Ascension
Ascension Island is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, just south of the equator, 700 miles northwest of Saint Helena, the United Kingdom territory by which it is administered.Photo: Ben Tullis, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: LordHarris, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: island with 1,040 residents
- Description: island in the South Atlantic Ocean belonging to Great Britain
- Also known as: “ac”, “AC”, and “Ascension Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Green Mountain and Green Mountain National Park.
Green Mountain
Peak
Photo: LordHarris, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Green Mountain is a common name for "The Peak", the highest point and a stratovolcano on Ascension Island, which has gained some fame for claims that it is one of very few large-scale artificial forests. Green Mountain is ranked 38th by topographic isolation.
Green Mountain National Park
Nature reserve
Photo: LordHarris, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Green Mountain National Park is a nature reserve.
RAF Travellers Hill
Military installation
RAF Travellers Hill, originally known as Travellers Hill Camp, is a small military village of the British Armed Forces, located near Two Boats on Ascension Island, a British Overseas Territory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Georgetown and Two Boats.
Georgetown
Town
Photo: LordHarris, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Georgetown is the capital and chief settlement of Ascension Island, in the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, situated on the west coast of the island.
Two Boats
Village
Photo: Drew Avery, CC BY 2.0.
Two Boats, also known as Two Boats Village, is a village at the foot of Green Mountain on Ascension Island. Founded in the early 19th century, it was a originally a resting point for sailors who sought to ascend the mountain.
Ascension
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ascension” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ascencion”
- Afrikaans: “Ascension-eiland”
- Afrikaans: “Ascension”
- Afrikaans: “Ascensioneiland”
- Amharic: “አሴንሽን”
- Angika: “असेंशियन द्वीप”
- Arabic: “جزيرة أسنجين”
- Arabic: “جزيرة أسينشين”
- Arabic: “جزيرة اسينشين”
- Arabic: “جزيره أسينشين”
- Aragonese: “Isla Ascensión”
- Aragonese: “Isla Aszensión”
- Armenian: “Համբարձման կղզի”
- Asturian: “Islla Ascensión”
- Azerbaijani: “Ascension”
- Azerbaijani: “Askenson adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Merac adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Yüksəliş adası”
- Bashkir: “Олғашыу Утрауы”
- Basque: “Ascension uhartea”
- Basque: “Ascension”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Узнясення”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Ушэсця”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Ушэсьця”
- Belarusian: “Выспа Ўшэсьця”
- Bengali: “অ্যাসেনশন দ্বীপ”
- Bengali: “অ্যাসেনশন”
- Bosnian: “Ascension”
- Bosnian: “Ostrvo Ascension”
- Bosnian: “Otok Ascension”
- Breton: “Ascension”
- Bulgarian: “Възнесение”
- Catalan: “Ascensió”
- Catalan: “Ascension”
- Catalan: “Ascensión”
- Catalan: “Illa Ascensió”
- Catalan: “Illa Ascensión”
- Catalan: “Illa de l’Ascensió”
- Cebuano: “Ascension Island”
- Central Kurdish: “دوورگەی ئەسێنشێن”
- Chechen: “Стиглание Ваккхарин гӀайре”
- Chinese: “亚森松岛”
- Chinese: “亞森松島”
- Chinese: “亞森欣”
- Chinese: “亞森欣島”
- Chinese: “阿森松”
- Chinese: “阿森松岛”
- Chinese: “阿森松島”
- Croatian: “Ascension”
- Croatian: “Otok Ascension”
- Czech: “Ascension”
- Czech: “Ostrov Ascension”
- Danish: “Ascension”
- Dutch: “AC”
- Dutch: “Ascension Island”
- Dutch: “Ascension”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة اسينشين”
- Esperanto: “Ascensia Insulo”
- Esperanto: “Ascension”
- Esperanto: “Ascensiono”
- Esperanto: “Ĉielira Insulo”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Ascensio”
- Estonian: “Ascension”
- Estonian: “Ascensioni saar”
- Finnish: “Ascension Island”
- Finnish: “Ascension-saari”
- Finnish: “Ascension”
- Finnish: “Ascensioninsaari”
- Finnish: “Ascensionsaari”
- French: “Ascension”
- French: “Ile d’Ascension”
- French: “Île d’Ascension”
- French: “Ile de l’Ascension”
- French: “île de l’Ascension”
- French: “Île de l’Ascension”
- Gagauz: “Ascension”
- Galician: “Illa Ascensión”
- Galician: “Illa de Ascensión”
- Georgian: “ამაღლების კუნძული”
- German: “Ascension Island”
