Crump Island (Antigua)

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Crump Island
Waters Caribbean Sea ( Atlantic )
Archipelago Antigua ( Lesser Antilles , Caribbean )
Geographical location 17 ° 6 ′  N , 61 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 6 ′  N , 61 ° 43 ′  W
Crump Island (Antigua) (Antigua and Barbuda)
Crump Island (Antigua)
length 1.5 km
width 100 m
surface 21 hadep1
Residents uninhabited

Crump Island is a small uninhabited island off the Atlantic east coast of the Caribbean island of Antigua .

Location and landscape

Crump Island is located in the northeastern reef zone of Antigua, and is one of the medium-sized of its minor islands . It is north of Seatons between Mercers Creek Bay in the south and Guiana Bay in the north, and in front of the peninsula from Meadows / Coconut Hall, separated by a waterway only 50 meters wide. To the east is Pelican Island in front of Rooms . Administratively it belongs to Saint Peter's Parish .

The island itself measures about 1½ kilometers from west to east, its width varies around a hundred meters. sometimes it is only a few dozen meters wide. In total, the island has an area of ​​about twelve hectares .

The island rises only a few meters above sea level, consists of tropical bush forest and is partly lined with rock and partly with pure white beaches.

History and Conservation

The island was originally called Goat Island ('goat island'), but got its name from the Crump estate , which is now Coconut Hall, in the 18th century .

The island is privately owned and uninhabited. It has been relevant for both tourist development and nature conservation since the 1960s.

A Crump Island Wildlife Reserve ( Nicholson 1977 ) was proposed here in the 1970s . In the 1980s, a local group planned a Crump Island Coral Reef Marine Park  ( n.d. ). It was to include 177 hectares of marine landscape, a marine aquarium and a nature trail. The opening was planned for August 1991.

In the late 1990s, however, the Asia Village Resort was planned here, on the mainland, on Crump Island and Guiana Island , an extensive hotel complex of Malaysian investors. The government withdrew its support for this project after popular protests.

Since 2006 the island has belonged to the North East Marine Management Area ( NEMMA , 78 km²), a rather unspecific protected area. In 2007, an Offshore Islands Important Bird Area  (AG006), which includes the Antiguan minor islands as an important area for coastal birds, was also identified.

On the other hand, a luxury hotel and resort is being discussed by a Chinese investor again in the 2010s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 . 3. Edition. Special publication No. 23. Imp. Monégasque, Monte-Carlo 1953, 27. - Caribbean Sea , p. 14th f . (English, iho-ohi.net [PDF] there p. 16).
  2. ↑ a b Herman Moll , Atlas minor , 1716–1732, map The Island of Antego
  3. ↑ Map of Antigua . Robert Baker, Thomas Jefferys, 1775 ( File: Antigua 1775.jpg )
  4. ↑ D. Nicholson: Some of the important wildlife areas of Antigua and Barbuda. unpublished report, 1977; Information according to P. DeGeorges: Biodiversity and natural resources management, draft field notes . USAID jREMS, Bridgetown (Barbados) 1988; Compiled in The Caribbean Conservation Association - CCA (Ed.): Antigua and Barbuda - Country environmental profile . St. Michael (Barbados) 1991, Table 2.3 (4) Potential terrestrial biodiversity sites to be evaluated for designation as wildlife reserves , p. 83 , here p. 104 ( usaid.gov [PDF; 10.6 MB ]). registered in: Genivar Trinidad & Tobago; Ivor Jackson and Associates, Kingdome Consultants Inc. (Assoc.): Sustainable Island Resource Management Zoning Plan for Antigua and Barbuda (including Redonda) . Port of Spain December 2011, Critical Environment Areas map , p.
     according to p. 32 , there p. 56 ff ( ab.gov.ag [PDF; accessed on February 22, 2014]). ab.gov.ag ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ab.gov.ag
  5. ↑ CCA (Ed.): Country environmental profile . 1991, box Coral Reef Marine Park and map Figure 8.1 Antigua parks and protected areas (existing and proposed) , p. 159 resp. 151 , there p. 118 resp. 170 .
  6. ↑ Jeff Baldwin: The contested beach. Resistance and Resort development in Antigua, West Indies . Chapter 14. In: Carolyn L. Cartier, Alan A. Lew (Eds.): Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes . tape 19 from Critical Geographies . Verlag Psychology Press, 2005, ISBN 0-415-19219-6 , Part III The Beach , section The Asian Village: a cultural politics of place , p. 217 ff ., there p. 232 ff. ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ AG006 Offshore Islands, Important Bird Areas factsheet , BirdLife International (ramsar.org);
    Since Antigua and Barbuda has signed the SPAW protocol (Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife in the Wider Caribbean Region) of the UNEP , these areas designated by BirdLife International are legally relevant.
  8. ↑ Welcome to islands paradise resorts: Crump Island. ( June 14, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ) IPR Development LLC, accessed March 4, 2014;
    Hundreds sign to protect endangered species , Rory Butler on antiguaobserver.com, February 13, 2014.