This site was originally set up to fill a gap in media coverage of St Helena and the South Atlantic. The site continues as random news blog and information point for St Helena.
St Helena is a remote British Island far to the west of Africa. There will be occasional references to other South Atlantic Islands.
This site was originally maintained by Simon Pipe, a former print and BBC journalist who spent five months on St Helena in 1996/7, when he wrote for the St Helena News and broadcast. Read more about us