Napoleon's final exile, in the middle of the South Atlantic
A volcanic British island roughly 1,950 km from the nearest continent, famous as the place the British exiled Napoleon Bonaparte after Waterloo — he died there in 1821 and was buried on the island for 19 years before France reclaimed his remains.
Discovered uninhabited by the Portuguese in 1502, Saint Helena became an English East India Company stop for ships rounding Africa, then a British Crown colony. Napoleon's exile from 1815 until his death in 1821 remains the island's defining historical chapter, but Saint Helena only got its first airport in 2017 — before that, the only way in was a weekly mail ship from South Africa.