Little Cayman

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Little Cayman is the smallest of the Cayman Islands. 115 of the 39 410 inhabitants of the Cayman Islands to live on this island (as of 1999), but most do not come from the Cayman Islands. The covered more than 40 percent of wetlands island is still relatively undeveloped. The island is about 16 kilometers long and 1.5 kilometers wide.

In the southwest of Little Cayman there is an airfield with an unpaved runway. The inhabitants are dependent on tourism and mostly work in one of the resorts. There are also on the island of the Little Cayman Museum and the Booby Pond Nature Reserve, a protected area where there are 20,000 red-footed boobies and frigate birds 350. Also, there are some iguanas on the island, for even their own road signs were erected, and a variety of birds.

The island was discovered as well as Cayman Brac in 1503 by Christopher Columbus. The first settlements in the Cayman Islands were built by fishermen and turtles scavengers in 1600 on Little Cayman, the island was in 1671, however, only repopulated since the attack of a Spanish pirate from 1833, when the town of Blossom Village was built. In 1900 there was a population of several hundred people who export goods were phosphate ores, Ropes and coconuts. As a hurricane wreaked great destruction in 1932, many left the island again.

The phosphate mines are not longer in use, but can still be visited.