- German: “Ascension”
- German: “Himmelfahrtsinsel”
- Greek: “Αναλήψεως Νήσος”
- Greek: “Νήσος Αναλήψεως”
- Greek: “Νήσος της Αναλήψεως”
- Gujarati: “એસેન્શન આઇલેન્ડ”
- Hausa: “Ascension Island”
- Hausa: “Ascension”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Ascension”
- Hebrew: “אסנשן”
- Hindi: “असेन्शियन द्वीप”
- Hindi: “असेंशियन द्वीप”
- Hindi: “ऐसेंशन द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Ascension-sziget”
- Hungarian: “Ascension”
- Igbo: “Ascension Island”
- Indonesian: “Ascension”
- Irish: “Oileán na Deascabhála”
- Italian: “Ascensione”
- Italian: “Isola Ascensione”
- Italian: “Isola dell’Ascensione”
- Italian: “Isola di Ascension”
- Italian: “Isola di Ascensione”
- Japanese: “アセンション”
- Japanese: “アセンション島”
- Javanese: “Ascension”
- Javanese: “Pulo Ascension”
- Javanese: “Pulo Ascènsion”
- Kannada: “ಅಸೆನ್ಶನ್ ದ್ವೀಪ”
- Kazakh: “Асенсьон аралы”
- Kazakh: “Ассенсион”
- Kazakh: “Әскенжін аралы”
- Kazakh: “Әскенжін Аралы”
- Kirghiz: “Асценсион”
- Korean: “어센션섬”
- Kurdish: “Girava Asensiyonê”
- Ladin: “Ascension Island”
- Ladin: “Ijula de l’Assenscion”
- Latin: “Insula Ascensionis”
- Latvian: “Ascension Island”
- Latvian: “Debesbraukšanas sala”
- Ligurian: “Isoa de Ascension”
- Lithuanian: “Dangun Žengimo sala”
- Macedonian: “Асенсион”
- Macedonian: “Вознесение”
- Malagasy: “Nosy Ascension”
- Malay: “Ascension”
- Malay: “Pulau Ascension”
- Malayalam: “Ascension Island”
- Malayalam: “അസെൻഷൻ ദ്വീപ്”
- Marathi: “असेन्शन द्वीप”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ascension Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ascension”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ascensionøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ascension Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ascension”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ascensionøya”
- Norwegian: “Ascension”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ascension”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Upstigeieg”
- Oriya: “ଆସେନ୍ସନ ଦ୍ଵୀପ”
- Oriya: “ଆସେନ୍ସନ ଦ୍ୱୀପ”
- Oromo: “Ascension”
- Ossetian: “Зæрдæвæрæны сакъадах”
- Ossetian: “Ссæуыны сакъадах”
- Panjabi: “ਅਸੈਂਸ਼ਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਐਸੇਨਸ਼ਨ”
- Persian: “اسنشن”
- Persian: “جزیره اسنشن”
- Polish: “Ascension”
- Polish: “Wyspa Wniebowstąpienia”
- Portuguese: “Ascensão”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Ascensão”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Ascensão”
- Pushto: “اسنشن”
- Romanian: “Ascension”
- Romanian: “insula Ascension”
- Russian: “Вознесения Остров”
- Russian: “Вознесения”
- Russian: “остров Вознесения”
- Russian: “Остров Вознесения”
- Scots: “Ascension Island”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean na Deasgabhalach”
- Serbian: “Ascension”
- Serbian: “Акнезијско острво”
- Serbian: “Асенсион”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ascension”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Ascension”
- Shan: “ၵုၼ်ဢေႇသႅၼ်းသျိၼ်ႇ”
- Sinhala: “අස්සෙන්ෂන් දුපත”
- Slovak: “Ascension”
- Slovenian: “Ascension”
- Slovenian: “Otok Ascension”
- Somali: “Ascension”
- Spanish: “Ascension Island”
- Spanish: “Ascension”
- Spanish: “Ascensión”
- Spanish: “Isla Ascension”
- Spanish: “Isla Ascensión”
- Spanish: “Wildeawake Island”
- Swahili: “Ascension”
- Swedish: “Ascension”
- Swiss German: “Ascension”
- Tagalog: “Ascension Island”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Ascension”
- Tajik: “Асенсион”
- Tamil: “அசென்சன் தீவு”
- Tatar: “Ascension”
- Telugu: “అసెన్షన్ దీవులు”
- Thai: “เกาะอัสเซนชัน”
- Thai: “อัสเซนชัน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ascension”
- Turkish: “Ascension Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Вознесіння”
- Urdu: “Ascension Island”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ اسینشن”
- Uzbek: “Ascension”
- Uzbek: “Vozneseniye oroli”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Ascension”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ascension Island”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puro Ascension”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puro han Ascension”
- Welsh: “Ynys Ascension”
- Western Panjabi: “اسَینشن”
- Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ اسینشن”
- Wu Chinese: “阿森松島”
- Yoruba: “Ascension Island”
- Yoruba: “Erékùṣù Ascension”
- Yue Chinese: “亞森松島”
- “AC”
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