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Green sea turtles make a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) journey every 3–4 years from Brazil to Ascension Island to breed. They have been a protected species on the island since the mid-20th century, and lay their eggs on the pristine and quiet beaches of the island. The turtles which survive to adulthood will return to breed at the same beaches.
The Saint Helena hoopoe (Upupa antaios) became extinct soon after the island was discovered in 1502. This is a list of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE ) [ a ] and continues ...
Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56′ south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is about 960 miles (1,540 km) from the coast of Africa and 1,400 miles (2,300 km) from the coast of South America .
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Johngarthia lagostoma is a species of terrestrial crab that lives on Ascension Island and three other islands in the South Atlantic.It grows to a carapace width of 110 mm (4.3 in) on Ascension Island, where it is the largest native land animal. [2]
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.
The new shelter would be 15,000 square ft, she added — a significantly larger building than Petersburg’s current shelter — and would be a “state of the art facility” that will include 45 ...
People first inhabited the island between 5,735 and 5,600 years ago, pushing their established time of arrival back between 290 and 850 years, according to a study published on March 12 in the ...