Ascension, a bare volcanic island in the Atlantic, rising to nearly 3000 ft., belonging to Britain, 500 m. NW. of St. Helena, and 900 m. from the coast of Africa; a coaling and victualling station for the navy.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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