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St Helena Island Moreton Bay: An Historical Account, ISBN 978-0-9807003-4-3, 229 pages including index, Lauren Penny. The St Helena Story: An Illustrated History of Colonial Queensland's Island Prison, ISBN 978-1-921555-44-2, 300 pages, full colour, references, index. by Jarvis Finger, Fernfawn/Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, 2010.
Topographic map of Saint Helena by Barry Weaver and Jean-Pierre Langer; Saint Helena Island, a photograph by NASA Earth Observatory; Author: Oona Räisänen : Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Topographic map of Saint Helena-fr.svg; Topographic map of Saint Helena-mk.svg; Topographic map of Saint Helena-de.svg
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 ...
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 ...
Although Brisbane is dominated by low-lying flood plains throughout Moreton Bay, a number of the city's suburbs are situated on large hills. The western edge of the Brisbane area sits atop the Herbert Taylor Range, including suburbs around and including Mount Coot-tha, Enoggera, Moggill and Chapel Hill. Mount Coot-tha in particular is 300 ...
Prosperous Bay Plain (the site of Saint Helena Airport) is the only known habitat for about 55 of these endemic species. The Saint Helena giant earwig is almost certainly extinct, with the most recent chitinous remains having been found in the 1990s. However, its presence is firmly cemented within Saint Helena folklore, and hopes linger on. [6 ...
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 .
Saint Helena Island (South Carolina) St Helena Island, Queensland, Australia This page was last edited on 5 February 2020, at 01:41 (UTC). Text is available under the ...