Ascension Island
About Ascension Island
Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56′ south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is about 960 miles (1,540 km) from the coast of Africa and 1,400 miles (2,300 km) from the coast of South America. It is governed as part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, of which the main island, Saint Helena, is around 800 miles (1,300 km) to the southeast. The territory also includes the sparsely populated Tristan da Cunha archipelago, 2,000 miles (3,200 km) to the south, about halfway to the Antarctic Circle.
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In 2010, a group of botanists were doing this routine plant survey on Ascension Island — the tiny island in the South Atlantic. They saw what looked like a tiny mini parsley sprig on a sheer cliff face, sticking out of a rock.
from 206: No Such Thing As A Pig In Court, 2018-03-03 at 00:39:36 · read transcript
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Then he climbed in and he got the crate put in a place where it was gonna be picked up by a passing mail ship, put a fake address on in London, filled it with like clothes and matches and water and bedded down for the 20 day journey. Sadly, even though, there's also, even though he marks it with care and this side up, it was tossed around quite badly and he was very severely concussed. Then when they landed at Ascension Island, they got out sort of an unconscious damaged man and sent him straight back to St Helena. Oh, so he didn't die.
584: No Such Thing As Drinking A Sock Full Of Custard, 2025-05-22 · listen
You could just say, oh, no, I thought it was for people who are 30. Roman. That's true. Anyway, there's other ones. Dot-AC is the Ascension Islands. They have a population of 806, and that's used largely for academic websites. Dot-AC, it's also used for, I had no idea this was a big thing, air conditioning industries. It's a huge thing, air conditioning industries, and they use AC.
190: No Such Thing As A Magic Oven For Chimps, 2017-11-03 · listen
It was written by an American who is better known for his appearances on 8 out of 10 Catsda's countdown called David Mitchell. It's stunning. David Mitchell, he was nicknamed Old Saddlebags. He was a DJ on Ascension Island, which is, I was going to say nearby. It's not nearby, but it's the nearest place to St. Helena. Because St. Helena's in the middle of the ocean. He became friends with some people from St. Helena, and they suggested that he writes a song for them.
No Such Thing As Drinking A Sock Full Of Custard, 2025-05-22 · listen
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