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What is this site for? 

Put simply, it aims to be a resource which documents St Helena, the island in the South Atlantic. We aim for it to cover everything you could possibly need to know about St Helena: past, present and future.

That’s quite a challenge, and with information pages already on Saint Helena Island Info we feel we still have some way to go.

Please note that it is our intention to address our subject in a light-hearted manner, while maintaing factual accuracy and honesty.

How to use Saint Helena Island Info 

If St Helena is new to you, perhaps because you stumbled on this site while looking for something else, start with our Where is St Helena? page, so that at least you know where we are, and then perhaps go to the Information Index page to begin exploring.

If you’re new to Saint Helena Island Info, the best place to start is our Information Index page. This will show you how to navigate to the detail you seek.

Or you could try the , or a randomly-selected one:

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This site does not use ‘cookies’.

Page Structure

Pages on Saint Helena Island Info follow a standard structure:

  • On the left there is the menu. This provides quick access to the main pages on the site. It is the same on every page.

  • Each page begins with a title and a subtitle. It may also have ‘context badges’, perhaps indicating the physical location of the place the page is discussing, or that the subject is, for example, one of our Seven Wonders, etc.

  • Next there is usually an amusing or thought-provoking quote related to the subject of the page, followed by a banner which provides an introduction to the page’s contents.

  • Below the banner are some social media icons.

    We actively encourage users to share our content on social media, and get a discussion going about what we have written. And if your discussion leads you to believe we should change our content, please contact us.

  • Then you will find an image related to the page contents and a top-level menu (‘Below: …’). There may also be indexes to ‘our other’ related pages.

  • The page content follows. Links to other pages or to selected external content are highlighted thus.

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    Images are frequently shown as thumbnails: click on the image to open it full-size in a new tab or window in your browser (example, right).

  • At the bottom you will usually find one or more reproductions{1} of articles on topics related to the page content. This is generally followed by a humourous image related to the page’s contents.

  • Then there are any footnotes and item credits. These are indicated in the text with markers: {1} for footnotes and {a} for credits. Most browsers will show the text of the footnote/credit if you hover over the marker, or you can click on the marker to be taken to the footnote/credit text itself. The ‘Go Back’ button takes you back to where you were. Note that a Credit may be to the person or organisation that supplied the image to Saint Helena Island Info, which is not necessarily the originator of the image.

  • These are followed by the Navigation section, helping you identify further pages of interest.

    • There may be one or more indexes, depending on the indexes in which the page appears - the drop-down boxes link to all the pages in the relevant index.

    • There is also a navigation option that lists all pages.

    • Two page-searches follow, one which searches by page title, subtitle and keywords, and the Google™ search which is a full-page search{2}.

    • Finally, there is our Take Me Anywhere But Here! feature.

  • Lastly on the page the social media icons appear again followed by some general and page-specific information.

  • Fixed in the top right corner of the page you will see a very small icon like this: Δ. If you click this button the screen will scroll back to the top.

  • In the menu there is a link to a translate facility if English is not your preferred language.

  • Where amounts are converted to current values this uses the Average Annual Nominal Earnings dataset from measuringworth.com.

  • Weights and measurements are normally given in SI units (Km, Kg, etc.). Some older texts use the original imperial units. In general, if you hover your mouse cursor over a unit, its equivalent should appear as a tool-tip (though this depends on your browser); illustrated thus.

The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimetre bullet.
Dave Barry

Adverts 

You will note that there are no adverts on this site.

Unlike some other St Helena sites we do not need to sell you stuff to support http://sainthelenaisland.info/, our (few) costs are sponsored by the moonbeamsforall.com Moonbeams Shop opens in a new window or tab Saint Helena Island Info About This SiteMoonbeams Shop.

If you wish to reach the people of St Helena we suggest you contact our local media:

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Got a news story? Call (+290) 22727 or email news@sams.sh. Debate the island’s news on St Helena News & Travel.

You will see the following on various Saint Helena Island Info pages. While technically this might be considered an advertisement we actually see this more as a service to anyone wanting to learn more about our extraordinary island. Saint Helena Island Info receives no income from any sales and takes no responsibility for any commercial arrangements into which you may enter.

St Helena History 

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Several pages use information from the Records and from the island’s newspapers, which we have compiled into a database of items ranging from to . You can search our events database in various ways on our Chronology page. It is our intention to maintain and keep this database updated.

Material we have used 

Information is reproduced here for educational non-commercial use only; all copyrights are acknowledged.

Information and images presented on this site are gleaned from sources too numerous to list, many on the Internet and all in the public domain. Acknowledgement is offered to:

If you think we have breached your copyright or used your copyrighted material without your permission please contact us.

Site History and Updates 

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Our normal pattern is to update http://sainthelenaisland.info/ weekly on a Friday morning, usually before 1pm GMT{4} When completed we announce these updates on our Facebook™ page and Twitter™ feed. After we update the site you may need to force your browser to refresh the page{5}!

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Saint Helena Island Info, June 2010 (Click to explore)

This site was first registered on 1st July 2009. Initially the site had 19 pages, 11 of which were Island Detail pages, and 77 images. You can actually explore the June 2010 version of Saint Helena Island Info - click on the screen-shot (right).

