Guiana Island

Island off Antigua

For the island in the British Virgin Islands, see Guana Island.

Guiana Island

Guiana Island

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Geography
Location| Caribbean Sea
Coordinates| 17°07′21″N 61°43′47″W﻿ / ﻿17.12250°N 61.72972°W﻿ / 17.12250; -61.72972
Archipelago| Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles
Administration

Antigua and Barbuda

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Time zone|

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Private island
| Northeast coast. Marine Reserve.

Established| 2005
Website| Northeast Marine Management Area in Antigua and Barbuda

Guiana Island (or Guana Island) is an island off the northeast coast of Antigua, between the Parham Peninsula and Crump Island. It forms the southern coast of the North Sound, and is the fourth largest island of Antigua and Barbuda.

## Flora and Fauna

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Guiana is a refuge for the Fallow Deer, Antigua's national animal.[1] The island forms part of Antigua’s Offshore Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), designated as such by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of various bird species, including West Indian whistling-ducks, brown pelicans, laughing gulls, and least and royal terns.[2]

## History and development

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The island used to be owned by Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud in the United States. The Antiguan government has now sold the island and abutting mainland sites in a multimillion-dollar investment to Chinese developers termed the YIDA Project as a semi-autonomous Special Economic Zone.[1][3]

## References

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1. ^ a b The Guardian - Antigua moves to seize back Stanford's idyllic island
2. ^ "Offshore islands". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2024. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
3. ^ "Antigua, China investors plan big tourism project". Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-22.

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