Island of the week: São Tomé & Príncipe
With 209 kilometers of coast line, the double-island is favored by both tourists looking for a peaceful getaway, and giant sea turtles, who come ashore in the morning hours to lay their eggs.
Situated close to the Equator, São Tomé & Príncipe is becoming increasingly famous for its stunning wild life. Expect a close encounter with grey parrots, humpback whales and the many mona monkeys nested in the welcoming rain forests that cover most of the country.
The double island was inhabited when the Portuguese first settled there in the late 16th century, and the country still speaks Portuguese to this day, even though it got its independence in 1975.
Precisely a century ago, British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington came on the island and demonstrated Einstein’s theory of general relativity for the very first time. It was during the solar eclipse of 1919.
Today with only 7000 inhabitants, São Tomé & Príncipe relies mostly on a developing tourism trade and the production of cocoa.
On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the expedition, São Tomé & Príncipe released a set of stamps showing the physicist in front of the island’s landscape.
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