Ascension Island

We sailed to Ascension Island one day early  because we were going to divert from the West Africa Coasts of The Gambia and Senegal due to the Ebola epidemic that was spreading in those two countries. The island was discovered in the 1501, not inhabited until the British used it as an outpost while Napoleon was exiled on St Helena. The US built a runway on the island during WW II  as a staging area for the African campaign. Then in …