Rooms Estate

Rooms
Rooms
Coordinates	17 ° 5 '50 "  N , 61 ° 42' 10"  W Coordinates: 17 ° 5 '50 "  N , 61 ° 42' 10"  W.
Basic data
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
island	Antigua
Parish	St. Phillip
Enumeration District	60100  Willikies- North
founding	Late 17th or 18th century

Rooms (also Rooms Estate , after a historic property) is a locality in the Parish of Saint Phillip on the Caribbean island of Antigua , in the state of Antigua and Barbuda .

Location and landscape

Rooms is located in the more remote east of the island, on the Atlantic coast. The location extends for about two kilometers on Mercers Creek Bay , one of the sheltered bays on the island-rich northeast coast. It includes several side bays of Mercers Creek Bay from Belfast Bay in the west to Lords Cove in the east. In front of Rooms are Codrington Island and Pelican Island .

The area is a residential area, and is included in Willikies , the largest town in St. Phillip's.

Neighboring locations and locations:

	Mercers Creek Bay
Seatons		Long Bay
Glanvilles	Willikies

History, infrastructure and nature

The Rooms property dates back to the early 18th century. It belonged to the Codringtons , who were among the most important early planter families on the island (in particular, they owned all of Barbuda ). It is recorded that Rooms passed from Colonel Christopher (II.) Codrington to his second son John Archibald when he died in 1738. It was one of the great tobacco, then sugar cane plantations. At the time, the property can still be found on maps on Belfast Bay. The residence was later moved to Laurys Bay, where it can be found around 1770. Rooms is still located there today.

There is nothing left of the historic farms today. Today you will find villa districts of Willikies and the luxury resort The Long House .

In particular, the east of the location is still completely uninhabited, and there are also some of the most extensive remaining mangrove populations on the island. Therefore, the Antiguan nature conservation organization Environmental Awareness Group (EAG) proposed a Rooms and Seatons Coast Protected Area . The marine areas have belonged to the North East Marine Management Area ( NEMMA , 78 km²) since 2006 .

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 p. 42 - longer loading time).
2. ↑ 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 No. 23. 3rd edition. Imp.Monégasque, Monte-Carlo 1953, 27. - Caribbean Sea , p. 14th f ., in PDF p. 16 (English, iho-ohi.net [PDF]).
3. ↑ (Unbek.): 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; limited preview in Google book search; full text on gutenberg.org).
4. ^ Herman Moll : Atlas minor. 1716–1732, The Island of Antego map.
5. ^ Robert Baker, Thomas Jefferys : Map of Antigua. 1775.
6. ↑ The Long House Antigua - peninsula ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (on antiguaholidayvillas.com) - with a picture gallery also of the landscape.
7. ^ The Caribbean Conservation Association - CCA (Ed.): Antigua and Barbuda - Country environmental profile . i. A. The Government of Antigua and Barbuda - Historical, Conservation, and Environmental Commission 1990. St. Michael (Barbados) 1991, Chapter 3 Costal and marine Resources: Mangroves , p. 87 , col. 2 f ., in PDF p. 108 ff. ( usaid.gov [PDF; 10.6 MB ] especially Figure 3.1 (3) - The mangrove areas of Antigua .).
8. ↑ 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, 3.2.1.4 Mangroves , p. 31 ff ., Sp. 2 ff ., in PDF p. 49 ff. ( ab.gov.ag [PDF; accessed on February 22, 2014] in particular Figure 3.9 - Critical environmental areas ). 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.  
9. ↑ Environmental Awareness Group: EAG'er. No. 2, St. John's (Antigua), 1990. Information in Genivar: Zoning Plan . 2011, 3.2.2.1 Significance of Ecosystems , p. 35 , col. 2 f ., PDF p. 53 f. ( ab.gov.ag [PDF]). 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.