St Helena

St Helena is located at 15°56′S and 5°45′W. Draw a line on a map from Land’s End directly south and, once you’ve skipped over the Iberian Peninsula and West Africa, you’ll (eventually) scribble a mark through St Helena, one of the most remote islands on the globe.

Its nearest neighbour is Ascension Island, 1,298km away. St Helena, until recently, was not an easy place to reach. But now with regular airlinks, and a network of mapped ‘Post Box Walks’, there is the opportunity to uncover the island’s endemic wildlife, walk its unique tropical ecosystem and learn about the remarkable history of this strategically essential dot in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean.