Saint Helena is a remote volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, belonging to the United Kingdom, and named after Saint Helena of Constantinople.
The island is one of the most isolated islands in the world and was discovered by the Portuguese in 1502. From 1815-21, the island was the place of imprisonment of Napoleon by the British. Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo was imprisoned there for leading a Zulu army against British rule along with more than 5,000 Boers taken prisoner during the Second Boer War.
It is one of three British Overseas Territory grouped as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and is the United Kingdom’s second-oldest overseas territory after Bermuda.
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- British Empire Study Group: Prisoners of the Boer War on St Helena and Free Masonry
- British Empire Study Group: St. Helena – the Story of Napoleon’s Exile
- Ourdadsstamps: The Stamps of St Helena
