They donated it to the Bahamian government in exchange for land on the island's east side.
Even today more than 80 per cent of arable land on the island is covered by cane fields.
Sark Estate Management has admitted to a "mistake" in the timing of land clearance on the island's west coast.
Two years later Perrine Burnod of CIRAD, a French research organisation, found that the number of land deals on the island had fallen by two-thirds.
The government owns all the land on Hong Kong island (except the plot occupied by the Anglican cathedral).
On March 3rd the Hong Kong government announced that it was in negotiations with Disney to create the company's fifth theme park, on reclaimed land on Lantau Island, the home of Hong Kong's new airport and just a short subway ride from Hong Kong island itself.
Earlier in the day, the billionaire Barclay brothers, who own neighbouring Brecqhou and land on Sark, began shutting down their businesses on the island, which include hotels, restaurants and some shops.
He said discussions with landowners and their tenants would be held to work on establishing a land use policy for the island.
She helped correct a misunderstanding about the first immigrant to land on Ellis Island, an Irish woman named Annie Moore who arrived in 1892.
The storm destroyed sandy stretches of land along the Jersey shore and gave many on Staten Island their own Katrina moment, with over 100 people confirmed dead (over 1, 000 people died in Hurricane Katrina in 2005) and roughly one million people still without power in the regions of southern Manhattan, the Island and parts of New Jersey.
Hong Kong Disneyland, as it will be known, is to be built on 126 hectares of reclaimed land at Penny's Bay, a nondescript inlet on Lantau Island, close to the new Chek Lap Kok airport.
Authorities searched the prison complex on Alcatraz Island, the 10-mile wide bay, and the surrounding land, to no avail.
Consideration is being given to freeing up more development land in the south of the island and tightening up on means-testing for council house tenants.
His anti-golf course campaign has been bad news for Fil-Estate Land, the developer of a 117-hectare course on the pristine island resort of Boracay.
Later, you'll land the Bond girl when you perfectly execute your included picnic on Monkey Island.
Until a few years ago, it used to be dumped in landfills, but it is tricky to find much space on an island where more than 70% of the land is covered by mountains.
Heron Island, for example, is a speck of land on the Barrier Reef inhabited mostly by birds.
While it doesn't affect birds that feed at sea, which is the vast majority of birds around the island, it could harm those that feed on land, such as ducks, gulls and skuas.
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On August 9th, in the toughest move yet against a private developer, the government seized back a piece of land which contains an underground columbarium, on Lantau island.
Capt Schettino steered the vessel closer to land to where it now lies on its side just metres off Giglio island.
In British Columbia, that matters: there, apart from a few small areas (such as on Vancouver Island), natives never ceded their land by treaty and claim that nearly all the province is still theirs.
Even if you think the land was a bargain, bear in mind that it's pricier to build on an island, since materials, equipment and workers need to be shipped in, and those costs rise with distance from the mainland.
On the island, he pairs magnificent modern architecture, built on extra-large tracts of land, with a small, discerning clientele a formula that, at first, he wasn't sure would work, but has weathered the boom and recent bust of high-density vacation housing on more tourist-friendly islands.
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