a tiny ten by mile speck in the south atlantic 1,200 miles from the coast of west africa , it lay undiscovered for around 14 million years able to evolve its own unique flora and fauna untouched by the outside world .
but almost from the moment portuguese explorer juan de nova was blown there by the trade winds in 1502 it assumed an importance out of all proportion to its size .
jamestown is the capital of the south atlantic island of saint helena , discovered by in 1502 by juan de nova that