Saint Helena & Dependencies
Located
in the central and southern Atlantic Ocean are a collection of very remote and widely scattered islands, islets
and emergent rocks that are collectively grouped together as the United Kingdom's overseas territory of Saint
Helena & Dependencies. It includes Saint Helena, Ascension Island and the islands of the Tristan da Cunha
Group. They have combined land area of 410 km².
All of the islands are extremely isolated: Saint Helena lies over 1,900 km west of southern Angola on the African coast and 2,900 km east of the Brazilian state of Bahia on the South American coast; Ascension Island — its nearest neighbour — is located 1,125 km to the northwest. The Tristan da Cunha Group is even more remote, being 2,275 km due west of Cape Town and 1,900 km southwest of Saint Helena, making Tristan da Cunha the most isolated inhabited island on earth.
The largest of the islands is Saint Helena at 122 km², with Ascension at 98 km². The Tristan da Cunha Group (135 km²) includes: Tristan da Cunha (96 km²), Nightingale (4 km²), Inaccessible Island (13 km²) and the small islets of Middle and Stoltenhoff. As an outlying member, the distant Gough Island (65 km²) is also treated as a member of the Tristan da Cunha Group, being located 425 km to the southeast of Tristan.
