ST HELENA ISLAND - jewel in the south atlantic

[George888e]

Excelent Video !!!

Congratulations !!!

The Island certainly has a unique old British ‘atmosphere’

Ι hope that when the airport will be constructed , it will not loose its character….

It is one of my life’s ambitions and long term goals to visit St. Helena.

Perchaps by plane via Cape Town or London in the near future .

Greetings from Greece !!!

[mrsix2one]

Just remembering my last trans-Atlantic crossing when I spent my birthday and 2 weeks on the Island of St. Helena. A great video to watch and better yet a fabulous place to visit... I wonder if Ann's Place is still there?

[sthelena1]

@mrsix2one  annes place is still there.

[Andrea79395]

@mrsix2one you fucking idiot, where do you think Ann's would go? or was that thrown just for us to know that you have actually been there? FUCK OFF!

[marcdups]

What an island, Donkeys and 5 times more women than men, whoohoo. I have slid down Jacobs ladder, thank God I was young and stupid, Had a blast . Enough said !!

Oh and by the way they can thank me for a clean island.

[sthelena1]

@marcdups "Oh and by the way they can thank me for a clean island."

can i ask why, are you a saint?

[marcdups]

@sthelena1 A secret :)

[marcdups]

What an island, Donkeys and 5 times more women than men, whoohoo. I have slid down Jacobs ladder, thank God I was young and stupid, Had a blast . Enough said !!

[rawenayon]

wish i hadn't looked at this.  really home sick now. :(

[sthelena1]

@rawenayon sorry :-((

[McVillervay]

Wow what a beautiful place St-helena is ! I hope I will visit it someday. Greetings from Canada !

[sthelena1]

@McVillervay thanks

[anakinFoc]

anybody wants to represent beautiful St. Helena in an online music competition? would be cool to have anybody from this far away island! Fore more information see valnakinvision.webs.com, thank you!

[MYRT58]

my little Island...miss my family so much...god bless my family.

[Ladiesman1495]

My family is from here and at the moment my brother lives there too.

[sthelena1]

@Ladiesman1495 where about they from? im from half tree hollow

[Ladiesman1495]

@sthelena1 nice! my brother is the last house on half tree hollow and im the one after that one, the old school house

[PonderingPig]

So wonderful to see these photos of such a faraway and littleknown island. I've always wondered about it. Is is your home?

[sthelena1]

@PonderingPig yes it is my home

[kunoization]

one day i could see my self dieing here

[ArmandoVisconti]

Is at 0:41 Jacob's ladder?

[sthelena1]

@ArmandoVisconti yes it is

[sthelena1]

@mugdrums not good enough for surfing,



[pwn4fly]

napoleon was there huh?

[sthelena1]

@pwn4fly yes he was

[MightySerbianFighter]

i so wish to visit all those super small islands

[sthelena1]

@MightySerbianFighter its not cheap to get to but worth it



[inquestFLASH]

what a boring island!

[sthelena1]

@inquestFLASH if you say so dude, you would know having been their!!

[NorthernBoy2010]

Proud of one of the UK's last colonies, it looks amazing :D.

[Pr1ckles]

It's strange to see such a marvellous island isolated from other paradises similar to it, because it looks inspiring :-).

[ChorltonBrook]

I remember a tanker washing it's tanks out at night off a Thai island 25 years ago. It killed loads of coral, fish etc and spoiled the beaches. 

[sthelena1]

@ChorltonBrook what does that have to do with st helena?????????

[ChorltonBrook]

@sthelena1 Sorry for chatting crap, my mind started wandering when I saw that tanker on the vid and after I'd earlier googled : St Helena, one of the results was about an oil spill there. Hope the place stays nice.

[logitechnc]

@sthelena1 yea really

[renaultandme]

The Portugese didn`t have enoguh people to colonize all there nations, there top priority was to colonize Brazil and Angola,etc bigger coutnries not SH.

[Stinkinini]

@laton2010 You will find that the Government there is part of the British Overseas territories, so no Angolans there, Pal!

[renaultandme]

love the music!! porud to have 200 Saint Helenian visits on my page last.fm :)) u have a beautiful flag! i want to visit!

[lollerz16]

I'm a Napoleon fan boy and am desperate to visit here. It's so inaccessible though.

[sthelena1]

no probs, hope to do an update around 2nd week in may, will be visiting from 11th - 25 april. british esk i remember that tanker well. take care

[CURRYHOLIC1]

@sthelena1 The visit was tainted with sadness though. We had two St Helenian guys on board that had trained as police officers in Britain. On the morning of our arrival one of them committed suicide by hanging himself. I was on my way to the bridge to steer the ship into the anchorage and saw the panic as the skipper, chief mate and engineer were cutting him down. All very sad. We weren't allowed ashore until it had been confirmed that he had killed himself.

[CURRYHOLIC1]

Thanks for this, I was there in 1983, I worked on the BP tanker British Esk, we had to take some St Helenians back to Jamestown from Ascension Island. Such great memories, everything from watching the local kids slide down jacobs Ladder to seeing Napolean's grave to not forgetting how welcoming the local girls were to a bunch of British sailors. I can honestly say, after having seen a lot of this world that the St Helenians are probably the friendliest people I have ever met.

