Capes, Mark Andrew, (born 1954), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Governor, St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, 2011–16

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Tristan Da Cunha ◽  
Ascension Island ◽  
St Helena

THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF THE ISLANDS OF SAINT HELENA, ASCENSION, TRISTAN DA CUNHA AS AN OVERSEAS TERRITORY OF THE UK

2017 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Игорь Ирхин ◽  
Igor Irkhin
Keyword(s):  
General Characteristic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Quality Differentiation ◽  
Tristan Da Cunha ◽  
Ascension Island ◽  
Territorial Structure ◽  
The Government ◽  
Overseas Territories ◽  
The Uk ◽  
St Helena

This article gives general characteristic of the constitutional status of the overseas territories of the UK, show the directions of cooperation between the UK and the overseas territories. The author has made some conclusions on the flexibility and quality differentiation of constitutional and legal approaches of the organization of the political-territorial structure of the UK. The political and territorial relations between the UK and relevant overseas territory were proposed to classify as unitary with the elements of federalism. The author has confirmed the actuality of the question of the constitutional concretization of the competences of the Governor of St. Helena, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha. In order to provide a more complete account of interests of population of the overseas territories was raised the problem of the lack of constitutional provisions on the appointment of the Administrators on Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha with the opinion formed by elected Councils. The position on the advisability of the constitutional consolidation of the form and order of consideration of the interests of the Islands of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in the government of the Kingdom, as well as when considering the UK Parliament of legislative acts on issues relating to the whole Commonwealth was argued.

Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Tristan da Cunha and St. Helena

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horia R. Galea
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
New Records ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Tristan Da Cunha ◽  
Gough Island ◽  
The Common ◽  
St Helena ◽  
World Records ◽  
Second World

The present report provides the first account of the shallow water hydroids of St. Helena, which comprises 17 species, and adds nine new records to the hydrozoan fauna of the Tristan da Cunha group of islands, raising their number to 34. A total of 34 species, belonging to five families of Anthoathecata and eight families of Thecata, are discussed herein. Although distributional data are given for each species, brief diagnoses are provided for the lesser known or unidentifiable species, and the common taxa are occasionally accompanied by succinct remarks. Illustrations are provided for nearly all species in order to justify their identification and to facilitate identification by others.Fiordlandia protectaandFilellum bouvetensis,both from Gough Island, represent the second world records and extend their known area of distribution.

scholarly journals On a collection of caridean shrimps (Decapoda, Caridea) from St. Helena, south-central Atlantic, with further records from Ascension Island

Crustaceana ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (7) ◽  
pp. 869-879
Author(s):  
Sammy De Grave ◽  
Judith Brown ◽  
Peter Wirtz ◽  
Arthur Anker
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
The South ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
South Central ◽  
Ascension Island ◽  
Recent Collection ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Central Atlantic

Abstract We report on a recent collection of caridean shrimps from St. Helena in the south-central Atlantic Ocean, raising the total number of species known from the island to 24. Six species are newly recorded for the area, with no endemic species present. Additional three species are recorded from Ascension Island. A close biogeographical connection between the caridean faunas of St. Helena and Ascension Island is evident.

scholarly journals The fishes of Ascension Island, central Atlantic Ocean – new records and an annotated checklist

2014 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wirtz ◽  
Jane Bingeman ◽  
John Bingeman ◽  
Ronald Fricke ◽  
Timothy J. Hook ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fish Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Thunnus Obesus ◽  
Ascension Island ◽  
Manta Birostris ◽  
Carcharhinus Obscurus ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Kajikia Albida ◽  
Annotated Checklist ◽  
Central Atlantic

