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History. The island was administered by the East India Company from 1659 and became a British colony in 1834.
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Paxton, J. (1983). St Helena. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271128_137
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