31 Facts About St Helena

Saint St Helena is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean.

St Helena is the United Kingdom's second-oldest overseas territory after Bermuda.

Saint St Helena is known for being the site of Napoleon's second exile, following his final defeat in 1815.

St Helena'spilots entered the island onto their charts and it has been suggested that this event was likely decisive in leading to the utilisation of the island as a regular stopover for rest and replenishment for ships en route from India to Europe, from that date until well into the seventeenth century.

Edmond Halley visited Saint St Helena on leaving the University of Oxford in 1676, and set up an astronomical observatory with a 7.

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Between 1791 and 1833, Saint St Helena became the site of a series of experiments in conservation, reforestation, and attempts to boost rainfall artificially.

Climate of Saint St Helena is tropical, marine and mild, tempered by the Benguela Current and trade winds that blow almost continuously.

Saint St Helena is divided into eight districts, with the majority housing a community centre.

In 1840, Saint St Helena became a provisioning station for the British West Africa Squadron, preventing the transportation of slaves to Brazil, and many thousands of slaves were freed on the island.

Executive authority in Saint St Helena is vested in King Charles III and is exercised on his behalf by the Governor of Saint St Helena.

Saint St Helena has one police station, Coleman House, named after PC Leonard John Coleman who died in the line of duty on 2 December 1982.

Saint St Helena has long been known for its high proportion of endemic birds and vascular plants.

Saint St Helena's biodiversity includes marine vertebrates, invertebrates, fungi, non-vascular plants, seaweeds and other biological groups.

Saint St Helena's economy is developing, but is almost entirely sustained by aid from the British government.

The document represents a 10-year plan to kick-start the economy after Saint St Helena established air access and fibre connectivity and moved away from relying purely on tourism for growth, announcing a desire to "increase exports, and decrease imports".

Some of Saint St Helena's exported tuna has been served in restaurants in Cape Town.

Saint St Helena has its own currency since 1976, the Saint St Helena pound, which is at parity with the pound sterling and is the currency of Ascension Island.

The government of Saint St Helena produces its own coinage, banknotes since 1976 and circulation coins since 1984.

Bank of Saint St Helena was established on Saint St Helena and Ascension Island in 2004.

St Helena Tourism updated its tourism marketing strategy in 2018.

An item posted on 4 March 2021 on the UK Government website stated that "all arrivals to St Helena are required to have had a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours before travelling" and with a few exceptions, non-Saints were not allowed to visit.

The first commercial flight ever to land at Saint St Helena was a charter flight carried out by Airlink of South Africa on Wednesday, 3 May 2017 from Cape Town via Mocamedes, Angola, using the Avro RJ85 ZS-SSH .

The flight picked up passengers of RMS St Helena stranded on the island when St Helena suffered propeller damage.

The release suggested that St Helena might get broadband service "as early as August 2021" if all went well with the installation project.

Saint St Helena Government is the official mouthpiece of the island's governing body.

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Saint St Helena Tourism is a website aimed at the tourist trade with advice on accommodation, transport, food and drink, events and the like.

Saint St Helena has the international calling code +290, which Tristan da Cunha has shared since 2006.

In practice several sites dedicated to aspects of life on Saint St Helena are run from elsewhere in the world, so they use other TLDs.

In 2017, St Helena Government developed its Digital Strategy, drafted by the Assistant Chief Secretary at the time, Paul McGinnety.

In February 2018, the government of St Helena launched the project to attract operators of satellite ground stations to the island who would lease capacity on the planned submarine cable for backhauling and so contribute to the operational costs of the latter.

Saint St Helena is a member of the International Island Games Association.