Baliceaux is a small, privately owned
Caribbean
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island and is one of the
Grenadines
The Grenadines is a chain of small islands that lie on a line between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Nine are inhabited and open to the public (or ten, if the offshore island of Young Island is counted): ...
chain of islands which lie between the larger islands of
Saint Vincent and
Grenada
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. Politically, it is part of the nation of
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines () is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Se ...
.
[Baliceaux Island (St Vincent)]
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History
Discovered by Spanish navigators during the fifteenth century, this island of 1,35 km² enjoyed a long and interesting history. It got prominence during wars 1769 - 1795 within the Caribbean region. Island highest point ''Gun Hill'', almost 126 meters above sea level, served as an observation station for soldiers between 1772–1797.
In the 1790s, the British army banished about 5000 Black Caribs
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to Baliceaux following the defeat of the rebellion of Carib Chief Joseph Chatoyer in Saint Vincent. Their descendants live today as the Garifuna people
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in Honduras
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, Belize
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, Guatemala
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, Nicaragua
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and in the United States
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.
The island had a small area where the Black Caribs that died from disease were buried. This has since been eroded over time by wind and sea, and very little remains of the area where the people were buried.
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See also
* First Carib War
* Second Carib War
References
Private islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Wars involving Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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