Jamestown is a harbour and the capital of St. Helena, founded in 1659 by the East India Company, when they built a fort and established a garrison at the site on James Bay, naming it after the Duke of York (later James II)
Jamestown consists of a little more than a single street, running up a narrow, deep-sided valley for a mile, to a height of 150m.
Its population is c.1000 .......hey, my neighbourhood has more people!
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If St Helena was a nice island with exotic nature and crystal-blue water, Bonaparte would enjoy his stay there a bit more ;) But anyway, I think it's always fun to receive postcards from small/exotic countries, isn't it?
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