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The world’s most remote island open to tourists no longer takes five nights to get to

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One of the world’s most remote islands – famous for being where Napoleon was exiled – is about to open for tourists.

St Helena, a small, craggy island in the South Atlantic Ocean, hasn't seen many people in the past for good reason: It's one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. But you can still use British pounds.

Until 2017, it took five nights by boat to reach the British overseas territory, which is nearly halfway between southern and . Today, with weekly commercial flights and the recent arrival of high-speed internet, the government is hoping to breathe new life into a fledgling tourism industry that welcomed about 2,100 leisure travelers in

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