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Populated places in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

  • Jamestown, Saint HelenaIn 1659, colonists from the English East India Company arrived on the north-western coast of Saint Helena to establish a settlement.
  • Longwood, Saint HelenaEdmond Halley left the University of Oxford in 1676 to visit Saint Helena. He set up an observatory with a six-foot aerial telescope on that island.