Some were going to St Helena, the nearest landmass some 700 km to the southeast, while others included deep sea fishermen, conservationists and people arriving to see the turtles. Johnny, who also owns a hotel and car hire business, tells me visitors to the island have increased steadily over the past few years. Residents Jacqui Ellick and Johnny Hobson say the island's economy could be potentially destroyed over the runway closure ≌urrently the only real way off for most of us is an eight or nine day journey by sea to Cape Town and to fly back to the UK that way - at a cost of £3000-4000 for the round trip and the ship, the RMS St Helena, only passes by every three weeks. ∾veryone's finding it hard to get to and from Ascension at the moment. Outside our house at the moment there are baby turtles erupting on a beautiful golden beach, he says. We have the second largest turtle colony in the Atlantic Ocean, says Johnny Hobson, the island's dentist who has lived on the island for 31 years. It is rough and rugged - barren in parts - but at its heart has a lush peak known as Green Mountain, home to rare bird colonies which are the result of a unique botanical experiment led by Charles Darwin. The island, which covers around 45 square miles just south of the equator, is formed by around 40 volcanic peaks. We do have gorgeous white sandy beaches, and pristine clear blue seas absolutely jam-packed with marine life - it's a very unique place. Half of the island looks like the surface of the moon, the other half looks like Mars, but in a good way, says Caroline Yon, station manager for the European Space Agency tracking station on Ascension. It's so remote, that when the Portuguese discovered it on Ascension Day in 1501, they didn't even bother colonizing it. The British overseas territory is the tip of an old volcano in the Atlantic Ocean, mid-way between Africa and Brazil.
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(Pic ALAMY) There are other planes that land: at the moment the American planes still land and the MoD have a C17 once a month for their own people (Pic MoD)Īscension Island, home to around 800 people, is even more cut off than it used to be after weekly flights linking the island to the UK were stopped - due to a dodgy runway and the wrong kind of RAF aircraft, according to a BBC report.
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