[laton2010]

This Island does not belong to UK, it belongs to Angola.

[sthelena1]

@laton2010 WHY, and how ?????????????????

[laton2010]

@sthelena1 I)I am Portuguese, in past 600 years we were good navigators and discovered many places, but we did not have plenty of people at time to colonize all of them. we only had people to colonize Angola, Cape Verde islands, Brazil, Mozambique, Goa, Timor Leste. If you see in the map StHelen Islands is in front of Angola , also it is located at angolan Waters.

[laton2010]

@sthelena1 II)continuation. Before 1975 Angola was clonized by Portugal, after 1975, Angola got independence from portugal, that means everything geographically in Angola, belongs to Angola. Read history, please.

[laton2010]

@sthelena1 England stole from Portugal centuries ago, when Portuguese were colonizing Angola and Brazil, Geographicaly it belongs toAngola that is independent country from Portugal since 1975 look at map please and read history

[JefferySanders]

@laton2010 How is it geographically belonging to Angola, that is like the US claiming Cuba is ours...and Cuba is way closer. Sounds like you are just mad your country of origin is full of a bunch of flapping Vagina.

[laton2010]

@JefferySanders MY FRIEND, ANYONE HAS A POINT OF VIEW. I THINK SHOULD RESPECT PEOPLE INDEPENDENT WHICH COUNTRY IS. IF YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF FROM A BETTER COUNTRY THAN MY COUNTRY YOU SHOULD GIVE THE EXAMPLE FROM YOUR WORDS. YOU USED NONSENCE WORDS.

[laton2010]

@JefferySanders ALSO IF YOU LOOK AT NAMES, ST, HELENA, TRISTAO DA CUNHA, ASCENCAO, IT ARE PORTUGUESE NAMES, NOT ENGLISH NOT SPANISH. PORTUGUESE COLONIZED ANGOLA AT THAT TIME. BECUASE THEY WERE STRONG NAVIGATORS AT THAT TIME AND THEY COLONIZED ANGOLA. THOSE ISLANDS PORTUGUESE DID NOT STAY FOR LONG. BRITISH WERE MORE INTERESTED IN IT.

[JuanKuzov]

@laton2010 err no it belongs to the people that live there

[colonelcathcartcatch]

@laton2010 flase, it belongs to UK !!!

[laton2010]

@colonelcathcartcatch you mean England stole from Portugal centuries ago, when Portuguese were colonizing Angola and Brazil, Geographicaly it belongs toAngola that is independent country from Portugal since 1975 look at map please and read history.

[skeletorphd]

I so want to see this place!!!

[sthelena1]

@skeletorphd its not cheap to visit

[mikeym820]

@sthelena1 It is not easy or quick to get to.

[Casio61]

Thanks for putting this up - looks a great place to be.

[matatan69]

when will the british goverment build an airport for St Helena, what are they waiting for, the island would become a tourist attraction and a boom to its economy.

[roachtoasties]

With no airport, I'll probably never get a chance to visit. Nice pictures.

[MiteraGea]

this is a trip, I actually viewed this island from google earth and found the same pictures there, but my question is, what kind of professional people reside there, and is it seasonal living with limited food resources and how can I get to there from Houston, Texas?

[Armandsbob]

You did not show Napoleons House

[9ChRiZ6]

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[sthelena1]

from around 25k to 80k

[kunoization]

cheep!!!

[fifelad]

Talking shite again its not a Naval base dickhead

[harenber]

Lovely pictures! Hope I can visit this island some day...

[topdown1000]

no place like home

[cavendish11f]

Where is 5:35? Does not look familiar to me :/

[sthelena1]

Harpers dam, scotts mill

[matatan69]

planeth earth is sooooo beautifull..

[wardy1982sainthelena]

NICE VIDEO. Will be going back there in jan 2010.

cannot wait

[RAZOR2177]

your late lol

[diarbe]

Wonderful video. What is that music called. Who composed it?

[sthelena1]

artist is MEDWYN GOODALL and the track is called temple journey

[reggaegirl65]

Cant wait to return home someday!!!!!!!! I great video!! hope you enjoyed every moment of creating it!

[janitormopmop]

how is it living there?

[haynet1962]

I'm an Englishman, aged 47, who used to work at the Unigate factory in Scrubs Lane (Willesden, London) in the early 1980s. There were loads of saints working there in those days. I remember the good times we spent drinking in the College Park and the Masons Arms and the William IV pubs. Do any of the 'Scrubs Lane saints' remember those days?

[limestick]

what a beautiful place i thought i,d look you up you,ve just been on local news you have a welsh policeman joining you shortly and although they interviewed his family at length they only mapped your island in the atlantic if you send some shots to BBC WALES Cardiff they will show them to all .......good luck

[BND58469]

I had no idea St. Helena Island was so lush, fertile and well maintained

Absolutely beautiful to see and lovely choice of background music

THANK you for posting this :)

[sthelena1]

@BND58469 thanks for the comments