September 2010
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“EIGHT hours or so after leaving Britain, the captain tells the cabin we’re ten minutes from landing. The video screens dotted throughout the cabin to relay the plane’s position to its passengers, though, show nothing to land on within an hour’s flying time, let alone a few minutes—just featureless blue Atlantic Ocean, almost equidistant between Africa and South America, eight degrees below the equator. Ascension Island, part of Britain’s overseas territories, is fascinating in many ways. But it is so small and off the beaten track that it’s not even worth a few pixels’ worth of programming to the providers of on-board entertainment.”
—The Economist on what it’s like to visit Ascension Island.
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