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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 .
Ascension Island has a separate country code, +247 and also has five-digit numbers on the island, having changed in 2015. [17] Ascension Island also held an extensive broadcast facility for international shortwave transmissions to Africa and South America.
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.
The island is around 1,950 km (1,210 mi) west of the coast of southwestern South Africa, and 4,000 km (2,500 mi) east of the major seaport city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in South America. Saint Helena measures about 16 by 8 km (10 by 5 mi) and had a population of 4,439 in the 2021 census. [ 2 ]
British Virgin Islands: 5 districts Cayman Islands: 7 districts Falkland Islands Gibraltar Montserrat: 3 parishes Pitcairn Islands Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha: 3 parts of the territory: Saint Helena Ascension Island Tristan da Cunha. Saint Helena has 8 districts South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Turks and Caicos Islands
The most common demarcation in atlases and other sources follows the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [2]
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison didn’t buy 98% of this 141-square-mile island as a personal playground; instead, he’s focused on developing the island and boosting infrastructure to help ...
One of the most remote islands in the world, Gough Island is in the South Atlantic Ocean. While the central part of the island is a plateau, the western part has a highland with the peaks and cliffs rising over 350 metres. Gough Island is roughly rectangular with a length of 13 km (8.1 mi) and a width of 5 km (3.1 mi).