{"id":3507,"date":"2019-12-16T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islanddomains.earth\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2020-03-11T16:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T07:03:54","slug":"sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islanddomains.earth\/en\/sh\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Just Napoleon’s Exile! Google is laying undersea cables to Saint Helena, the 19th stop on the “Interlink Domain Island Tour”, a place with a 187-year-old giant tortoise and many haunted spots."},"content":{"rendered":"

A British territory, Saint Helena is known as the island where French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled until the end of his life. A more recent hot topic, Google announced that the latest technology would be used to lay undersea cables to St. Helena. After the domain expedition to Ascension Island where I investigated the one-ring-international-call hoax, now I am exploring the little known charms of St. Helena.
\nSponsored by Interlink Co., Ltd. which deals with more than 1,000 Top Level Domains (TLDs) around the world, the Domain Island Tour is currently focused on about 50 types of “Island Domains” in the South Pacific and Caribbean, such as “.cc” “.tv” “.sx”, actually going to the these islands and reporting on their features.<\/p>\n

\u25c6Where is Saint Helena?<\/h3>\n

St. Helena, a British Colony, is a volcanic island located in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,800 km from the west coast of Africa. It is only 122 square kilometers. It is also called a remote island. Administratively, it belongs to the British Overseas Territories of “Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”, and the official language is English. The currency is the “Saint Helena Pound” (SHP), but British Pounds can also be used without any problem. All pound signs in the text are British pounds. One pound is about 141 yen (as of December 2019).<\/p>\n