article_snippet.sent: A tiny ten by six mile speck in the South Atlantic 1,200 miles from the coast of West Africa, the island lay undiscovered for around 14 million years able to evolve the island own unique flora and fauna untouched by the outside world.
article_snippet.sent: One day we climbed Diana’s Peak in the company of David Pryce, a mine-of-information Englishman known locally as The Bug Man who is on a three year project to catalogue the local invertebrates.
article_snippet.sent: the island’s only endemic bird so called because of the island spindly legs and something of a conservation success story.
article_snippet.sent: pilau – pronounced plo –
article_snippet.sent: There were also visits to the ‘world’s remotest distillery’ run by ex-pat Brit Paul Heckling who produces among other drinks a spirit called tungi made from prickly pear and’ the world’s remotest coffee plantation’ run by another ex-pat Bill Bolton who decided to revive the Bourbon Arabica bushes originally brought over from Yemen in 1732.
article_snippet.sent: St Helena is also home to the 'world's most remote distillery' and the 'world's remotest coffee plantation,' both run by British ex-pats .