Codrington Island
| Codrington Island | ||
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| Waters | Caribbean Sea ( Atlantic ) | |
| Archipelago | Antigua ( Lesser Antilles , Caribbean Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 17 ° 6 ′ 9 ″ N , 61 ° 42 ′ 21 ″ W | |
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| length | 400 m | |
| width | 300 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Codrington Island is a small uninhabited island off the Caribbean island of Antigua .
Location and landscape
Codrington Island is located on the north-east coast of the Atlantic , in Mercers Creek Bay in front of Rooms , about 50 meters inland. Directly north is Pelican Island - the two islands are connected to the mainland by a reef stick. To the northwest is Crump Island . The side bay of Mercers Creek Bay, which Codrington Island helped to form, south of the island is called Lords Cove .
Codrington Island is about 400 meters long and a maximum of 300 meters wide with a bay to the west - here is another small pre-island. It rises only a few meters above sea level, consists of tropical bush forest and has no beach whatsoever.
History and Conservation
The island takes its name from the Codrington family , who were among the most important planters of the island, in particular they owned the whole of Barbuda (whose main town is also named after the family). Here they had the Rooms property .
The island is now state property ( Crownland - Antigua and Barbuda is a monarchy). Since 2006 it has belonged to the North East Marine Management Area ( NEMMA , 78 km²), a rather unspecific protected area.
As part of the Antiguan Racer Conservation Project to rescue and reintroduce the very rare domestic snake, the introduced rats and also the little mongoose were exterminated. A herd of Andean llamas had also run wild here, which had caused severe erosion damage until the 1990s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b according to local understanding, the Antiguan east coast is considered "Atlantic"; the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) defines the Caribbean-Atlantic coast along the 100-fathom line (approx. 180 m), which lies a few nautical miles from Antigua. International Hydrographic Organization (Ed.): Limits of oceans and seas . Special publication. 3. Edition. No. 23 . Imp.Monégasque, Monte-Carlo 1953, 27. - Caribbean Sea , p. 14th f . (English, iho-ohi.net [PDF] p. 16).
- ^ Organization of Eastern Caribbean States - Environment and Sustainable Development Unit; Ecoengineering Caribbean Limited (Ed.): Northeast marine management area (NEMMA), Antigua (= Environmental and socio-economic studies for OPAAL demonstration sites . Eco report , no. 10/2007 ). St. Augustine, Trinidad, WI July 31, 2007, Table 1: Offshore islands in NEMMA , p. 43 (English, parkscaribbean.net [PDF] p. 67).
- ↑ forg. (unknown): Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants. Volume II, Saunders and Otley, 1844, Appendix, Nos. 8 & 9. Genealogy of the Codrington family. (Republished series Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition. Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-108-02777-9 , there p. 335. Restricted preview in the Google book search gutenberg.org (full text)).
- ^ A. Barun, CC Hanson, KJ Campbell, D. Simberloff: A review of small Indian mongoose management and eradications on islands . In: CR Veitch, MN Clout, DR Towns (Ed.): Island invasives: eradication and management . IUCN, Gland (CH) 2011, p. 17–25 ( issg.org [PDF]).
- ^ Adrian Hailey, Byron Wilson, Julia Horrocks (Eds.): Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas . tape 2 : Regional Accounts of the West Indies . BRILL, 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-19408-3 , Invasive large herbivores , pp. 31 ( limited preview in Google Book search).