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Guiana Island (or Guana Island) is an island off the northeast coast of Antigua, between the Parham Peninsula and
Crump Island Crump Island is an island off the northeast coast of Antigua. It is located to the southeast of Guana Island in Belfast Bay, close to the town of Seaton's Seatons is a village in Saint Philip Parish, located on eastern Antigua island in Antigua ...
. It forms the southern coast of the
North Sound Sir Vivian Richards Stadium is a stadium in North Sound, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda. It was built for use in the 2007 Cricket World Cup where it hosted Super 8 matches. The stadium usually caters for 10,000 people, but temporary seating double ...
, and is the fourth largest island of Antigua and Barbuda.


Flora and Fauna

Island is a refuge for the
Fallow Deer ''Dama'' is a genus of deer in the subfamily Cervinae, commonly referred to as fallow deer. Name The name fallow is derived from the deer's pale brown colour. The Latin word ''dāma'' or ''damma'', used for roe deer, gazelles, and antelopes ...
, Antigua's national animal.


History and development

The island used to be owned by
Allen Stanford Robert Allen Stanford (born March 24, 1950) is an American financial fraudster, former financier, and sponsor of professional sports. He is serving a 110-year federal prison sentence, having been convicted in 2012 of fraud, on charges that his i ...
, who was convicted of fraud in the
United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
. 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.The Guardian - Antigua moves to seize back Stanford's idyllic island
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References

Private islands of Antigua and Barbuda Saint Peter Parish, Antigua and Barbuda {{Antigua-geo-stub