Mill Reef – Half Moon Bay

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Mill Reef – Half Moon Bay
Mill Reef - Half Moon Bay (Antigua and Barbuda)
Mill Reef – Half Moon Bay
Mill Reef – Half Moon Bay
Coordinates 17 ° 2 '55 "  N , 61 ° 40' 50"  W Coordinates: 17 ° 2 '55 "  N , 61 ° 40' 50"  W.
Basic data
Country Antigua and Barbuda
island Antigua

Parish

St. Phillip
Enumeration District 61700  Mill Reef_Half Moon Bay
ISO 3166-2 AG-08
Residents 33 (2001)
founding 20th centuryTemplate: Infobox location / maintenance / date

Mill Reef – Half Moon Bay is a location in the Parish of Saint Phillip on the Caribbean island of Antigua , in the state of Antigua and Barbuda .

Location and landscape

Mill Reef Half Moon Bay is a officially-statistical enumeration district ( english district enumeration ) in the remote south-east of the island. It includes the partly nameless locations between the outer south coast of Nonsuch Bay (around Grassfield Cove , Hungry Hill / Cork Point ), on Green Bay ( Ricketts Bay , Devils Cove , Little Deep Bay , Neck of Land , Great Deep Bay , The Brook ) via Watsons , Friars Head Bay and Friars Head to the south around theExchange Bay , Soldiers Point , Half Moon Bay , Hudson Point, and Mannings . Green Island and York Island are offshore.

Despite an extension of around 7 kilometers, the location has only about 30 (permanent) residents, the area is a hotel and villa area frequented only by rich foreigners.

Neighboring locations and locations:
Mont Pellier – Brownes Bay Nonsuch Bay
Freetown Neighboring communities Green Bay
Atlantic

History and infrastructure

The Nonsuch Bay is a good natural harbors of Antigua, albeit difficult to reach and shallow entrance, and Green Bay is one of two passages in the bay. A British position was built here on Hungry Hill early on, Fort Harman , which has now completely disappeared. Otherwise there were only a few smaller farms here - around 1770 the area is managed as Ten Acres Lands , state property that was parceled out for small farms - and a fishing settlement on Half Moon Bay.

In 1947 the Mill Reef Club was founded here, an exclusive vacation rental and yacht club with 45 founding members. The club also owns Green Island and has had a golf course since 1952 . In the 1950s the Half Moon Bay Hotel was built, one of the first tourist hotels in Antigua. From 1971 investors expanded it into the Half Moon Bay Resort , also with a golf course, increased the hotel from 66 to 100 beds and provided land for holiday homes. Over the years numerous celebrities and wealthy foreigners settled here. Due to the isolated, “ghetto” -like location, the area hardly contributed to the economic development of the structurally weak southeast of the island, on the contrary, large areas of the southeast tip of the peninsula are not freely accessible.

In 1995, Hurricane Luis devastated this area in particular and destroyed the Half Moon Bay Resort. A reconstruction was prevented by the Antiguan government, which would have gladly awarded it to the investor R. Allen Stanford - who had meanwhile been convicted of fraud in the USA - and the area was expropriated in June 2007. A final clarification of the ownership and the future of the complex has not yet been made, the hotel complex has largely fallen into disrepair. The beach is a seldom visited destination for locals and day trippers.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Statistics Office: Census 2001 , Volume I Summary Social, Economic, Demographic, and Housing Characteristics , St. John's, July 2004, Table 8 Population by Enumeration District and Sex. 4. St. Georges. P. 30 f .; ab.gov.ag (PDF; there p. 42; longer loading time).
  2. ^ Herman Moll : Atlas minor , 1716-1732, map The Island of Antego
  3. ↑ Plan of the Battery call'd Fort Harman . Map. In: Kane William Horneck (Ed.): A report of the state of the fortifications in the Island of Antigua and particularly those of English Harbor in the said island in the year 1752 . [Antigua] ( Viewer , jcb.lunaimaging.com - n.d. [1752]).
  4. ↑ 10 acres = 400  ares = 4  hectares
    cf. Natasha Lightfoot: Race, Class and Resistance: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in Antigua, 1831-1858 . Ed .: New York University. History. ProQuest, 2007, ISBN 978-0-549-42367-6 , pp. 212 ( limited preview in Google Book search). David Barry Gaspar:     Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua . Series e-books Duke scholarly collection . Ed .: New York University. History. New edition edition. Duke University Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8223-8177-8 , pp.
     98 ( limited preview in Google Book search - cited in Footnote 9 on Lightfoot).
  5. ↑ Map of Antigua . Robert Baker, Thomas Jefferys , 1775 ( File: Antigua 1775.jpg )
  6. ↑ Mill Reef Club (millreefclub.ag)
  7. ↑ a b Half Moon Bay Resort History . Antigua Investment Authority, accessed March 28, 2014.
  8. ↑ “ The spatial dichotomy is well illustrated by the juxtaposition of Freetown , an impoverished local settlement, with the opulent tourist ghetto of Mill Reef ” (German: “The spatial contrast [in land development] is well illustrated in the comparison of Freetown, a poor one local settlement, with the opulent Mill Reef tourism ghetto ”). Quote David B. Weaver: The evolution of a 'plantation' tourism landscape on the caribbean island of Antigua . In: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, Frank van Oort (Ed.): Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie . (TESG). 79, Issue 5, November 1988, ISSN  1467-9663 , pp. 328 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-9663.1988.tb01318.x ( limited preview in the Google book search - full article pp. 319–331; translation Wikipedia; abstract wiley.com).
  9. ↑ cf. Genivar: Sustainable Island Resource . Map 6.15 Accessability , p. 147 ( No public access mark ).
  10. ^ Ian Moncrief-Scott: Antigua and Barbuda: Stanford's First Major Victim - Half Moon Bay Hotel, Antigua? ( Memento from March 28, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Information Management Solutions, July 20, 2009. (English)
  11. ↑ The Remains Of Half Moon Bay Resort - Antigua . Gene Dexter, video on youtube.com, uploaded February 20, 2011 (tour of the ruins)
  12. ↑ Half Moon Bay — Set above one of Antigua's most pristine beaches , Christie's International Real Estate, video on youtube.com, uploaded November 30, 2011 (presentation)
  13. ^ Kyle Christian: Negotiations under way for sale of Half Moon Bay. What's happening? In: Antigua Observer. November 21, 2013, accessed March 28, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Half Moon Bay Beach . on antigua-guide.info, accessed February 10, 2014.
  15. ↑ Half Moon Beach . on antiguanice.com, Things to do ; accessed March 1, 2014.