It was here that Napoléon Bonaparte was sent in 1815 to live out his last years as a defeated exile. From the ocean the island looks like a formidable fortress.
और इसका सबसे करीबी महाद्वीप, अफ्रीका का दक्षिणपश्‍चिमी तट इससे १,९५० किलोमीटर दूर है ।