZIL - 14626 BRAZIL - COLOMBIA - 2 BRAZIL - VENEZUELA - 25 BULGARIA - 62 BURMA - 604 BURUNDI - 4 CAICOS ISLANDS - 96 CAMBODIA - 22 CAMEROON - 86 CANADA - 97 CANADA - UNITED STATES - 9 CANARY ISLANDS - 11 CAPE VERDE ISLANDS - 6 CAYMAN ISLANDS - 482 CHAD - 14 CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO - 156 CHILE - 272 CHINA - 4684 CHINA - MONGOLIA- 3 COLOMBIA - 5133 COMORO ISLANDS - 60 CONGO - 145 COSTA RICA - 3812 CUBA - 4922
