Almost 2,000 kilometres directly west of the Namibian-Angolan border is an island called Saint Helena. As a British Overseas Territory, the roughly 4,400 individuals who inhabit the island are British citizens, however, it was the Portuguese who first set foot on its tropical shores at the very outset of the 16th Century. The island was uninhabited upon discovery, but soon thereafter, and for hundreds of years, became an important stop-over for ships traveling the “Cape Route” between Europe and Asia.
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