Ascension Island

Mysterious incoming from  Ascension Island!

Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island in the equatorial waters of the South Atlantic Ocean, around 1,600 kilometres from the coast of Africa and 2,250 kilometres  from the coast of Brazil, which is roughly midway between the horn of South America and Africa. It lies 7°56' South of the Equator. It is governed as part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, of which the main island, Saint Helena, is around 1,300 kilometres  to the southeast. The territory also includes the sparsely populated Tristan da Cunha archipelago, some 3,730 kilometres  to the south, about halfway to the Antarctic Circle.