Ascension Island

South Atlantic Ocean · Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Photo: Ben Tullis from Cambridge, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
January to May
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A stark volcanic island in the tropical South Atlantic, its cinder cones ringed by beaches where green turtles nest. A greened mountaintop cloud forest contrasts with the lava desert below.

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