That was a trip i made many many times. I was a rations clerk back there in late 90's . Paid to drive around there all day . Great memories would love to see the place again :)

I’ve always wanted to visit this island. It looks so strange! Almost like a cross between Hawaii, Arizona and Mars! I find it cool how isolated it is as well

@demonhalo67

11 ай бұрын

St Helena is like this too, arid near the coast and greener in the center. It is slightly larger and higher than Ascension, there is some variation in the temperatures given it is a further 10 degrees further south than Ascension but it isn't much. Not as warm for sure.

Takes me back. We stayed in Two Boats while fixing up the fuel pumping system at the airport. The 'convenience store' is also the filling station, and was open one lunchtime a week as I recall. Watched a movie at the US base outdoor cinema and walked up Green Mountain to the Dew Pond through waving giant bamboo.

What an absolutely surreal place. English accents and signs, american buildings and tropical landscapes.

@aguilaveloz9760

3 жыл бұрын

American is a continent friend. You want to say united state house.

As a Norwegian it was funny to hear the radio host talk about the Operation Joint Viking exercise in my country. I was a conscript in the army and was due to take part in the exercise in '21, but it was called off due to COVID. Cheers!

brought back happy memories, saw my house in George town, near to where the driver stopped.wonderful place, great people.fantastic scuba diving.

@lsr-anon

4 жыл бұрын

what did u do there? were u born there? how many people live there? It is so strange

@louiserobinson410

4 жыл бұрын

I worked for the BBC in the hospital

I crashed my Motorcycle going down that road in like 1985 from the red lion during the Queens birthday celebration. I used to go to the top kill the motor and drift down in neutral nothing but the humming of the chain and the grinding of the clinka when I went down...

Nice island, but very difficult to get to as I understand it. Nice to hear some .38 Special in the background too! :-)

Spent 6 months there from February to August 87.. How things have changed.

found this place on google earth, pleasantly surprised

Had a teaching job fixed up here in the early 80's but had to cancel my contract as father-in-law became very ill.

Absolutely loved my 3 mths here in 1982 ,would love tò visit again.

Awesome!

I'm flying down Tuesday. I'll be working in the FD. I'm bringing my bike and lots of fishing tackle.

@merk9569

Жыл бұрын

Any photos, videos or information on Ascension would be greatly appreciated by us housebound landlubbers!

Thanks for sharing else no one in world would know what it is like

Look at all that traffic.. must have been rush hour 😄 Terrific driving road.....

I enjoyed how you broadcast the CIA radio station.

Reminds me of Australia

This Island Must Be A Great Place To Chill Up...

Thanks for the Vídeo, is the only vídeo that I found that is about this Island.. good video

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I keep coming back to this video, simple and remote. But it's hard to find anything more mysterious than old abandoned Soviet military posts near Lake Balkhash in Kazakhstan, another favorite wanderland.

@kugul1683

2 жыл бұрын

I can't really find any deceny videos on Lake Balkhash, it really is quite mysterious

esta increible el sitio, yo vivo en las islas canarias y se parece a estas islas... me gustaria visitarlo

@markshelley5446

Жыл бұрын

It is an amazing place for sure

For First Time I Saw Ascension Islands😎 Is Radio Station Volcano Radio 😁❓Or BBC 🙆❓Ascension Islands Is Interesting For Me 😄 I Think That Ascension Is Nice Islands 🙆 Thanks To Upload 😀 Thank You So Much 🙇

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

2 жыл бұрын

it was USA Forces Radio and thank you for watching

Looks warmer than st helena

I found out about this place from the show Departures, I definitely would like to visit here! Also ignore the the Americans who say driving in left lane is wrong! I did it in New Zealand and loved it! Good video!

@williamfulgham2010

5 жыл бұрын

mnraiders 85, even though the Islands of Ascension and Saint Helena follow the UK, driving on the left lane, did you notice the trucks in this video were built with the driver on the US side of the vehicle, unlike the UK?

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

5 жыл бұрын

@@williamfulgham2010 there's a UK and US bases on the island so you get both types of vehicles

Thank you. Did not know that my interest for Atlantic islands would introduce me to a song I have never earlier Heard of. 5:09

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

6 жыл бұрын

Glad to help. The local American forces radio station was full of classics

Reminds me of the village from Lost.

God bless the queen

Traffic jams and congestion does not seem to be an issue on Ascension Island.

