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Colorful wooden houses on stilts line the waterfront at Oak Ridge, Roatan Island, Honduras, with a green, tree-covered hill rising behind them. Bay Islands, Honduras
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Colorful wooden houses on stilts line the waterfront at Oak Ridge, Roatan Island, Honduras, with a green, tree-covered hill rising behind them.
Roatán island: Oak Ridge Houses along the coast at Oak Ridge, Roatán island, Honduras.

Bay Islands

islands, Honduras
Also known as: Islas de la Bahía
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Bay Islands, group of small islands of northern Honduras. The main islands are Utila, Roatán, and Guanaja. They have an area of 101 square miles (261 square km) and lie about 35 miles (56 km) offshore in the Caribbean Sea. The main islands were first sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1502 and were settled in 1642 by English buccaneers. Between 1650 and 1850 Spain, Honduras, and England intermittently contested the islands, and Carib peoples from...

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