The Island of Saint Helena (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Located 1,500 miles south of the nation of Cote d’Ivoire and about 2,500 miles east of Rio de Janeiro, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, lies one of the most remote human settlements on Earth: The island of St Helena. Given its remote location, St. Helena has had a history unlike most other islands, and people who live there are unlike any others in the world. Learn more about the island of Saint Helena, its history, and life on the island, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Darcy Adams Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/EverythingEverywhere Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:04.0	Located 1500 miles south of the nation of Cotevoire and about 2,500 miles east of Rio de Janeiro, in the middle of the Atlantic
0:15.3	Ocean lies one of the most remote human settlements on Earth, the island of St Helena.
0:21.1	Given its remote location, St. Helena has a history unlike most other islands and the people who live there are unlike any others in the world.
0:28.0	Learn more about the island of St. Helena, its history, and life on the island on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The island of St Helena does not get a lot of visitors.
0:53.0	It's one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world
0:56.0	located in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean.
0:59.0	The closest bit of dry land to St Helena
1:02.0	is Ascension Island, which is in of itself an extremely remote island.
1:06.6	The island is approximately 5 miles by 10 miles. The current population on the island is about 4,500 people, and it's a territory of the United Kingdom.
1:15.6	The closest landmass is Angola, 1,200 miles away on the west coast of Africa.
1:21.0	The people on the island are known as Saints.
1:24.0	How do these people get to such a remote island?
1:26.0	And why do they live there?
1:28.0	Well, it's a long story.
1:30.0	The first person to discover St Helena
1:32.0	was Portuguese navigator, D'Anova.
1:34.9	He reportedly spotted the island on May 21st, 1502 and named it after St Helena,
1:39.9	the mother of the Emperor Constantine. Other sailors spotted the island on their trips around Africa,
1:45.0	but there were no recorded landings on the island for decades.
1:48.3	That's not to say there were no landings, however.
1:50.8	In 1589, a Dutch navigator named Jan Hoogen von Linshaten landed on the island and recorded seeing
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