Race-Making/Race-Mixing: St. Helena and the South Atlantic World

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Yon
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic World ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Race Mixing ◽  
St Helena

The Sea of International Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Slaughter ◽  
Kerry Bystrom
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic World ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Global South ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Atlantic Rim ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

Responding to the way the Southern parts of the Atlantic have historically been obscured in conceptions of the Atlantic world and through the critical oceanic studies concepts of fluidity, solvency, and drift, this chapter serves as a critical introduction to the South Atlantic. Beginning with a rereading of the Atlantic Charter, it poses the South Atlantic both as a material geographic region (something along the lines of a South Atlantic Rim) and as a set of largely unfulfilled visions—including those of anti-imperial solidarity and resistance generated through imaginative and political engagement from different parts of the Global South with the Atlantic world. It also reflects on the conditions under which something called the “Global South Atlantic” could come into being and the modes of historical, cultural, and literary comparison by which a multilingual and multinational region might be grasped.

scholarly journals Recent decline of the St Helena Wirebird Charadrius sanctaehelenae

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEIL McCULLOCH
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
The South ◽  
Related Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Vegetation Surveys ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Atlantic Island

SummaryThe Wirebird Charadrius sanctaehelenae, a plover, is the only surviving bird species endemic to the South Atlantic Island of St Helena. The species is currently dependent on habitats that are wholly anthropogenic or extensively modified by human activity. A census carried out during 2005–2006 showed that the Wirebird has undergone a decline of more than 40% over a five-year period to a total of 235 individuals. The species now qualifies for re-classification as ‘Critically Endangered’. Vegetation surveys support the results of a previous study in suggesting that the decline may be associated with degradation of the Wirebird's favoured grassland habitat due to reduction of livestock numbers. Predation by introduced mammals and birds is also likely to be a factor but this remains unquantified. The Wirebird may face additional threats to its habitat in the future unless potential tourism-related development associated with the proposed construction of an airport on the island is closely regulated.

From Flanders to Pernambuco: Battleground Perceptions in the Portuguese Early Modern Atlantic World

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-341
Author(s):  
Miguel Dantas da Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Direct Exposure ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Prestige ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the way the Portuguese experience in the seventeenth-century battlefields of Flanders, during the Iberian Union (1580–1640), reshaped Portuguese military thought and culture. It argues that their traditional martial perceptions – almost exclusively based in imperial experiences, especially against the Muslims in North Africa and in India – were transformed by the direct exposure to Spanish military endeavours in Europe. It also argues that the experience in Flanders resurfaced in the South Atlantic, in all its religious and political dimensions, transforming the prestige of Brazil as a battlefield. Finally, the article revisits the way the Flanders experience poisoned Spanish–Portuguese relations.

Gough Island

Polar Record ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (19) ◽  
pp. 279-279
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Southern Ocean ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
Following Instructions ◽  
Gough Island ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Colonial Office

According to a note by Allan Crawford (Geographical Journal, xciv, p. 412) H.M.S. Milford called at Gough Island in the Southern Ocean at the end of March 1938. Following instructions from the Colonial Office, the captain landed with a party to hoist the Union Jack and declare this island a dependency of St Helena. Discovered in the sixteenth century by the Portuguese, and named by them Diego Alvarez, it seems to have been lost sight of until, in 1731, Captain Gough, homeward bound in his ship Richmond round the Cape of Good Hope, sighted an island in the South Atlantic, which henceforth went by his name. It was only slowly that geographers came to the conclusion that Diego Alvarez and Gough were one and the same island, and then the former name gradually disappeared from charts. Gough Island has been claimed as British territory since Captain Gough reported it.

scholarly journals The occurrence of mobulid rays at St Helena Island, Cardno seamount and Bonaparte seamount in the South Atlantic and its significance for conservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalea Beard ◽  
Leeann Henry ◽  
Samantha Cherrett ◽  
Alistair D.M. Dove
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Scuba Diving ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
North Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
Species Occurrence ◽  
The North ◽  
Photographic Evidence ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Frequent Visitor

AbstractData from 369 sightings of mobulid rays from St Helena Island, Cardno and Bonaparte seamounts in the South Atlantic are summarised. 50 % (183) of sightings were observed from a boat, 48 % (176) of sightings were encountered in water, of which 95 % (168) were whilst actively scuba diving. 2 % (10) of mobulid ray sightings were observed from land. Sightings data indicate that the Chilean devil ray Mobula tarapacana (Philippi, 1892) is a frequent visitor to St Helena and is present all year. We document the first photographic evidence of the presence of oceanic manta, Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) at St Helena. Two solitary individuals were photographed off the north coast of St Helena in June 2018. These sightings confirm previous unverified reports on the species occurrence and extend the known distribution range of M. birostris in the open South Atlantic Ocean to 16°S.

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