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Virtual Tours: St. Helena
The Full Tour
Map
Introduction
Features of Natural Interest
Features of Other Interest, including Cultural
Threats / Problems / Issues
Projects / Conservation Actions
Opportunities
Organisations and Links
Tour Selection
Features of Other Interest, including Cultural

St Helena possesses physical remains from a unique and varied built heritage. This includes: military defences and communication networks from the 17th century to the present; plantation houses and their estates; Napoleon’s residences; Georgian colonial architecture; a complete East India Company trading landscape; a distinctive vernacular building style that prevails across the whole island. The recent Rupert’s Valley Liberated Africans’ cemetery excavations have demonstrated the value of St Helena’s buried archaeological resource, and across the island other remains await discovery and exploration.

Top Left: St Paul's Cathedral, Top Right: High Knoll Fort, Bottom Left: Boer Cemetry, Bottom Right: Canon at Goat Pound Ridge


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