Roncador Cay is a small island of the

Roncador Bank Roncador Bank is a mostly-submerged atoll with several sandy cays. It lies in the west Caribbean Sea off the coast of Central America. Geography It is about 15 by 6 kilometers in size, with an area of 65 km2 composed mostly of lago ...

, located in the west

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

, off the coast of

Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. C ...

, east-northeast of

Providencia Island Isla de Providencia, historically Old Providence, and generally known as Providencia, is a mountainous Caribbean island that is part of the Colombian department of Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the municipality o ...

History

The USS ''Kearsarge'' ran aground on a reef off the cay on February 2, 1894, and, being deemed unsalvageable, was declared lost by the United States Navy. Colombia and the United States have claimed the cay but the United States abandoned its claim in a 1972 treaty.

References

''CIA World Factbook'' on Colombia

1972 Treaty

Caribbean islands of Colombia Islands of the West Caribbean Islands of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina Atolls of Colombia Caribbean islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act Former disputed islands {{Colombia-geo-stub