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
Ocean Island Railway number 12678 of 1935) and another one the number 11 (O&K works number 9880 of 1922). Later diesel locomotives were used. Passenger transport was done with a canopee car for the Europeans and an open wagon for the native labourers. Ocean Island Railway The Ocean Island Railway (later Banaba Island Railway) was a long guano mining railway with a gauge of initially , and after 1937 of and finally on Ocean Island (later renamed Banaba Island). The track ran from the northern guano mining areas along the coast through the European Settlement (English:Tabwewa, French: Tapiwa) and the Native Labour Quarters