Mustique
| Mustique | ||
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| Waters | Caribbean Sea | |
| Archipelago | Grenadines | |
| Geographical location | 12 ° 52 '16 " N , 61 ° 10' 48" W | |
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| length | 4.8 km | |
| width | 2.3 km | |
| surface | 5.7 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Toucan Hill 183 m |
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| Residents | 500 88 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Lovell Village | |
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Mustique is an island in the Grenadines (part of St. Vincent and the Grenadines ) and is located in the Caribbean Sea . It is privately owned. Because it has luxury and seclusion, it has been visited by many celebrities in the past, for example Bryan Adams , Mick Jagger , Tommy Hilfiger and David Bowie . The painter Stefan Szczesny has also been coming to the island since 1995 and is working on his works there.
geography
Mustique is located approx. 28 km south of the main island St. Vincent , 14 km south of Bequia and approx. 240 km west of Barbados . In the south it reaches a height of 183 meters. It belongs to the Grenadines , which in turn belong to the Leeward Islands and thus to the Lesser Antilles . It lies between the Caribbean and the Atlantic , has some coral reefs and is about 5.7 km² in size.
The approximately 500 residents live in the villages of Lovell, Britannia Bay , Cheltenham and Dover.
history
During the 18th century, like many other British territories, Mustique was defended against the French. Three forts were built at strategic points: Liverpool, Percival and Shandy. Nelson's long blockade of Europe and the eventual victory over French admiral Villeneuve in 1804 cut France off from the sugar of the West Indies . Shortly afterwards, farmers discovered that sugar could also be obtained from sugar beets in Europe , which meant that the Grenadines were abandoned. On Mustique, the jungle grew over the seven sugar plantations: Endeavor, Rutland, Old Plantation, East Lot, Adelphi, Campbell Valley and Aberdeen. Only the sugar mill at Endeavor is left behind.
In 1865 Mustique was merged into an estate by the Hazell family of St. Vincent. In 1958 Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner , bought the island for £ 45,000 . There were no quays yet and the island was inhabited by 100 people in a ramshackle village, Cheltenham, near Cotton House . They worked in some fields and tried to grow cotton, peas and grain for the Hazell family.
One of the first villas, Les Jolies Eaux , was built by Princess Margaret on the southern tip of the island. Tennant gave Margaret, with whom he was close friends, about 4 hectares of land as a wedding present in 1960; certainly also with the ulterior motive to turn the previously unattractive Moustique ( French for the mosquito ) into an island of the jet set .
Since 1968 the island has been managed by the Mustique Company, an association of the owners of the land on the island. There are 89 private villas and two hotels operated by the Mustique Company on Mustique .
gallery
- photos
Mustique International Airport
grocery store
Beaches on the east coast
villa
Sugar mill
Sugar mill from afar
Beach on the west coast
literature
- Stefan Szczesny: Szczesny. Best of Mustique . Szczesny Factory & Publishing & Gallery, Saint-Tropez 83990, ISBN 978-3-9813406-0-0
- Stefan Szczesny: Szczesny. Picturebook Mustique . Colordruck Leimen, Leimen 66978, ISBN 3-00-004426-4
- Stefan Szczesny: Szczesny. Mustique . teNeues Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Kempen 47906, ISBN 3-8238-5591-3
Web links
Individual evidence
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