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The national park is situated 1 km off the coast of Nilaveli, a coastal town in Eastern Province, encompassing a total area of 471.429 hectares. The island's name derives from the rock pigeon which has colonized it. The national park contains some of the best remaining coral reefs of Sri Lanka. [1] Pigeon Island was designated as a sanctuary in ...
Pigeon Island is a 44-acre (180,000 m 2) islet located in Gros Islet in the northern region of Saint Lucia. Once isolated from the country in the Caribbean Sea , the island was artificially joined to the western coast of mainland in 1972 by a man-made causeway built from dirt excavated to form the Rodney Bay Marina.
Rodney Bay is a town and bay located in the Gros Islet District on the island of Saint Lucia. Gros Islet is one of the ten districts in the island. It can be found on the northwestern coast of the island above the Castries District, where the capital of St. Lucia is, and the former Dauphin quarter. [1]
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Coach store inside Vero Beach Outlets. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) (Jeff Greenberg via Getty Images)
Originally settled by the Carib (and possibly Arawak), the area was first identified as Gros Islet in a French map from 1717. [4] The community was a Roman Catholic parish, and the first priests who arrived on the island settled in the village in 1749. [5] In 1778, the Anglo-French War broke out between France and Great Britain.