Ilhas Cagarras

The Cagarras Islands ( in Portuguese Ilhas Cagarras ) are an archipelago of seven uninhabited islands and rocks ( Laje as Cagarra, Cagarra, filhote because Cagarra, Matias, Praça Onze, Comprida and Palmas) on the southern coast of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, outside the bay of Guanabara.

History

About the origin of the name there is no consensus. The most common is the opinion that the name of the large amount of feces is due to leave the resident seabirds on the islands. Due to the rich calcium-rich faeces the islands appear white. An alternative theory has the name of the islands to the Portuguese Cagarra called shearwaters of the genus Calonectris back that call it home while in Madeira and the Azores, but does not let the Cagarras Islands find.

1730 the main island Cagarra appears on a chart with the name Ilha franzosisierten Cagade. On another map from 1767 the same island is called by its Portuguese name Ilha Cagarra.