Green Island (Antigua)

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Green Island
Waters Caribbean Sea ( Atlantic )
Archipelago Antigua ( Lesser Antilles , Caribbean Islands )
Geographical location 17 ° 4 ′ 15 ″  N , 61 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 17 ° 4 ′ 15 ″  N , 61 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  W
Green Island (Antigua) (Antigua and Barbuda)
Green Island (Antigua)
length 2 km
width 650 m
surface 40 ha
Highest elevation 10  m
Residents uninhabited

Green Island is a small uninhabited island off the Atlantic east coast of the Caribbean island of Antigua . The island forms the most easterly point of Antigua and the state of Antigua and Barbuda in the Man of War Point .

Location and landscape

Green Island is located off the southeastern peninsula of Antigua, at the southern entrance to Nonsuch Bay . Green Bay , a bay-like strait, extends to the mainland south of the island , while Green Island is only about 350 meters from the land in front of Cape Cork Point . Administratively it belongs to Saint Phillip's Parish .

The island itself measures about two kilometers from west to east, its width varies by two south-facing peninsulas in the range of a few hundred meters (maximum 650 m), which means that several protected bays are formed. In total, the island has an area of ​​about 40  hectares . An oceanfront peninsula ends in Man of War Point, as eastern tip of Antigua (as a region, East point of the main island is the Neck of Land ), from the Atlantic up over 4,000 kilometers on the approximately the same width lying Cape Verde covers.

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. There are reefs and rocks on both sides, the northern reef blocks the entire Nonsuch Bay and stretches to Long Bay .

Use and conservation

The island has been privately owned since 1947 and is owned by the Mill Reef Club in Mill Reef . It is considered an excellent snorkeling area, and day trips to the island are offered.

In 2002 the Antigua slender snake (Antiguan Racer, Alsophis antiguae ) was established here. It was exterminated on the Antiguan mainland by rats and Indian mongooses , which were introduced against sugar cane pests in the 19th century, and was considered extinct. A small population had survived on Great Bird Island . After a resettlement measure on Rabbit Island was successful, the project was extended to Green Island. The rat population - there should also have been a few mongooses here - was deliberately destroyed.

The island has been part of the North East Marine Management Area ( NEMMA , 78 km²) since 2006 , a rather unspecific protected area. In 2007, BirdLife International also described an Offshore Islands Important Bird Area  (AG006) under which the Antiguan minor islands are summarized as an important area for shorebirds. A Green Island Reefs Park Reserve for the southern reefs and a more extensive Green Island Wildlife Reserve ( Nicholson 1977 ) have been proposed but not yet designated as local protected areas. The latter stretched roughly 500 acres across the northern reefs to Indian Point, where it would overlap with Devils Bridge National Park .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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] p. 16).
  2. ^ A b c 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).
  3. ↑ a b 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.
  4. ↑ a b Green Island Beach , antigua-guide.info: Beaches
  5. ^ The Antiguan Racer Conservation Project ( Memento from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), antiguanracer.org
  6. ↑ Jennifer C. Daltry: Reintroduction of the critically endangered Antiguan Racer Alsophis antiguae to Rabbit Island, Antigua . In: Conservation Evidence . No. 3 (2006) , 2006, pp. 33-35 ( conservationevidence.com [PDF]).
  7. ↑ Jennifer C. Daltry, Donald Anthonyson, Mathew N. Morton: Re-introduction of the Antiguan Racer to offshore islands of Antigua, West Indies . In: Pritpal S. Soorae (Ed.): Global Re-introduction Perspectives: Additional Case Studies from Around the Globe . IUCN, 2010, ISBN 978-2-8317-1320-5 , pp. 98–103 ( Google eBook, full view of the article in Google book search - on Rabbit Island in particular p. 100).
  8. ↑ A. Barun, CC Hanson, K J. 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]).
  9. ↑ suggestion of unknown provenance; registered in:
    MD Spalding, C. Ravilious, EP Green: World Atlas of Coral Reefs . Ed .: UNEP-WCMC. UNEP-WCMC, 2001, ISBN 0-520-23255-0 , chapter Eastern Caribbean and Atlantic: The Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago , table Protected Areas with coral reefs and map 6c, insert top right, p. 166 f. resp. 159 ( Reader, archive.org ; Google eBook, full view in Google Book Search). German world atlas of coral reefs . 2004, ISBN 3-7688-1587-0 ( Reader, archive.org ).
  10. ↑ 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 ( usaid.gov [PDF; 10.6 MB ] there p. 104). 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) . Self-published, Port of Spain December 2011, Critical Environment Areas map , p.
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