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HISTORY. The island was uninhabited when discovered by the Portuguese in 1502. It was administered by the East India Company from 1659 and became a British colony in 1834.
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Crawford, A., Tristan da Cunha and the Roaring Forties. Edinburgh, 1982
Cross, A., Saint Helena. Newton Abbot, 1980
Munch, P. A., Sociology of Tristan da Cunha. Oslo, 1945.
Munch, P. A.—Crisis in Utopia. New York, 1971
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Hunter, B. (1995). St Helena. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271241_149
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