Île de la Tortue

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Ile de la Tortue - also La Tortue (transl. Turtle Island) is located nort of Port de Paix and belongs to Haiti. Pirates active in the Caribbean sea started using the island as a base around 1600. In 1802, two years before the final victory of the Haitian revolution, many French flee to the island to escape the conflict and a yellow fever epidemic.

Together with Ille de la Gonave, La Tortue belongs to Haitii's main offshore territories.