On January 1st, 2020, St Helena enters what will potentially be the most important and consequential decade in its history.

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Suddenly, 800 tourists arrive on the tiny island of St Helena.

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When you go to a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the South Atlantic and get invited to dinner by the island's top two economists, you say yes.

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200 years of St Helena's history in a tidy 30 minutes. 

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Extremities is back for season 3--this time, in the middle of the South Atlantic.

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Svalbard is in its prime, but that could soon end.

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The high arctic is not normally home to thriving economies but somehow, Longyearbyen's is.

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Barentsburg--a Russian town nestled within a Norwegian archipelago.

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