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| Location | Caribbean Sea | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 17°07′21″N 61°43′47″W / 17.12250°N 61.72972°W | ||||||||
| Archipelago | Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles | ||||||||
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Guiana Island (or Guana Island) is an island off the northeast coast of Antigua, between the Parham Peninsula and Crump Island. It forms the southern coast of the North Sound, and is the fourth largest island of Antigua and Barbuda. The 2011 census recorded a permanent population of 0.[1]
Flora and Fauna
Guiana is a refuge for the Fallow Deer, Antigua's national animal.[2] The island forms part of Antigua’s Offshore Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), designated as such by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of various bird species, including West Indian whistling-ducks, brown pelicans, laughing gulls, and least and royal terns.[3]
History and development
The name is a corruption of "Guiana". An estate house was built on the island in 1727.[4] In 1856 an estate known as "Narrows and Guano Island" was home to nine people– seven men and two women in three homes.[5] The island used to be owned by Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud in the United States. The Antiguan government has now sold the island and abutting mainland sites in a multimillion-dollar investment to Chinese developers termed the YIDA Project as a semi-autonomous Special Economic Zone.[2][6]
References
- ↑ "Antigua enumeration districts 2011". Archived from the original on 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2026-01-02.
- 1 2 The Guardian - Antigua moves to seize back Stanford's idyllic island
- ↑ "Offshore islands". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2024. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
- ↑ "Guiana Island – Antigua Sugar Mills". Retrieved 2026-02-09.
- ↑ Commons, Great Britain Parliament House of (1858). Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons. Ordered to be printed.
- ↑ "Antigua, China investors plan big tourism project". Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
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