![]() 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. Please see our general terms and conditions for more information about financial protection, or for more information on the ATOL Certificate go to: Portuguese explorer João da Nova is believed to be the first to discover the island (in 1501), but he did not report it. Please ask us to confirm what financial protection may apply to your booking. If you do receive an ATOL Certificate but all the parts of your trip are not listed on it, those parts will not be ATOL protected. If you do not receive an ATOL Certificate, then the booking will not be ATOL protected. This website and our general terms and conditions will provide you with information on the protection that applies in the case of each holiday and travel service offered before you make your booking. ATOL protection does not apply to all travel services listed on this website. To contact us about your booking, you can do so immediately via our help centre or contact our agents here.įlight-inclusive Packages booked on .uk are financially protected by the ATOL scheme (under Vacaciones eDreams SL’s ATOL number 11966). Registered in Commercial Register of Madrid, Volume 36897, Sheet 121 Page M-660117. ![]() Sociedad unipersonal, Calle de Manzanares, nº 4, Planta 1º, Oficina 108, 28005, Madrid, Spain, with VAT number B-61965778. Lowest price 9 out of 10 times on average for both flights and hotels. Hotels in top 25 destinations and top 20 search results. *Hotel comparison carried out using basic fare for the same room type and same travel dates. Monthly benchmark of 20,000 flights compared on average. * Flight comparison carried out using basic fare (excluding ancillaries) for the same flight number. ![]()
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