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For a voyage that gets completely off the beaten track, it’s hard to beat the unique offerings of the RMS St Helena, says Simon Veness


The Journeys of the RMS St Helena


hen it comes to the more far-flung parts of the world, they don’t come much more remote than the


island of St Helena in the South Atlantic. Not only is it not on the map for many of the mainstream cruise lines, it receives only a handful of ship visits each year. Which is pretty significant when you discover this distant outpost – a British Overseas Territory 1,500 miles north-west of Cape Town in South Africa – can ONLY be accessed by sea.


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There is no airport on the rocky island, hence St Helena luxuriates in an air of iso- lation that is hard to find anywhere else in the world, a far-off destination best known for the exile of Napoleon in 1815. At just 47 square miles – the same size


as Walt Disney World in Florida – the island is both small and genuinely serene, a former volcanic outcrop discovered by the Portuguese and settled by the British in 1659. It is also one of the most fasci- nating places you can visit by ship. Which is where the RMS St Helena


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