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The Museum of Saint Helena is a museum on the island of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the south Atlantic Ocean. It has an extensive collection covering the maritime, military and social history of the island over two floors. It also has a small gift and book shop and an adjoining gallery for temporary exhibits.
Saint Helena Bay (Afrikaans: St. Helenabaai) is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.. Nicknamed by locals as Agterbaai, [2] [3] the town is located on the shore of the bay, from which it derives its name [4] and is approximately 150 km north of Cape Town, South Africa.
Designed by the local engineer J. W. Hoar, the Saint Helena Railway Company built a two-car inclined plane, 924 feet (281.6 m)-long, in 1829 to carry cargo between Jamestown and the fort. The cars rode on a pair of iron-plated fir rails, laid on wooden sleepers anchored into the rock of the valley wall, that were separated by a staircase of 700 ...
Port Owen is a man-made marina in Velddrif, South Africa. Velddrif, which has incorporated the village of Laaiplek has the lowest crime statistics in South Africa according to the local police station. It comprises 100 hectares and has 3.5 km of waterways which were produced over 15 years of dredging to remove roughly a million tons of dredge.
The Anglican Parish of St. James is one of the three parishes of the Diocese of St Helena on the island. St James' Church is the primary church in the parish and is the oldest Anglican Church in the southern hemisphere; the present building was put up in 1772. There are 3 daughter churches: St John's, in Upper Jamestown, St Mary's, the Briars ...
Getting to the remote South Atlantic island where Napoleon died 200 years ago got even harder during the coronavirus pandemic. The Saint Helena Napoleonic Heritage group, which is dedicated to ...
The refrigerated coolers at Chaplin’s Grocery located along Storyteller Road offers cold beverages as photographed on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 on St. Helena Island.
Most roads are single-lane, and uphill traffic has a right of way. A general speed limit of 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) applies to the entire island. On Saint Helena there is a public bus network that in January 2015 served five routes, [2] but was expanded in September 2015, [3] March 2016 [4] and October 2017. [5]