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Historically, Saint Helena Bay is the location where Vasco da Gama, first set foot in South Africa.The date of this event was recorded as 7 November, 1497. [5] [6] The bay was named Bahia de Santa Helena (Portuguese for its current name) after Saint Helena a devout, influential Christian and mother of Constantine I. [5]
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 ...
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.
It refueled in Moçâmedes (Angola) when going to St Helena and in Windhoek when going to Cape Town. [83] [84] Technical problems with RMS St Helena meant that the island was isolated for at least two months, so the flight was needed. [85] On 9 June 2017 Airlink won the bid to operate the first scheduled commercial flights to St Helena Airport ...
The written history of the Cape Colony in what is now South Africa began when Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias became the first modern European to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. [1] In 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed along the whole coast of South Africa on his way to India, landed at St Helena Bay for 8 days, and made a detailed ...
The following is a partial list of bays of South Africa. ... Algoa Bay: Eastern Cape: Port Elizabeth ... Saint Lucia Bay: KwaZulu-Natal: St Lucia
Stompneus Bay (Afrikaans: Stompneusbaai) is a village east of Shell Bay Point, 7 km north-west of St Helena Bay and 20 km north of Vredenburg. Named after a type of fish, Chrysophrys globiceps . The form Stompneusbaai is preferred for official purposes.
The three island groups shared this constitutional relationship until 1 September 2009, when the dependencies were raised to equal status with St. Helena and the territories changed its name from "Saint Helena and Dependencies" to "Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha".