Pelican Island is a small private island located off the northeast coast of Antigua, at the eastern end of

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and immediately to the east of

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 ...

Geography

Pelican Island has an area of about 1.3 km². The island lies only about 137 metres from Antigua. This proximity also means that Antiguan infrastructures of power reach Pelican Island.

History

The island was one of the Antiguan properties involved in the

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case. The financier was said to have acquired the island, along with

Guana Island Guana Island is an island of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in the Caribbean. One of the few remaining privately owned islands in its part of the world, Guana has seven white powder-sand beaches and of tropical forest, mountains, hills, ...

in 2008 for $17 million, subsequently inflating its value by

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. In 2012

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included the island among "The world's best private islands for sale".

References

Private islands of Antigua and Barbuda {{Antigua-geo-stub