@JoleneCrowie

3 жыл бұрын

Only when a donkey is standing in the road lol

🇸🇭🇸🇭🇸🇭🇸🇭🇸🇭

Nice road

Must get a job with ESA and get stationed to their tracking station there :-)

I ran a few times into Georgetown and back to the barracks.

I'm surprised they get AFN out there. Wonder if they have a station on the island?

It looked like there were some Left hand drive vehicles there like that Dodge Ram. Must be weird having a left hand drive and driving on the left side of the road. Haha. I have a right hand drive Honda Civic here in America so I kinda know the feeling, except the opposite.

0:30 lol (It's traditional to wave at passing cars)

I am on island now. At Bedford House in Georgetown. I will try to shoot the same video and post it up for you. We had a new donkey born about a month ago! Island excitement

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

2 жыл бұрын

Great news. I really hope I get back there one day

@merk9569

Жыл бұрын

Did you post any other videos? I would love to see anything you have on any of the far flung islands on our planet. I was born on an island and grew up on a few thanks to my father’s service in the US Navy. I have an insatiable curiosity about the ones that are largely inaccessible to us common folk! Thanks!

@992F

Жыл бұрын

Merk, I have the ones that are on my page. Just me driving around. I am back on the mainland. My term there was up. Thanks for your interest, the island was an experience I won't soon forget

@992F

Жыл бұрын

@Mark Shellstar I finally got a couple vids posted. Not the best, but all I had

@merk9569

Жыл бұрын

@@992F. I will check them out. I found another video posted 4 months ago. I became disabled at a young age so traveling, my passion, stopped. Now that I have discovered these personally done videos on YT I am seeing islands I would never have seen otherwise. It is good to watch documentaries but seeing the destinations from a visitor’s perspective is more like experiencing it yourself. Thanks for posting!

Great video. The radio station? Not so much.

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

5 жыл бұрын

There wasn't much choice. :-)

looks beautiful and relaxing, is it hot and sunny all the time?

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

5 жыл бұрын

Was hot all the time and is all the time hence how arid the place is

@992F

Жыл бұрын

When I was there, it wasn't hot, but the wind never stopped. It wasn't cold either.

That looks like Arizona

@mauriciomarguil3686

4 жыл бұрын

some parts of Mexico also look like this

@smith5796

2 жыл бұрын

Last time I checked Arizona didn't have a coastline.

It's a beautiful island. This island looks Sahel or Australia. I imagine too it's calm and there are not too many people It's a strange dream to visit this island XD

I'm currently at ascension for 17 days.

I was on a ship that stopped there in 1964. None of this was there then... (USNS American Mariner)

The roads appear to be in much better condition and wider than St Helena...

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don't remember them being to bad at all. Once you got of the beaten track they were a little worse but not to bad.

@Joshdyisdifh

3 жыл бұрын

More space in Ascension Island I guess.

@bean420man

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, St Helena does have 6 times the population. It’s around 4800 vs 8-900

I ran from the sea to the pond in 1.58hr Due Pond Run

@Daniel-S1

4 жыл бұрын

I ran it in 1.10 and 51 seconds and I have a signed certificate to prove it, dated 26 Jan 1986. I lost a few seconds on the last bit of the muddy climb because the guy in front slowed down and there was no room to pass him. I was in the top ten and may have been 6th fastest, course I was only 23 years old back then!

Mantep broo

Is there any night life on the island? I may be taking a position there

How Can You Get There (Which Airline Flys Here)? Is There Any Hotels?

@Danjs112

3 жыл бұрын

RAF Flight

@MrMarko4

3 жыл бұрын

Brize Norton air bridge

Turn the radio up😂😂😂

We sucessfully ascended

Surprised to see so many fences and rock by the road preventing access.

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

3 жыл бұрын

it was the military base

When did you go there?

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

6 жыл бұрын

I was there March 2017

what happens if you run the stop sign?

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

2 жыл бұрын

you may scare a donkey

@dlivex9492

2 жыл бұрын

The military will fo after him lol

No es tan pequeña la isla!!! Puede pasar por muchos sitios, por su paisaje y vegetacion !!!

Whose territory is this island? I thought this place was a bird sanctuary island.

@tissraotaku3435

3 жыл бұрын

@Ed Ward well, news and music on the radio didn't sound very UK to me...

@Dtuba15

3 жыл бұрын

@@tissraotaku3435 it's a UK island The airbase is a joint uk/us air base and the island is also home to a GPS tracking station for nasa. Also with the help of Charles Darwin and another naturalist they turned a good chunk of baren island into a man made rainforest.

