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Sandy Island is a small island on which a local restaurant is located. From Sandy Ground, it can be reached in 15 minutes, and the owner of the restaurant provides free boat crossing. The island is small (ca. 250x75 meters), consisting of round white sands with a little vegetation in the middle, including shrubs and palm trees.
Among the agriculture produced in Anguilla includes tomatoes, peppers, limes and other citrus fruits, onion, garlic, squash, pigeon peas and callalloo, a leaf green native to Africa. [1] Starch staple foods include imported rice and other foods that are locally grown or imported, including yams , [ 2 ] sweet potatoes [ 2 ] and breadfruit . [ 1 ]
There are two restaurants and a bar which are serviced by staff who come in each day from the mainland of Anguilla. Thatch roofed structures provide the ambience for the vistas of the turquoise blue seas which attract visitors to the cays. [12] [15] The East Cay has a landing area which requires careful manoeuvring. [2]
Sandy Ground is a village and one of the fourteen Districts of Anguilla, and its main port. The long curved beach is backed by high cliffs and a disused salt pond . According to the 2011 census Sandy Ground has a population of 230.
Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. [1] Anguilla has become a popular tax haven, having no capital gains, estate, profit or other forms of direct taxation on either individuals or corporations. In April 2011, faced with a mounting deficit, it introduced a 3% "Interim Stabilisation Levy", Anguilla's first form of income ...
The economy of Anguilla depends heavily on luxury tourism, offshore banking, lobster fishing, and remittances from emigrants. Due to its small size, few natural resources , and reliance on tourism and foreign direct investment, Anguilla is vulnerable to external economic conditions in the United States , Canada and Europe .
The location of Anguilla An enlargeable map of the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Anguilla: Anguilla – one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin ...
"The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Mammals of Anguilla". IUCN. 2001 dead link ] "Mammal Species of the World". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 2005. Archived from the original on 27 April 2007 "Animal Diversity Web". University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. 1995–2006