Culpepper Island
Culpepper Island is located in Barbados
Culpepper Island
Culpepper Island
Tiny Culpepper Island is just 30 m away from Barbados.
Culpepper Island is located in Lesser Antilles
Culpepper Island
Culpepper Island
Culpepper Island (Lesser Antilles)
Culpepper Island is located in Caribbean
Culpepper Island
Culpepper Island
Culpepper Island (Caribbean)
Geography
LocationCaribbean
Coordinates13°09′57″N 59°26′36″W / 13.16583°N 59.44333°W / 13.16583; -59.44333
Length40 m (130 ft)
Width50 m (160 ft)
Highest elevation18 m (59 ft)
Administration
ParishSaint Philip
Additional information
Time zone

Culpepper Island is a tiny rock (islet) in the Atlantic Ocean close to Bayfield and Ragged Point in Saint Philip, Barbados. The island is uninhabited.

Geography

It is quite possible to wade out to Culpepper Island from the mainland during low tide as it is only about 30 meters away, but discretion must be used, as Culpepper is on the turbulent Atlantic Ocean side of Barbados. Further, the rocky footing can also be dangerous to walk on. Visitors are well advised to bear in mind that the East Point Lighthouse at Ragged Point was built to save ships from the dangers of this same turbulent coastline and Cobblers Reef.

Eastpoint Lighthouse at Ragged Point. View from the northern end of Cobblers Reef.

Flora and fauna

Culpepper Island is sparsely overgrown and uninhabited. It was claimed that peasants from Barbados once carried sheep to graze on the island, but this claim seems uncredible because neither the small size nor the very sparse vegetation makes the island attractive for this purpose.

An adult pair of Barbados leaf-toed geckos, once presumed extinct, were discovered on the island in 2011.[1]

History

The name of the island goes back to a settler's family name who resided here from about 1650 to 1830. Historically island was attributed to Barbados Saint Philip Parish.

On 12 March 2006 members of 2 of the region's indigenous tribes - the Lokono-Arawaks of Barbados & Guyana, and the Kalinago tribe from Dominica, made a symbolic and ceremonial claim on the very small and totally undeveloped Culpepper island, to highlight the inadequate land space and lack of development infrastructure in most Caribbean Islands where Indigenous peoples still remain in the Caribbean. .[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Once presumed extinct Barbados Leaf-Toed Gecko (Phyllodactylus pulcher) re-discovered in Barbados!". Bajan Reporter. 5 October 2011.
  2. ↑ "The Reclamation of Culpepper Island by the Lokono-Arawak and Karifuna-Carib Nations". Archived from the original on 9 May 2008.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Cobblers Reef.


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