Îlet à Cabrit




Îlet à Cabrit is an island in the Îles des Saintes archipelago, in the Lesser Antilles. It belongs to the commune of Terre-de-Haut into the French department of Guadeloupe.GeographyÎlet to Cabrit is located, at 1km at the northwest of Terre-de-Haut Island, closing partially the Bay of les Saintes.The island is approximately 1.2km from east to west and 750m from north to south. Its highest mount up to 90m, Morne Joséphine hill. it contains three headlands, Pointe à Cabrit on the West, Pointe Sable in the South and Pointe Bombarde in the East, which frame three coves: Anse sous le vent in the southwest, Anse du Bananier in the southeast and Anse du Petit Etang in the North.By its localization, Îlet à Cabrit creates two passages into the Bay of les Saintes, la Baleine passage to the East and Pain de Sucre passage in the South, which constitute both access roads to the harbours of Mouillage and Fond-du-Curé.HistoryThe strategic position of Petite Martinique always served of sentinel's place. In 1777, France built, at the top of Morne de la Reine hill, a fortification named Fort de la Reine renamed later Fort Joséphine. It formed then a defensive system with the Fort Napoléon and the numerous battery of the archipelago.

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