Built in mid 19th Century as the Naval Church. It's part of Diocese of Cape Town along with its counterpart in St. Fort Thornton, Georgetown (Across the port from Fort Hayes).M 5PM-7PM, Sa 10AM-noon, or by special arrangement if possible (call 2326(W) or 2455(H)). Fort Hayes, Georgetown (There are signs pointing to it near the port).For more information, see the Ascension Conservation website. There are a number of bush walks possible in the park, which also features a 300-metre long tunnel used to pump water through the mountain in the 1830s. The park absorbs a large chunk of the southeast, and features a wide variety of native wildlife and plants, including land crabs, Fairy terns and red necked francolins. Green Mountain National Park was opened in 2005, making it the island's first national park. This would enable exploration into new reserves of oil, gas and minerals, though none are thought to exist.Įdit Sights and Activities Green Mountain National Park In 2008 British diplomats requested sovereignty, at the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (UN CLCS), over 200,000 square kilometres of submarine territory around the island. In 1982, Ascension Island was used as a staging post for the British Task Force during the Falklands War. The island was managed by the head of the Eastern Telegraph Company on the island until 1964 when the British Government appointed an Administrator to represent the Governor of Saint Helena on Ascension. In 1922, Ascension was made a dependency of Saint Helena. A garrison of Royal Marines was based at Ascension from 1923. The Royal Navy used the island as a victualling station for ships, particularly those of the West Africa Squadron working against the slave trade. The location of the island made it a useful stopping point for ships and communications. It is possible that the island was sometimes used as an open prison for criminal mariners, although there is only one documented case of such an exile, a Dutch ship's officer, Leendert Hasenbosch, who was set ashore at Clarence Bay as a punishment for sodomy in May 1725.Īscension Island was first inhabited in 1815, when the British garrisoned it as a precaution after imprisoning Napoleon I on Saint Helena to the southeast. When in 1503 Afonso de Albuquerque, a Portuguese navigator sighted the island on Ascension Day in the church calendar, he named it for that day. The Portuguese explorer João da Nova is believed to be the first to discover the island (in 1501), but he did not report it.
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