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3 unusual facts about Ascension Island


Agena target vehicle

Over Ascension Island, a second burn would place the Agena into a low circular orbit.

Boatswain Bird

Boatswain Bird Island, a small uninhabited island nature reserve, home to many Boatswain Birds and other species, off the coast of Ascension Island.

Lawson v Serco Ltd

Lawson worked for Serco Ltd as a security guard on Ascension Island.


Ascension wrasse

The Ascension wrasse, Thalassoma ascensionis, is a species of wrasse native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, where it is known from St. Helena, Ascension Island, and São Tomé.

Islands of Africa

The Canary Islands and other territories of Spain are present in the Mediterranean Sea in the north Atlantic Ocean, and the British possessions of Saint Helena, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha are located off the southwestern seaboard of the continent.

Missile Test Project

MTP instrumented and operated the following tracking stations: CCAFS (designated AFE71), Grand Bahama Island (AFE73), Eleuthera Island (AFE74), San Salvador Island (AFE75), Mayaguana Island (AFE76), Grand Turk Island (AFE77), Antigua Island (AFE86), Chaguaramus, Trinidad (AFE87), Ascension Island (AFE83) and Mahé in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean (AFE89).

Sporobolus caespitosus

It is endemic to Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, where it is known only from the weather side of the Green Mountain area, where it occupies an area of less than 0.5 km².


see also

Arthur Morrell

Arthur Fleming Morrell (1788–1880), British naval officer, explorer, and colonial administrator of Ascension Island

Flag of Ascension Island

An unofficial flag was used to represent Ascension Island at the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in June 2012.

Johngarthia lagostoma

Many subsequent voyages halted at Ascension Island, and many visitors commented on the land crabs they found there, including William Dampier, Charles Darwin and Charles Wyville Thomson.

Philip Ashmole

In the same year he became a research student at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology (EGI) and accompanied the scientists' couple Bernard and Sally Stonehouse and the ornithologist Doug Dorward on a two-year expedition of the British Ornithologists' Union to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.

Vlasovite

Other localities for vlasovite include the volcanic Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, the Kipawa Complex, Villedieu Township, Quebec and the Strange Lake Complex in Labrador.