“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.”
Yoda in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

Most people cannot grasp how small St Helena actually is.

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Below: 121Km² • By comparison

121Km² ^∧

We can explain that St Helena is 16 by 8 kilometres, or 121 km², but can you visualise that? Most people can’t so the image below will help.

To see just how small St Helena is, right-click on the image below and use ‘save link as’ [NB: NOT ‘save image as’] to download it to your system (8.9Mb). Now load the image into your preferred image-viewer and, where indicated zoom in…and in…and in…

By comparison ^∧

The table below compares St Helena’s size to other ‘small’ places:

Footnotes:

{1} The smallest State of America.

{2} Where Napoleon Bonaparte was first exiled, in May 1814. He escaped, caused more trouble, lost the Battle of Waterloo and ended up on St Helena.

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