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The Island is named after the day of its recorded discovery, Ascension Day. It is located at 7.56° S, 14.25° W. It is located at 7.56° S, 14.25° W. The island is the location of Wideawake Airfield, which is a joint facility of the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force .
Attention has long been drawn to the confusion between Ascension and Trindade, Ascenção menor [Ascension Minor] being granted to a nobleman, Belchior Camacho in 1539 by King João III of Portugal [22] and British Admiralty maps showing a mythical Ascension Island at a location between Trindade and Brazil as late as 1808.
The St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Constitution Order 2009 (an Order in Council of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom) enacted a new constitution for the territory, which came into effect on 1 September 2009, and elevated Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha from being dependencies of Saint Helena to equal constituent parts.
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Map of Ascension Island. Ascension is 97 km. 2 The island lies in the South Atlantic Ocean near the equator, 1700 km off the coast of Africa. The island is about a million years old and is volcanic in origin. [1] Volcanic activity occurred as recently as 1000 years ago. Most of the island is covered with young volcanic soils, including lava ...
The Ascension Island Marine Protected Area covers the entirety of the territorial waters and exclusive economic zone of the mid-Atlantic territory of Ascension Island. Within the area, no commercial fishing or deep sea mining is allowed, with recreational fishing allowed only in the territorial waters directly adjacent to the island.
This photo taken on February 15, 2024, shows an aerial view of over Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea. - Jam Sta Rosa/AFP/Getty Images
Saint Helena, named after St Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha [1] which also includes Ascension Island and the islands of Tristan da Cunha. Saint Helena measures about 16 by 8 kilometres (10 by 5 mi ...