| Guiana Island | |||||||||
| Location: | Caribbean Sea | ||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Antigua and Barbuda#Lesser Antilles#Caribbean | ||||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | top | ||||||||
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 17.1225°N -61.7297°W | ||||||||
| Archipelago: | Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles | ||||||||
| Timezone1: | AST | ||||||||
| Utc Offset1: | -4 | ||||||||
| Additional Info: | Private island
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Guiana Island (or Guana Island) is an island off the northeast coast of Antigua, between the Parham Peninsula and Crump Island. It forms the southern coast of the North Sound, and is the fourth largest island of Antigua and Barbuda.
Island is a refuge for the Fallow Deer, Antigua's national animal.
The island used to be owned by Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud in the United States. The Antiguan government has now sold the island and abutting mainland sites in a multimillion-dollar investment to Chinese developers termed the YIDA Project as a semi-autonomous Special Economic Zone.[1] [2]