@jamesm9127

2 жыл бұрын

It the British outpost

Will it become as large as Iceland if the volcano continues to do its 'business' ?

@demonhalo67

11 ай бұрын

Island has been volcanically inactive for a few hundred thousand years as it was previously formed directly over the divergent boundary zone . It is a stratovolcano that has moved off the south Atlantic ridge.

Where is the clinic were they put this Saints in for a couple of years!!!😁

Party on Wayne, Party on Garth!

@newyorkwanderer3290

3 жыл бұрын

This is a British Island , but the United States has operated an airfield there since 1942. There is a bird sanctuarie on the Island which is also a UNESCO heritage site the Island is also a nesting site for green turtles.I lived there for 7 years.

@bean420man

3 жыл бұрын

@@newyorkwanderer3290 so that explains the American presence. Had wondered that because I was sure that Ascension has been a British possession for quite some time now.

The geology of this island looks far more exotic than st helena.. more like an exotic island destination.. more flat yet ok bit barren but still looks much better that the way more populated st helena... why they didnt make this the center of the region and chose st helena which is surely beautiful but too hilly and without any beaches i ll never get!! And infrastructure is great also!!

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

3 жыл бұрын

Infrastructure is not that great on Ascension and it's very mountainous and a scientific research and listening base. I don't think they would want lots of tourists pouring over it.

@ArrowBast

2 жыл бұрын

I think St Helena has much more reliable water supply due to its terrain, latitude and catchment and much closer to Cape Town when South Africa was still under British Empire. Ascension was almost barren till they realized a forest can be created to capture moisture from trade winds , since Ascension is much closer to the equator. St Helena is much more rugged than Ascension and that topography is better suited to capture moisture from the atmosphere.

Looks like a nice place to retire.

@williamfulgham2010

5 жыл бұрын

Adolfo, Mark Shelly is much more on top-of the subject than I am, since I am still just trying to get to Saint Helena. But the way I understand it, although Ascension can be traveled to under certain circumstances, you cannot just travel there and retire because there are no permanent residents allowed on the small island. In other words if you're there for very long, you must have a legal working reason to be there, which means that children are allowed to be with their parents and attend schools while their parents are employed in some way or another for either entities of the US, or the UK, if they wish to remain after finishing school, they must have a job to remain on the island. Is that more or less correct Mark?

I am a retired US Army Officer and I am doing some KZread touring and research concerning places - especially remote islands - that are somewhat off the 'beaten path' - such as Ascension, St. Helena, Tristan Da Cunha and Pitcairn. My now deceased Dad was stationed there many years ago when he worked for Pan American Airways and they had a US government contract to do work at some facilities there. I never asked him what he did and he never really said much about the place except that the fishing was excellent. It looks really boring with not much to do except to work, hang out at the military supported clubs and maybe on the beach. I hope that I am wrong. Is there much of a social life there? Are there interesting things to do or be a part of? Or are most people straining at the bit to get off the island? Can you catch a military flight from the US to Ascension? Any commentary or information would be most welcome and appreciated.

@talldarkstranger1829

6 жыл бұрын

JockBaloney Hi I am from st helena Island and I went to school on Ascension Island. I now live in nyc .there is a us Military flight from the Island once a week, stopping in Antigua to refule before arriving in Patrick air force base in cape Canaveral fl.and the address to the us base on Ascension Island is a post number box ,Patrick Air force base. but I forgot the box number. The islands of st Helena and Ascension are quite peaceful Islands. if you are thinking about visiting ,I would recommend going via England or capetown on to st Helena and then fly over to Ascension Island. there is a weekly flight from St Helena..best o f luck .

@porkulate

6 жыл бұрын

Gavin Lamborghini How amazing is that! I really would like to visit St. Helena some day - first and foremost. I have been to Antigua several times as my Dad was stationed there with my Mom many years ago. I have also visited Cape Town SA with my girlfriend who is from there but she is now a US citizen. So Cape Town via WindHoek in Namibia sounds like the best way for me to go or maybe catch a USAF MAC flight from Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. That sounds like a possibility as well as I live in the US state of Georgia just to the north of Florida. I am fascinated by the history of St. Helena and the scenery and sense of isolation seem almost 'other worldly'. I can imagine that you have some fond memories growing up there as a child. I was born in Trinidad and Tobago a former British colony but my parents read the writing on the wall that there was no future for us there so we all picked up and moved to the USA to Pennsylvania where my Dad was from. Thank you for responding Gavin and for the flight information as well. I know that the flights are very costly but I do hope to travel to St. Helena some day. I can only begin to imagine what a drastic change NYC must be for you compared to Ascension Island and St. Helena. But these places are all that contribute towards making life interesting. All the best my friend. And thank you so much for taking the time and being kind enough to respond to my query. You are a good man indeed! Cheers and stay safe in NYC!

