Devil's Island (Kourou) Devil's Island (Kourou) Devil's Island (French: Île du Diable) is the third-largest island of the Salvation's Islands, an island group in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately 14 km (9 mi) off the coast of French Guiana in South America just north of the town of Kourou. It has an area of 14 ha (34.6 acres). The island was a part of a controversial French penal colony located in French Guiana for 101 years, from 1852 to 1953. Although it was the smallest part of the penal colony, it is notorious for being used for internal exile of French
Pebble Island Settlement established in 1846 by an Englishman called John Henry Dean, whose family company still runs the island. During the Falklands War, 300 Argentine personnel were stationed there as part of an airbase, but the base was effectively put out of action by a British raid on 14–15 May 1982. More recently, Pebble Island Settlement became one of the first in the Falkland Islands to use wind turbines to generate most of its electricity. Pebble Island Settlement Pebble Island Settlement (Spanish/Argentine name: "Puerto Calderón") is on Pebble Island in the northwest Falkland Islands, United Kingdom. It is the headquarters of the