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
Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony penal colony to produce wine. Lamberto Frescobaldi, the current Marchesi de'Frescobaldi and 30th generation of the Tuscan winemaking family, saw potential in an east-facing plot of land on the island's mineral-rich vineyard soils and decided to purchase the land. The Frescobaldis' contracted with the penal colony to work the vineyard, providing training and expertize to the inmates, and paying the inmates a wage in exchange for the rights to the sell the wine produced on the island. In 2013, the penal colony released 225 cases of a white "Denominazione d’Origine Controllata" (DOC) wine labeled as "Frescobaldi per Gorgona" (or simply