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A View of the Town and Island of St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to the English East India Company (engraving c. 1790) In 1657, the English East India Company was granted a charter to govern Saint Helena by Oliver Cromwell, [7] and the following year the Company decided to fortify the island and colonise it with planters.
João da Nova, a Galician navigator serving the Portuguese Empire, was the first person to sight Saint Helena.. According to long-established tradition, the island was sighted on 21 May 1502 by the four ships of the 3rd Portuguese Armada, commanded by João da Nova, a Galician navigator in the service of Portugal, during his return voyage to Lisbon, who named it Santa Helena after Saint Helena ...
The currency commissioners, part of the government of Saint Helena, issue the island's banknotes and coins. The Bank of St. Helena is the island's only bank and the island does not have a central bank. The bank sets its own deposit and lending rates. As of April 2023 the maximum savings rate is 5.5% and the normal personal lending rate is 7%.
Tristan da Cunha (/ ˌ t r ɪ s t ən d ə ˈ k uː n (j) ə /), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.It is one of three constituent parts of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, with its own constitution.
Sea Island Parkway will be closed from 8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. The parade will feature floats and marching bands and more than 60 organizations. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, artists were scheduled to speak ...
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 ...
Upon learning of his deportation to the island of Saint Helena on July 31, Napoleon was transferred on August 7, 1815, to the Northumberland, which took him on a journey lasting two months and one week. [note 2] [3] Saint Helena is a volcanic island situated 1,900 km west of the African continent in the South Atlantic Ocean.
St Helena island. Saint Helena is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, about midway between South America and Africa.St Helena has a land area of 122 square kilometres and is part of the territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which includes Ascension Island and the island group of Tristan da Cunha.