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Below: 4th September 2024 12th July 2024 10th June 2024 18th April 2024 27th February 2024 29th January 2024 19th December 2023 27th November 1st November 2023 5th October 2023 28th August 2023 29th July 2023 21st May 2023 25th April 2023 14th March 2023 22nd January 2023

4th September 2024

Why are there lots of feral chickens at Casons? The answer’s on our page Could you live here?.

We have yet another version of the story about The First Battle For St Helena?, although it does not alter our conclusions about the accuracy of the ‘commonly known history’ of St Helena.

We also have the story of an escapee who actually came back. Read about John Brown on our page Escape!.

Following an enquiry we realised that we hadn’t addressed Getting Around on our page Could you live here?; we now have.

We have details of this year’s Carnival.

Saint Helena Island Info is listed on sthelenaonline.org{2}

Read about the Flax Mill Lovers.

We no longer try to show the weekly flight schedules on our page Fly here because they vary too much. Instead we have general information and links to where the up-to-date information can be found.

Each page’s head menu now contains an option ‘Explore this site’ which directs you to the navigation area, to select the page you want to see next.

12th July 2024

The UK Daily Express has again given us a contribution for our Do they mean us? page. Are they trying for some kind of record?

The song St Helena’s Batsh!t Crazy gets a mention on our page A Brief History (continued).

10th June 2024

For Pride Month 2024 we have introduced a new page: LGBTQ+.

Our page Government on St Helena was a bit too large, so we moved the British Overseas Territory details to a new page British Overseas Territory.

Work has started on the St Helena Cultural Centre.

We have Pilling Primary School’s 1st place winning song in the 2024 Culture Month Competition: Proud of St Helena.

18th April 2024

We (probably) have snakes! But only harmless ones… We’ve added them to our Problem Animals page, even though it seems that, with a diet of ants and termites, they might be more of an advantage than a problem.

We have the 2024 Wirebird Census results, showing an increase in adult birds. See our page The Wirebird.

The UK Daily Express has generously given us another contribution for our Do they mean us? page.

We’ve added a set of interesting 1960s postcards to our page Postcards of St Helena.

If you connect to the Internet on St Helena via Sure you should read our Internet Speeds Warning.

27th February 2024

On 29th January, Sam Collins broke the record for the Jacob’s Ladder Challenge with a time of 5 minutes 4.19 seconds, as reported on our page Jacob’s Ladder.

Refurbishment has begun on Toby’s Cottage. There are images of the work on our page Toby.

We get spectacular sunsets on St Helena, as documented on our NEW PAGE Sunsets.

Our Accessability Statement is published on our pages Important Information and About This Site.

29th January 2024

Arguably the most significant change is the addition of HRH Edward, Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to our page Famous Visitors.

As usual in January, we have some updates (new photographs, etc.) to our seasonal page Christmas.

The 2023 Festival of Walking has also generated updates to our Walking St Helena page.

We have information on the new sea freight service for St Helena.

The Consulate Hotel held a Jazz night in January. We have a recording on our page Sounds of St Helena.

19th December 2023

We’ve attempted to answer the question ‘Does UK Legislation apply to St Helena?’ on our page Government on St Helena. Good luck understanding the answer!

The (UK) Daily Express has, once again, kindly made a contribution to our Do they mean us? page. Nice of them!

Also deserving (and therefore getting) a mention on the same page is the new Napoleon film.

Much better, however, is the new article on our Read articles about St Helena page.

Is Diana’s Peak a ‘Mountain’? We don’t know! What do you think?

27th November

We now know where the people recently re-buried in Ruperts originated, before being captured as slaves. See our page The Slave Graves.

Enjoy our NEW PAGE Fascinating Facts about St Helena!

We tried a different Artificial Intelligence app, this time with rather less success. See our page Artificial Intelligence.

We have taken advantage of the now-available un-capped Internet access to add additional What3Words locations across the site.

1st November 2023

Our National Conservation Areas now have their own page: see National Conservation Areas. Also included is information about our Marine Protected Area.

Beware of the Diddlidite! See our page Edible Wild Plants.

We’ve removed all the (known!) Dead Links and replaced them with alternatives.

There are other updates too numerous to list across many pages, including additional ‘Read More’ articles, factual updates, additional images and new data. Enjoy discovering them☺.

5th October 2023

Read about Captain Robert Wright, who fought (and won) a duel with Lieutenant Stephen Young at Chubb’s Spring in 1809 and was subsequently acquitted of murder.

We’ve updated our page Communications to reflect the improvements in Internet access on St Helena with effect from 1st October.

Batchelors Hall is a large, prominent building in Main Street, Jamestown. If you’ve never heard of it see our page Historic Buildings, Jamestown.

Our page Sounds of St Helena now contains links whereby you can ‘Listen Live’ to our island radio stations.

Abercrombie & Kent are famous for high-end travel and next year one of their trips includes St Helena. See the article on our page Visitor Information.

The 2024 The Governor’s Cup race has been announced, starting on 26th December 2024.