The current colours, layout and logo came in 2012, and by October 2012 the site was up to 35 pages (24 Island Detail pages) and 210 images. By the end of 2014 there were 87 pages (77 Island Detail pages); 28 downloads and 1,306 images, and the site has continued to grow steadily ever since. You can see what was added when.

Saint Helena Island Info currently has .

You can see which pages were updated in the most recent release.

Who is ‘we’? 

This site is edited by John Turner, who moved to St Helena with his family in 2005 and aims to stay here for the rest of his life! This site is sponsored by the moonbeamsforall.com Moonbeams Shop opens in a new window or tab Saint Helena Island Info About This SiteMoonbeams Shop, selling locally-made souvenirs and personalised gifts in Jamestown, St Helena.

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We operate this site from the moonbeamsforall.com Moonbeams Shop opens in a new window or tab Saint Helena Island Info About This SiteMoonbeams Shop in Napoleon Street, Jamestown.

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Editor, John Turner

We welcome callers, so if you want to visit in person, the map (left) should help. The editor, John Turner, is normally available 09:00-12:00h GMT, Mon-Fri.

If you have a question 

Feel free to contact us with your question, but perhaps we have already answerered it? Check our Frequently Asked Questions page for answers to many common questions we are asked about Saint Helena Island Info and about St Helena itself, including:

Beware of impostors! 

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We are aware of other sites using similar URLs to ours, some of which also include out-of-date copies of our content and one has even stolen our images! They seem to exist purely to sell you stuff; we exist purely to provide accurate information about St Helena. There is nothing we can do to prevent these imitators; we just treat it as recognition that our site is the leading independent site about St Helena and is the one to copy! NB: These copycats may not be safe to use; often such sites download viruses or other malware to your computer. As long as you make sure you only visit sainthelenaisland.info and ignore the mimics you can be assured of the best information from a safe website.

‘What the Saints did next…’ 

The history of St Helena and its people is continuing. This website can’t provide up-to-the-minute news, and there is no need for us to do so because reliable sources of St Helena news are readily available on the Internet:

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S.A.M.S. Radio 1 Saint Helena Island Info About This Site

Independent Saint Helena Island Info About This Site

Saint FM Community Radio Saint Helena Island Info About This Site

Got a news story? Call (+290) 22727 or email news@sams.sh. Debate the island’s news on St Helena News & Travel.

Technical Information 

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Usability

A minimum viewing window width of 1024 pixels is recommended for this site.

This site uses Cascading Style Sheets. You can therefore control text size and colours using your web browser. Please refer to the documentation for your web browser for further information.

Please contact us to report any usability problems, specifying as much technical information (OS, browser version, etc.) as possible.
Thank you.

Testing

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Site Index

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Error Page

Unresolved URLs are directed here: Error Page

Work In Progress

Please note that some pages on this site may be under construction and that these pages may not yet work fully as advertised. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

We welcome feedback, so please contact us with your comments on our work so far.

Images are limited to a maximum dimension of 2400 pixels (but maps are permitted to be larger).

Site Maintenance

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Read More 

More stories on our page Read articles about St Helena.

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Our tribute to the original ‘website of St Helena’

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John Ekwall, 1996

In 1990 Radio St Helena did its first Radio St Helena Day short-wave broadcast to the world. And half-way across the world this broadcast reached an enthusiastic radio listener in Sweden by the name of John Ekwall. John was fascinated to hear live radio from St Helena, such a tiny speck in the vast South Atlantic Ocean. John’s fascination with St Helena had begun a while before and he had begun corresponding with the people at Radio St Helena. In 1992 he visited for the first time, and again in 1997.

In addition to his radio listening activities John was also an ‘early adopter’ of the Internet. In 1996, with websites just beginning to spring up around the world but with the Internet still not generally available on St Helena, John decided that he would create the world’s first website about St Helena. And thus, later that year, www.sthelena.se was born.

Initially much of the site was focussed on Radio St Helena and its annual short-wave transmissions but the site quickly grew into a comprehensive guide to the island. The site soon became known as ‘The website of St Helena’.

John continued maintaining www.sthelena.se until around 2014 when other pressures got the better of him. He handed it over at the beginning of 2017. The site still exists but at the time of writing the content has been translated into Swedish and the English version has disappeared. We are told the English version should be back online later this year. Although much of the information is now out-of-date, the site remains of interest and in many respects is a fascinating snapshot of St Helena from the not-too distant past.

This is the site as it was in late 1996:

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The site at the time of writing (in Swedish):

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Footnotes:

{1} Reproduced for educational non-commercial use only; all copyrights are acknowledged.

{2} Our Subject Index and Site Index pages may also be helpful.

{3} NB: This is not an advertisement.

{4} It can take 30-60 minutes to upload the updates because of St Helena’s slow Internet connection. Although we try to upload in a continuity-friendly manner, during this time you may experience issues accessing the site, for which we apologise.

{5} PAGE-REFRESH EXPLAINED: to save Internet time most web-browsers maintain a ‘cache’ - a store of recently-viewed pages, images, etc. If you go back to a page you recently visited your browser will use a complicated algorithm to decide whether to use it’s stored page files, or get new ones from our Internet source. Obviously, if your browser decides to use its stored data, you will not see the updates we have made! On most systems you can force your browser to refresh its store from our servers by holding down the ‘Ctrl’ key and pressing the key ‘F5’. Please see your browser’s instructions for more.



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