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|largest_settlement_type = settlement |membership_type = Part of |membership = Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |government_type = Non-partisan democracy |leader_title1 = Monarch |leader_name1 = Elizabeth II |leader_title2 = Governor |leader_name2 = Mark Andrew Capes |area_rank = |area_magnitude = 1 E8 |area_km2 = 121 |area_sq_mi = 47 |percent_water = |population_census = 4,255〔 |population_census_year = 2008 (Feb) |population_density_km2 = 35 |sovereignty_type = |established_event1 = Charter granted |established_date1 = 1657 |established_event2 = Colonised by the East India Company |established_date2 = 1659 |established_event3 = Crown colony (Company rule ends) |established_date3 = 22 April 1834〔 |established_event4 = Current constitution |established_date4 = 1 September 2009 |currency = Saint Helena pound |currency_code = SHP |time_zone = GMT |utc_offset = |time_zone_DST = |DST_note = |utc_offset_DST = |cctld = .sh |calling_code = +290 |drives_on = left |demonym = Sainta |footnote_a = Or simply "Helenian". Informally, the islanders are also referred to as "Saints". UK Postcode: STHL 1ZZ |iso3166code= SH-HL }} Saint Helena ( ) is a volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, east of Rio de Janeiro and west of the Kunene river which marks the border between Namibia and Angola in southwestern Africa. It is part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Saint Helena measures about and has a population of 4,255 (2008 census). It was named after Saint Helena of Constantinople. The island was uninhabited when discovered by the Portuguese in 1502. One of the most remote islands in the world, it was for centuries an important stopover for ships sailing to Europe from Asia and South Africa. Napoleon was imprisoned there in exile by the British, as were Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (for leading a Zulu army against British rule) and more than 5,000 Boers taken prisoner during the Second Boer War. Between 1791 and 1833, Saint Helena became the site of a series of experiments in conservation, reforestation and attempts to boost rainfall artificially.〔Richard Grove, ''Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 309-379〕 This environmental intervention was closely linked to the conceptualisation of the processes of environmental change and helped establish the roots of environmentalism.〔 Saint Helena is Britain's second-oldest remaining overseas territory (Bermuda is the oldest). == History == (詳細はウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saint Helena」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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