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4 unusual facts about Anguilla


Alexis A. Julien

In 1860 he went to the guano island of Sombrero as resident chemist, and continued there until 1864, also making studies of its geology and natural history, especially of its birds and land shells.

Dolphin Flag

The Dolphin Flag of Anguilla was adopted on September 29, 1967, after the colony (then part of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla) unilaterally declared independence from Great Britain as the Republic of Anguilla.

Hat Island

Sombrero, Anguilla (also known as "Hat Island"), the northernmost island of the Lesser Antilles

Saint Anne Sandy Point Parish

The finished product will include the La Vallée Golf Course, a marina and port facility for transport to the northern Leeward Islands (Statia, Saba, St. Barths, St. Martin, and Anguilla),Villa developments, and a state of the art sporting facility.


AAAF

Anguilla Amateur Athletic Federation, the governing body for the sport of athletics in Anguilla

Anguilla at the Commonwealth Games

Anguilla which is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean has competed at three Commonwealth Games to date, beginning in 1998.

Anguillan general election, 2010

In 2009, the year before the election, Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming, who was also the leader of the Anguilla United Front (AUF), announced that he would not stand for re-election in the 2010 race.

Bolshayne Fen

Brown trout Salmo trutta fario and Eel Anguilla anguilla are known to occur in Nanny's Water.

Chalumna River

The African longfin eel (Anguilla mossambica) is common in its waters.

Flag of Anguilla

This flag was widely disliked, and was replaced during Anguilla's brief period of independence by the Dolphin Flag, which is still widely seen around the island.

Joseph Oliver Bowers

In recognition and acknowledgement of his work in Ghana, when the diocese of St. John's-Basseterre in the West Indies was created in 1971 - comprising the islands of Antigua-Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands - Bowers was appointed its first bishop on January 16, 1971, becoming the chief pastor in Antigua.

Kieran Kentish

Kieran Kentish (born 29 August 1987) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays college soccer in the United States for John Brown University, as a defender.

Kentish began his club career in Anguilla with the Roaring Lions, before moving to the United States in 2007 to play college soccer for John Brown University.

Paul A. Russo

He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1986 to 1988, under Ronald Reagan.

Ryan Lackey

In 1999 Lackey lived in the San Francisco Bay Area after a period in Anguilla before moving to the unrecognized state of Sealand off the coast of the United Kingdom and establishing HavenCo.

Lackey was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania and has also lived throughout the US and Europe, Anguilla, Sealand, Dubai, and Iraq.


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