Ruperts
View of Ruperts with the harbour in Rupert's Bay
View of Ruperts with the harbour in Rupert's Bay
Location on Saint Helena
Coordinates: 15°55′10.9″S 5°42′44.0″W / 15.919694°S 5.712222°W / -15.919694; -5.712222
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
British overseas territory Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Island Saint Helena
DistrictJamestown
Time zoneUTC+0 (GMT)
Area code+44

Ruperts, sometimes also written Rupert's,[1] is a village of the island of Saint Helena, in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, in the South Atlantic Ocean.[2]

History

It is believed that the village was named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619–1682), but it is uncertain.[1]

Geography

Ruperts belongs to the district of Jamestown, It is 3.5 km by road from Jamestown but is, as the crow flies, only 660 meters away from it, separated by a hill.

The village is composed by the zones of Rupert's Valley, inner and between two hills,[3] and Rupert's Wharf, by the sea and in front of Rupert's Bay.[4] Ruperts' main road runs into the valley to the harbour area, and the settlements spans on it for about 800 m.

Transport

Ruperts main street forks into two roads: Field Road to Jamestown (3.5 km), Briars (2 km) and Alarm Forest (4.5 km); and Airport Access Road to Longwood (7 km) and Saint Helena Airport (13.7 km).

It is a port village with a small harbour by Rupert's Bay, with a wharf, a fuel gantry and expanded with the opening of a new jetty, for largest ships, in February 2020.[5] In early 20th century Ruperts had a small narrow gauge railway, by the seashore, serving the local desalination plant. The Ruperts Railway had a small fork to the valley.[6][7]

See also

Some houses of Ruperts

References

  1. 1 2 "Why Ruperts": Ruperts on St. Helena official website
  2. ↑ Ruperts' page on Saint Helena official website
  3. ↑ 8397106714 Rupert's Valley on OpenStreetMap
  4. ↑ 7467276062 Rupert's Wharf on OpenStreetMap
  5. ↑ "The harbour and the new jetty of Ruperts": Ruperts on St. Helena official website
  6. ↑ "Our (Other) Railway": Ruperts on St. Helena official website
  7. ↑ Ruperts' Railway article on St. Helena official website
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