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Encyclopedia Britannica



BAY ISLANDS (IsLAS DE LA BAHIA)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 556 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BAY ISLANDS (IsLAS DE LA BAHIA) , a small archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, off the
coast
  of
Honduras
 , of which country it forms an administrative
district
 . Pop. (1905) about 3000, including 500 Indians. The archipelago consists of Roatan or Ruatan, Guanaja or Bonacca, Utilla, Barbareta,
Helena
 , Morat, the Puercos or Hog Islands, and many cays or islets. The Bay Islands have a good soil, a fine climate and an advantageous position. Roatan, the largest, is about 30 M.
long
  by, 9 m. broad, with mountains rising to the height of 900 ft., covered with valuable woods and abounding with deer and wild hogs. Its
chief
  towns are Coxen Hole and Puerto Real. Its
trade
  is chiefly with New Orleans in plantains, cocoa-nuts, pineapples and other fruit. Guanaja is 9 M.
long
  by 5 m. broad; it lies 15 M. E.N.E. of Roatan. Wild hogs abound in its thickly-wooded limestone hills. The other islands are comparatively small, and may, in some cases, be regarded as detached parts of Roatan, with which they are connected by reefs. Guanaja was discovered in 1502 by
Columbus
 , but the islands were not colonized until the 17th
century
 , when they were occupied by British logwood cutters from Belize, and pearlers from the Mosquito
Coast
 . Forts were built on Roatan in 1742, but abandoned in 1749. In 1852 the islands were annexed by
Great
  Britain. In 1859 they were ceded to
Honduras
 .


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