A checklist of the fishes of Ascension Island is presented. The speciesRhincodon typus,Alopias superciliosus,Isurus oxyrinchus,Carcharhinus obscurus,Galeocerdo cuvier,Sphyrna lewini,Hexanchus griseus,Manta birostris,Gymnothorax vicinus,Hippocampussp.,Epinephelus itajara,Cookeolus japonicus,Apogon pseudomaculatus,Phaeoptyx pigmentaria,Remora albescens,Caranx bartholomaei,Carangoides ruber,Decapterus tabl,Seriola dumerili,Thalassoma sanctaehelenae,Cryptotomussp.,Ruvettus pretiosus,Acanthocybium solandri,Auxis rochei,Auxis thazard,Euthynnus alletteratus,Katsuwonus pelamis,Thunnus alalunga,Thunnus obesus,Xiphias gladius,Istiophorus platypterus,Kajikia albida,Makaira nigricans,Tetrapturus pfluegeri,Hyperoglyphe perciformis,Schedophilussp.,Cantherhines macrocerus,Sphoeroides pachygasterandDiodon eydouxiiare recorded for the first time from Ascension Island. We have recognized two previous records as identification errors and indicate 11 other records as doubtful. Including the 40 new records, we now list 173 fish species from Ascension Island, of which 133 might be considered ‘coastal fish species’. Eleven of these (8.3%) appear to be endemic to the island and a further 16 species (12%) appear to be shared endemics with St Helena Island.

scholarly journals II. On the relations of the secular variation of the magnetic declination and inclination at London, Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena and Ascension Island, as exhibited on the magnetarium

1894 ◽  
Vol 55 (331-335) ◽  
pp. 210-217 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Science ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Magnetic Elements ◽  
Ascension Island ◽  
Secular Variations ◽  
Short Period ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Northern And Southern Hemispheres ◽  
Diurnal Rotation

In a paper which was read before the Royal Society in June, 1890, I showed that the principal phenomena of terrestrial magnetism and the secular changes in its horizontal and vertical components could be explained on the assumption of an electro-dynamic substance (presumably liquid or gaseous) rotating within the crust of the earth in the plane of the ecliptic, and a little slower than the diurnal rotation. By means of some electro-mechanism, new to experimental science, which I termed a magnetarium, the period of backward rotation of the internal electro-dynamic sphere required for the secular variations of the magnetic elements on different parts of the earth’s surface was found to be 960 years, or 22.5 minutes of a degree annually. It was also demonstrated that the inclination of the axes of the electro-dynamic and terrestrial globes to each other of 20° 30', was the cause of the inequality of the declination periods about the same meridian in the northern and southern hemispheres; as instanced in the short period of outward westerly declination at London, and the long period of outward westerly declination at the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena.

Spodoptera littoralis. [Distribution map].

1967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Spodoptera Littoralis ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Ascension Island ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Egyptian Cotton ◽  
New Distribution ◽  
Upper Volta ◽  
Distribution In Europe

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Spodoptera littoralis (Boisd.) (Lep., Noctuidae) (Cotton Leafworm of Egypt or Egyptian Cotton Worm). Host Plant: Polyphagous. Information is given on the geographical distribution in EUROPE, Crete, France, Greece, Italy, Majorea, Malta, Spain, ASIA, Bahrain, Cyprus, Dodecanese Islands, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, South Arabian Protectorates, Syria, Turkey, AFRICA, Aldabra Islands, Algeria, Angola, Ascension Island, Burundi, Cameroun, Canary Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comores Islands, Congo (Kinshasa), Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fernando Póo, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Principe, Réunion, Rhodesia, Rodriguez Islands, Rwanda, St. Helena, São Tomé, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leon, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Upper Volta, Zambia.

Who wants Swiss English?

English Today ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-33
Author(s):  
Adrian Pablé
Keyword(s):  
Falkland Islands ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Tristan Da Cunha ◽  
Scientific Exploration ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Official Status

Recently, new varieties of English, in particular insular ones, have been discovered and described by sociolinguists: Bermuda English, Falkland Islands English, St Helena English, Tristan da Cunha English, to name but a few. Concomitantly, applied linguists have started to take an interest in ‘lingua franca English’ as used in countries where English has no official status. Euro-English and, more recently, Swiss English are examples of such English as a Lingua Franca (hereafter, ELF) varieties. Any scientific exploration into unknown territory presupposes that there is something to be found – ideally something that already has a name. Quests for new varieties of English are motivated by the same fundamental desire, namely, to find ‘X-an English’ (Groves, 2011: 35).

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