Providence Island Company Providence Island Company The Providence Company or Providence Island Company was an English chartered company founded in 1629 by a group of Puritans including Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick in order to establish the Providence Island colony on Providence Island and Mosquito Coast of what became Nicaragua. Providence Island was discovered during 1629 by Daniel Elfrith. Elfrith passed its location to Philip Bell who was governor of the Somers Islands; Bell mentioned it to Nathaniel Rich. Rich then involved the Earl of Warwick, his family connection, who called a meeting for 10 November 1629, at Brooke House in Holborn,
Gambier Islands Group Marine Park Gambier Islands Group Marine Park Gambier Islands Group Marine Park is a marine protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in state coastal waters around the Gambier Islands at the mouth of Spencer Gulf. The marine park was established on 29 January 2009 by proclamation under the "Marine Parks Act 2007". The Gambier Islands Group Marine Park consists of the waters around all parts of the island group to a distance of from ‘median high water’ and overlaps both the crown land on the south-west side of Wedge Island and the Gambier Islands Conservation Park which includes