St Helena
The island of St Helena lies in the South Atlantic north of the Tropic of Capricorn on a latitude with south Angola. It is a British Overseas Territory consisting of Ascension, St Helena and Tristan da Cunha. It has a surface area of 122 square km, though most of this is mountainous and hence the population in concentrated mainly in the valley of Jamestown, the capital. Current the population stands at 4,255
The island was first discovered by the Portuguese in 1502 who gave it its name. The East India Company managed the island for a considerable period from 1658 to 1815 and again as the British East India Company from 1821 to 1834. From 1815-1821 Napoleon Bonaparte was in exile on St Helena. In the 1830s it was directly ruled by the British as a crown colony and in 1922 it became a dependency. St. Helena received a status of partial autonomy in 1966.
Phonological features are the substitution of /w/ for /v/ and the frequent replacement of /θ/ and /ð/ by /f/ and /d/ so that bath is pronounced with a final /f/.
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