We’ve greatly improved the Image Search - it now returns more and more relevant results. Good if you know you saw an image on Saint Helena Island Info and can’t remember where. Images returned must have a height of at least 500 px.

28th August 2023

We’ve added a NEW PAGE describing what we do about Recycling.

There’s a NEW PAGE Jamestown (district), and another NEW PAGE Districts of St Helena which talks about the common issues in the eight Districts of St Helena, including their history and development (there were originally only five…).

UK newspaper The Sun has kindly contributed another of its exaggerated articles about St Helena to our page Do they mean us?.

Not all our road signs are correctly spelt (Flag Staff View for example, and Sister’s Walk) but ‘Seales’ Corner’, strange though it looks, is. See our page Place Names.

Doctors coming here to work should read our list of confusing local medical phrases, on our page Speak Saint.

Maybe check out The Real Seven Wonders of St Helena?

If you don’t get enough spam emails yourself you may be amused to read some of ours, on our page Contact Us.

We’ve made further changes to support very narrow screens. In testing we actually got a readable result on a 300px-wide screen, but we still recommend a minimum usable viewing width of 600 pixels.

29th July 2023

The New Bridge isn’t! It’s at the top (Southern end) of Jamestown and what we know about it is on our page Place Names.

We asked Artificial Intelligence to write us a page about St Helena. The resuot is on ourNEW PAGE Artificial Intelligence.

We’ve added the Rose & Crown Group to our page Glossary.

St Helena has had its first snake! Learn about it on our page Island Nature.

What is the Definitive Island History? We discuss this on our page Historians of St Helena.

Jamestown’s climate is warmer and drier than the island norms, which is now illustrated on the page Jamestown.

After extensive testing the recommended minimum usable viewing width has been reduced from 720 pixels to 600 pixels. (We have actually tested down to 300px but at lower widths layout is not optimal and some left-to-right scrolling is necessary.) If your viewing width is 600 pixels or below some cool features will be disabled to save space.

21st May 2023

The 2023 Wirebird Census results are now on our page The Wirebird.

A National Song, but also a National Hymn? Indeed! Since 1952 St Helena has had its own hymn. It was sung at the island service for the Coronation of King Charles III on 7th May. We discuss it on our page National Song.

There were two successive ships that served St Helena, both called the RMS St Helena, which can cause confusion. Having them both on the same page did not help! So now we have two pages: RMS St Helena (1990-2018) and a NEW PAGE RMS St Helena (1978-1990). We’ve also sorted out the names applied throughout the site: when it is clear to which ship we are referring we simply use the term ‘RMS’; in other cases we use RMS St Helena (1978-1990) or RMS St Helena (1990-2018).

Guano is a rich source of cheap fertiliser which used to be collected and used here, but no longer is. Read about it on our page Seabirds.

We report the recent arrival of the largest aircraft (to date) to land at St Helena Airport on our page Fly here.

There was some dispute over who drew the early map of Jamestown (below) and when, but in ‘Wirebird’, the magazine of Friends of St Helena{3} #6, Autumn 1992, it is attributed: John Thornton (1667-1705), one of the best-known Chartmakers of the later 17th Century, was Hydrorapher to The East India Company, and published an Atlas Maritimes c. 1700, from which this was probably taken. and ‘Wirebird’, the magazine of Friends of St Helena{3} is written by historians and that’s good enough for us!☺

25th April 2023

Our NEW PAGE discusses the possibility that Cannabis might become St Helena’s next industry.

We’ve expanded the small section on Religion on St Helena to a full page, with much more detail. See it at Religion.

We also have a new Community page for the Museum of St Helena.

We’ve provided a potted history of St Helena’s progress towards an electrical distribution network on our page Renewable Energy.

In 1971 Life magazine published a treasure hunt leading to a case of whisky, supposedly buried on St Helena. Read more on our page Zzyzx.

We have another in our series on Edible Wild Plants: Pig Weed (Amaranthus Blitum), and this also features a brief mention of Lemon Grass.

14th March 2023

The St Helena Ice Cream recipe may be the easiest ice cream you will ever make! It tastes like rich vanilla ice cream and there is no need for an ice cream maker… See it on our page Fishcakes, and other food.

We have included information about the ancestors of our Wirebird.

We have added more information about Dr. Ian Shine, who introduced equal treatment for Saints in health in the 1960s.

There is more information about the Art & Crafts Association.

22nd January 2023

In a physically isolated and largely closed population health issues will develop. We discuss these on our NEW PAGE Health Issues.

At Christmas various groups can be heard singing carols in Jamestown, usually outside the Tourist Information Office. You can hear Harford School on our pages Christmas and Sounds of St Helena.

Talking of our page Christmas, some say it should be called ‘Holidays’. We discuss our reasoning on the NEW PAGE Happy Holidays!.

After being postponed twice due to Covid‑19, The Governor’s Cup was finally run and we have the results.

We’ve added more information about Jonathan’s Birthday.