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Also, Lopo Homem-Reineis published the " Atlas Universal " about 1519 which clearly showed the locations of St Helena and Ascension.

The first residents all arrived on Portuguese vessels.

Its first known permanent resident was Portuguese, Fernão Lopez who had turned traitor in India and had been mutilated by order of Albuquerque, the Governor of Goa.

Fernando Lopez preferred being marooned to returning to Portugal in his maimed condition, and lived on Saint Helena from about 1516.

By royal command, Lopez returned to Portugal about 1526 and then travelled to Rome, where Pope Clement VII granted him an audience.

Lopez returned to Saint Helena, where he died in 1545.