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Key facts
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- British overseas territory
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Island
- Ascension
- First inhabited
- in 1815
- Founded by
- Royal Navy
- Named after
- King George III
- Capital of
- Ascension Island
- Total
- 450 (est.)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 (GMT)
- Climate
- BWh
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Named after
- George III
- Official name
- Georgetown
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 479
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Founded by
- Royal Navy
- Image
- Georgetown Ascension1.JPG
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- Georgetown, Ascension Island
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
The town is centred on St Mary's Church, part of the Anglican Diocese of St Helena and the former Exiles Club, built as a Royal Marines barracks at the time of Napoleon's exile to Saint Helena in the early 19th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Georgetown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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