Description
Lying in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa is the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, made up of two main islands and a scattering of roughly a dozen other smaller islands. Our aerial image focuses on Banana Beach, a popular destination on Príncipe, the smaller of the two main islands. Príncipe isn't just scenic, it's important in science history: during the total solar eclipse in 1919, astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington observed the event from the island, verifying Albert Einstein's theory of relativity by photographing the gravitational deflection of starlight.