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

6 жыл бұрын

If you are in to night skies and wildlife its a brilliant place to visit. The lack of the Air bridge flight hit trade though so not sure how it is now until the runway can take the A330 again

@Grimmes12

6 жыл бұрын

Gavin Lamborghini I am New Yorker since 1990, but I am vicarious traveler via KZread and these types of secluded places intrigue me. I hope you like NY, as I don't, although I was brought up here.

@garycampbell9986

5 жыл бұрын

I spent some time on Ascension working on government projects.....for Speegle, a bunch of slugs! Neville Hearn and his bunch made it memorible.....I remember taking some land crabs to the governor......smokin good weedeand havin an adventure! I had the time of my life there! .....Went on to St Helena.....Traci I still think of you.....you beautiful thing! She never gave it up, but I remember being in love with her!

Por relieve ls isla de santa elena , no es tan mala !!!

Local radio station ?

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

2 жыл бұрын

USA Forces Radio

@timmaidens7483

11 ай бұрын

ZD8VR, Volcano Radio "The Voice of Ascension"....I was a DJ once, perhaps not a very good one, but I was there.

What supermarkets and restaurants are there?

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

5 жыл бұрын

There were two restaurants I knew off but one was at the Hotel which I understand is closed now

@cleric7788

4 жыл бұрын

There is now 3 walmarts on the island.

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

4 жыл бұрын

@@cleric7788 what?

@Sealed_Chamber

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes There is now 4 walmarts on the island.

@Fabio-gc1xf

2 жыл бұрын

Starbucks near the Yorkshire crescent.

I was watching a similar video about St Helena and they were waiting keenly for the ship to come in for fresh fruit except bananas which they grow what's the situation on ascension some of it looks very lush why aren't they growing loads of tropical fruit guavas mangoes coconut and being self-sufficient in fresh fruit

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

4 жыл бұрын

Everything is imported apart from the fish. Its a volcanic rock island and only some cleaver work with bamboo has bought greenery to the island really.

Bonito el sitio. Pero es de africa o de america!!! Militarmente para que les sirve, ??? Para localizar submarinos rusos o sovieticos que pasan por alli???

Pueden parecer las islas canarias, pero en canarias vive mucha mas gente, y no estan aisladas de las rutas aereas y navales .

My question is :: How many people live there ?? Ascension island, st. helena, pitcairn island, falkland islands and tristan de cunha.. This island belongs to england ?? About asencion island looks no shop, no gas, no school, no people in the street.. look silence.... About st helena i saw the city on the hill.. looks dangerous..

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

6 жыл бұрын

There is gas, and school oh and a shops oh and I met people in the streets. Admittedly since the flights from Brize stopped due to the runway issues its had a big impact but you can now get flights direct from St Helena and the flights from the UK will be back in 2020

@zapfanzapfan

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, good, I was going to ask what the state of the runway was. Seems like serious lack of care going from being an emergency runway for the space shuttle to not even be suitable for commercial planes.

A strategic UK land asset for all intensive purposes in the mid to South Atlantic, this dry rugged rock offers little for any island society as it has a limited functioning ecosystem, little freshwater and limited ways to create energy. I can see why the Spanish Armada quickly moved on to the America's.

@ArrowBast

10 ай бұрын

Them Spanish did not have the innovative mindset of the Brits. Brits have turned this otherwise difficult piece of volcanic rock into a fairly livable habitat ( with some external support) .

Isla militar??

@markshelley5446

Жыл бұрын

there are military bases on the island but it is a research island mainly

Do you work on the US Forces?

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

2 жыл бұрын

no

@ByCd

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes how can an individual get there?

@demonhalo67

11 ай бұрын

It's a working island, no right of abode on Ascension, you finish you're assignement or reason for being there you'd be expected to leave. Some visits from scientists and conservationalists are allowed but holidays/vacations is normally not allowed there.

Wonder if they still paint the lizard when they leave like they did in the 70s🦎😂😂

@deepbludude4697

3 жыл бұрын

We did or didnt do it, ya know if ya did or didnt want to go back....

