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Together with Ille de la Gonave, La Tortue belongs to Haiti's main offshore territories.
 
Together with Ille de la Gonave, La Tortue belongs to Haiti's main offshore territories.
  
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Revision as of 04:02, 20 October 2005

Ile de la Tortue - a.k.a. La Tortue (transl.Turtle Island) is located north 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 fled to the island to escape the conflict and a yellow fever epidemic.

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