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St Helena holidays

September 2020

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    Priti Patel looked at idea of sending asylum seekers to South Atlantic

    Home secretary asked officials to see if applicants could be processed on isolated St Helena

August 2019

  • St Helena for the Observer Magazine. A view of the tropical and volcanic landscape of Saint Helena

    Voyage of discovery to St Helena

    Big fish, cloud forests and spectacular food make the wildly remote South Atlantic island worth the journey

October 2017

  • RMS St Helena moored off Jamestown, capital of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic

    On the radar
    St Helena’s airport finally ready for touchdown

    Flights to one of the most isolated islands in the world start this week, heralding a rise in tourists for the British overseas territory – whether it’s ready for them or not

June 2016

  • Construction of St Helena airport.

    St Helena airport costing £285m of UK money is delayed over safety concerns

    British government had approved use of public money for development on remote overseas territory in South Atlantic in 2010

January 2016

  • RMS St Helena in James Bay.

    St Helena gets ready for tourism take-off

    A long-awaited airport in Napoleon’s place of exile could herald an economic boost for the remote South Atlantic island

October 2015

  • Headed for St Helena: Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon by Sir William Quiller Orchardson.

    A look back
    How the Observer reported Napoleon's exile to St Helena 200 years ago

    When Napoleon Bonaparte was banished in 1815, the Observer published a guide to the remote island – and the luxurious fixtures and fittings ordered for the exiled ruler

September 2015

  • Jamestown, the capital of St Helena, viewed from James Bay.

    Remote St Helena island welcomes first flight

    A new era arrives for the south Atlantic island of St Helena, one of the remotest places in the world, as it waves goodbye to the mail ship and receives its first flight

December 2013

  • St Helena couple

    Empire by Jon Tonks – review

    Photographer Jon Tonks investigates four far-flung outposts where the British empire lives on – at least in spirit, writes Sean O'Hagan

March 2013

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    Working lives
    Working lives: my master plan for housing on the island of St Helena

    Four months into his new role as head of housing, Andy Crowe looks at the challenges of the job

August 2012

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    In praise of … St Helena's airport

    Editorial: It will change life on, and the unique environment of, one of the world's remotest islands

April 2012

  • Jamestown, on the north leeward shore of Saint Helena

    Notes & Theories
    Star trekking: a quest for darkness

    Astronomer Steve Owens is heading to Saint Helena in the south Atlantic to see if the remote island is dark enough to qualify for 'international dark sky place' status

June 2011

  • A 180-year-old pet tortoise St Helena

    Airport plan 'threatens to destroy wildlife' on the remote Atlantic island of St Helena

    A new airport funded by British taxpayers has divided islanders and alarmed conservationists and wildlife experts

May 2009

  • Angry islanders accuse UK of stalling over £200m airport

    St Helena's 4,000 inhabitants fear their best chance to improve island is now gone

December 2008

  • St Helena (in the South Atlantic)

    St Helena smoulders as airport plan is frozen

    Islanders 'gutted' by decision to halt £100m scheme to fly in tourists and bring economic self-sufficiency

June 2008

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    A voyage to world's end

    Jenny Diski sails to the island of St Helena on the last working Royal Mail Ship and finds a forgotten outpost of the British empire

September 2003

  • Top 20s
    20 paradise islands

    Sipping cocktails by the seashore, diving on a perfect reef or basking in midnight sun above the Arctic Circle - whatever your dream, somewhere out there is the right island for you. Jill Crawshaw reveals the world's most fabulous castaway experiences.

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