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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 ...
An enlargeable map of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Saint Helena: . Saint Helena, named after St Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Enlargeable, detailed map of Saint Helena. St. Helena exists because of the St. Helena hotspot which began to produce basaltic lava about 145 million years ago when it was near the constructive plate margin of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The movement of the African Plate away from the hotspot has left the chain of the St. Helena seamounts, which ...
Topographic map of Saint Helena-mk.svg Topographic map of Saint Helena-de.svg This SVG file contains embedded text that can be translated into your language, using any capable SVG editor, text editor or the SVG Translate tool .
The St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Constitution Order 2009 (an Order in Council of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom) enacted a new constitution for the territory, which came into effect on 1 September 2009, and elevated Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha from being dependencies of Saint Helena to equal constituent parts.
Map of St Helena showing the districts and main features: Date: 11 April 2016: Source: Saint Helena regions map.svg; District map of Saint Helena.png; Author: Hogweard:
Map showing Longwood's location The district contains Prosperous Bay Plain , which is where Saint Helena Airport and the Millennium Forest is located. There is a weather recording station in the Longwood district.
Modified Mysid's topographic map (Topographic map of Saint Helena-en.svg) in Inkscape. Based on several sources: CGIAR-CSI SRTM 90m DEM Digital Elevation database; SRTM30_PLUS bathymetry by Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Topographic map of Saint Helena by Barry Weaver and Jean-Pierre Langer; Saint Helena Island, a photograph by NASA Earth ...