Place details
Place nameSaint Helena
Other namesSaint Helena and Dependencies, St. Helena, Sint Helena, Santa Helena, Sainte-Hélène, Sankt Helena, Sant'Elena, SHN, SH, ISO654, SH00
Latitude-15.95
Longitude-5.7
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Comprises island of Saint Helena & several others in the S Atlantic; main island sighted by Portuguese on feast of St. Helen in 1502; English visited in 1588, Dutch in 17th cen.; Africans brought here as slaves by British East India Company 17th cen.; official language is English.
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