@newyorkwanderer3290

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they still paint the lizard near the gasoline station on the road to George Town, sometimes they paint that boat stuck in the dirt between two boats village and the junction to English Bay power house.I was out there in 1994

It’s near to Angola so there’s portuguese speaking people over there?

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

2 жыл бұрын

Don't think so. Everyone speaks English

@Eipotttatsch

2 жыл бұрын

It’s still a good 3000km of ocean to Angola from this island. And there is no real way to get there from Angola.

@enriqueroman62

2 жыл бұрын

Near Angola ? Lol

@ByCd

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes ok, thanks.

@ByCd

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eipotttatsch my fault then, i saw from the map, never really checked the real distance lol.

dónde k da esa isla

@jamespink9554

4 жыл бұрын

@@moshvilleshellster9406 South Atlantic

Que tendran alli los ingleses o los yankis??? Por lo menos no tuvieron que echar a nadie como en en la isla de diego garcia!!! Que reclaman su isla !!!

Pueda ser que entre en erupción. Malditos piratas

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

2 жыл бұрын

nah it will not erupt

Listening to AFN! So funny! As boring as ever!

STOP means stop which you ignored. Great

@moshvilleshellster9406

4 жыл бұрын

I wasn't driving and you can see for a long way either side. Had there been traffic we would have stopped but stopping when there is nothing for a good mile or so in any direction and factoring in that the speed limit is 40mph it would have been a stop for nothing.

@smith5796

2 жыл бұрын

Where is a Constable when you need one.

@seanshaw8321

2 жыл бұрын

@ btakesa bet you’re fun at parties 😂

Clearly no architects have been employed. Awful buildings

@JoleneCrowie

3 жыл бұрын

Its all military. They were just put there for working purposes.

@smith5796

2 жыл бұрын

Lol. Call the National Trust.

Video would have been better without all that hideous music

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

3 жыл бұрын

In fairness we don't all have the same musical tastes. It was the local American military radio station and I quite liked the music

@Outandaboutwithpoggy

3 жыл бұрын

Mark Shellstar Fair comment Mark, I guess. I'm just getting older, when i was younger i was into Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Aerosmith, now its Classical , nice place by the way, better than where I live, West Bromwich UK

@i_know_youre_right_but

2 жыл бұрын

@@Outandaboutwithpoggy didn’t expect to see someone from my hometown on here! It’s a shithole but it’s our shithole.. Up the baggies😄

okay I'm not an ignorant American. I have traveled all over the world. but it still bothers me that you're driving on the wrong side!!!!

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

6 жыл бұрын

You my friend travel on the wrong side of the road. The left is the best side to drive on. :-) Try it some time. legally of course

@porkulate

6 жыл бұрын

The island is a British possession. Their land and their rules.

@Richdbiskit

6 жыл бұрын

Yep. ignorant American. A third of the world drive on the left, yet you claim you have traveled "all over the world". Clearly not.

@petermuller5800

4 жыл бұрын

@@Richdbiskit Two thirds of the world travel on the right. The right side is the RIGHT side to drive on!

@Richdbiskit

4 жыл бұрын

@@petermuller5800 you're wrong, but that was not my point. The commenter claims to have been "all over the world" and not seen anyone drive on the left. A 3rd of the world drive on the left so he has clearly not been "all over the world".

Fake island. Simulated video. Hawaii is where its at -Starseed

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

5 жыл бұрын

So what meds are you on?

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

5 жыл бұрын

@JoaoCosta85 lol

@jaycee330

3 жыл бұрын

Since when does Hawai'i use UK standard signage on roads?

this island belongs to africa and would be one day taking back from the British Babylon

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

Жыл бұрын

The island had no life at all on it until it was used by the Spanish and then the brits and it was not capable of growing anything until British scientists used bamboo sticks to collect moisture from the air and turn a mountain of rock in to a green mountain. You don’t just get to claim an island that has never been inhabited by Africans and not even within any African countries territorial waters. Which African country wishes to lay clam to it?

@Nectpost

Жыл бұрын

@@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes any island closer to a country or continent belongs to that country 🤔, by law not by assumption

@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes

Жыл бұрын

@@Nectpost 100% untrue maybe you should learn a bit about law before talking about it

@Nectpost

Жыл бұрын

@@ShellsOfMoshvilleTimes OK I hear bruh

@richhughes7450

Жыл бұрын

Dream on.