St Helena : Profile

Facts

• One of Britain's last remaining colonial possessions, the island of St Helena lies halfway between Africa and South America, with her two dependencies of Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

• St. Helena has only one harbour called James Bay. The rest of the coast is towering rocky cliffs backed by lush green slopes climbing up to the highest spot on the island, Diana's Peak, at 823 metres.

• St. Helena's popularity as a port of call for passenger liners has now been taken over by sailing yachts, a large number of which stop there every year. A warm welcome awaits the visiting sailor ashore in Jamestown, the island's main settlement and only harbour.

Marine Sightings Sheet Marine Sightings Sheet Noonsite Page, fishdir@anrd.gov.sh The St Helena Fisheries Directorate has a local marine sightings scheme which they would like yachts coming to St Helena to participate in. Follow the link to the Marine Sightings Sheet Noonsite page to fill out the form and send it to : Emma Bennett, Marine Scientific Officer, Fisheries Section, Agriculture and Natural Resources Department St Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean STHL 1ZZ

Weather

The climate is tropical, but cooled by the SE trades, and the cold Benguela current from the Southern Ocean. The weather is warm and occasionally humid, but it varies within the island and it is sometimes foggy or misty.

St Helena Weather Forecast.

Main Ports

Jamestown *

*Indicates a port of entry.

Related Reports

A Visit to Namibia, St. Helena & French Guiana in 2009 (16 Aug 2010)

Update from the South Atlantic island of St. Helena (03 Feb 2010)

South Atlantic Circuit (10 Feb 2006)

St Helena cruising report 2002 (25 May 2002)

Related News

Routing: Getting Back to Europe - Avoiding GOA and the Red Sea (19 Aug 2011)

Governors' Cup 2010 - From Capetown To St. Helena  (31 Mar 2010)

World ARC Circumnavigators head into the South Atlantic (04 Jan 2009)