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Communications
Highways: 87 km bitumen-sealed roads, 20 km earth roads
on St. Helena; 80 km bitumen-sealed on Ascension; 2.7 km
bitumen-sealed on Tristan da Cunha.
Ports: Jamestown (St. Helena), Georgetown (Ascension).
Merchant marine: 1 passenger-cargo ship totaling 3,150 GRT/2,264 DWT.
Airports: 1 with permanent-surface runway 2,440-3,659 m on Ascension.
Telecommunications: 1,500 radio receivers; stations--1 AM, no FM,
no TV; 550 telephones in automatic network; HF radio links to
Ascension, then into worldwide submarine cable and satellite
networks; major coaxial cable relay point between South Africa,
Portugal, and UK at Ascension; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth
stations.