Question: What act gave control of Saint Helena to the British Crown?
Answer: 1833 India Act

Question: Who turned over control of Saint Helena to the British Crown?
Answer: East India Company

Question: During the latter half of the 19th century what ships became prevalent that weren't dependent on trade winds?
Answer: steam ships

Question: How many ships were going to the island in 1855?
Answer: 1,100

Question: By 1889 how many ships were going to the island?
Answer: 288

Question: Who established a naval station to cut down on African slave trade on the island in 1840?
Answer: British

Question: Between 1840 and 1849 how many freed slaves landed on the island?
Answer: over 15,000

Question: What were the freed slaves known as?
Answer: Liberated Africans

Question: Which french emperor gained possession of Longwood house and the land surrounding it?
Answer: Napoleon III

Question: What year did the French Emperor Napoleon III take control of Longwood house?
Answer: 1858

Question: Who was the last resident of Longwood house before Napoleon III took it over?
Answer: Napoleon I

Question: Who has authority over Longwood house?
Answer: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Question: Who arrived in Jamestown during their solo round the world voyage?
Answer: Joshua Slocum

Question: When did Joshua Slocum arrive in Jamestown?
Answer: 11 April 1898

Question: When did Joshua Slocum depart from Jamestown to continue his trip?
Answer: 20 April 1898

Question: Who presented two lectures on their voyage?
Answer: Sir R A Standale

Question: What country does the local industry that manufactures fibre get their flax from?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What island was made a dependency of Saint Helena in 1922?
Answer: Ascension Island

Question: What was the name of the airport the United States built on Ascension Island?
Answer: Wideawake airport

Question: What year was Wideawake Airport built?
Answer: 1942

Question: What did the Island sell for increased revenue during this period?
Answer: flax

Question: What year did flax prices peak?
Answer: 1951

Question: The British Post Offices decision to use what kind of fibres hurt the flax industry?
Answer: synthetic fibres

Question: What year did the Island's flax mills close?
Answer: 1965

Question: What year did the Union Castle shipping line slowly start to reduce their service calls to the island?
Answer: 1958

Question: Which shipping company replaced Union-Castle Line mailship service?
Answer: Curnow Shipping

Question: What year was Union-Castle Line mailship replaced?
Answer: 1977

Question: What right was lost by the citizen of the islands due to the act?
Answer: right of abode in Britain

Question: What department was formed to help raise the living standards of the citizens in Saint Helena?
Answer: The Development and Economic Planning Department

Question: What year was the Development and Economic Planning Department formed?
Answer: 1988

Question: Where was the only work outside of Saint Helena located?
Answer: Falkland Islands and Ascension Island

Question: What year was the replacement for the RMS St Helena launched?
Answer: 1989

Question: Who launched the replacement RMS St Helena?
Answer: Prince Andrew

Question: What route was the replacement RMS St Helena built for?
Answer: Cardiff–Cape Town route

Question: What kind of layout did the RMS St Helena have?
Answer: a mixed cargo/passenger layout.

Question: What year did the Saint Helena Constitution officially take effect?
Answer: 1989

Question: In 2002 what act granted full British citizenship to the citizens of the islands?
Answer: British Overseas Territories Act 2002

Question: What were the dependent territories renamed to?
Answer: British Overseas Territories

Question: How much money was spent on construction of the island's airport?
Answer: 250 million

Question: Which government built the island's airport?
Answer: UK government

Question: When was the airport expected to be fully functional?
Answer: early 2016

Question: Which industry is the airport supposed to help when it becomes complete?
Answer: tourism

Question: How many tourists are expected annually thanks to the airport?
Answer: up to 30,000

Question: What is the nearest port to Saint Helena?
Answer: Namibe

Question: What is the closest international airport to Saint Helena called?
Answer: the Quatro de Fevereiro Airport

Question: What is the mail boat that serves the island called?
Answer: RMS St Helena

Question: What hemisphere is the island located in?
Answer: Western

Question: What area is the island classified as being in by the United Nations?
Answer: West Africa

Question: How many square miles is Saint Helena?
Answer: 47

Question: What kind of rock are coastal regions of Saint Helena covered with?
Answer: volcanic

Question: How many feet high is the highest peak of Saint Helena?
Answer: 2,684

Question: What year did Diana's Peak officially become a state park?
Answer: 1996

Question: What was formed in 2002 to replant parts of the great wood?
Answer: Millennium Forest project

Question: How close are the rockets and islets off the coast?
Answer: one kilometre

Question: Which direction from the island is Upper Black Rock located?
Answer: South

Question: Which direction from the island is Bird Island located?
Answer: Southwest

Question: Which direction from the island is Lighter Rock located?
Answer: West

Question: Which direction from the island is Frightus Rock located?
Answer: Southeast

Question: What is the national bird of Saint Helena?
Answer: the Saint Helena plover

Question: What is the Plover known locally as?
Answer: wirebird

Question: What current affects the environment of Saint Helena?
Answer: Benguela Current

Question: On average, how much lower are the temperatures in the central areas in celsius?
Answer: 5–6

Question: How many districts is the island of Saint Helena divided into?
Answer: eight

Question: What do the districts also serve as?
Answer: statistical subdivisions

Question: When was Saint Helena first settled?
Answer: 1659

Question: What was the population of the island in 1659
Answer: 4,250

Question: Where were slaves initially brought from to the island?
Answer: Africa

Question: Later on, what two locations were slaves brought from?
Answer: India and Madagascar

Question: Which year did the inhabitants decide there were too many slaves?
Answer: 1792

Question: In 1840 what did Saint Helena become?
Answer: a provisioning station

Question: What squadron was Saint Helena a provisioning station for?
Answer: British West Africa Squadron

Question: What country did the British West Africa Squadron prevent slaves from being sent to?
Answer: Brazil

Question: How many slaves ended up staying on the island after being freed?
Answer: 500

Question: How many slaves were freed from the island?
Answer: many thousands

Question: When did Imported Chinese labor arrive?
Answer: 1810

Question: How many imported Chinese laborers were there at the peak of importation?
Answer: 618

Question: What year did importation of Chinese Laborers peak?
Answer: 1818

Question: What kind of citizenship do the citizens of Saint Helena hold?
Answer: British Overseas Territories citizenship

Question: On what date was full British citizenship restored to the citizens of the island?
Answer: 21 May 2002

Question: What act restored the full British citizenship of the citizens of Saint Helena?
Answer: British Overseas Territories Act 2002

Question: What was there a long pattern of from the island starting during the post Napoleonic period?
Answer: emigration

Question: When did the population of the island start to steadily decline?
Answer: late 1980s

Question: What was a big factor in emmigration to the UK?
Answer: prospect of higher wages

Question: What communion do most residents of the island belong to?
Answer: Anglican

Question: When was the 150th anniversary of the diocese celebrated?
Answer: June 2009