Devil's Island
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Devil's Island
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Devil or devil and island
* (Bermuda): Calque from Portuguese. From the calls of the cahow (“Bermuda petrel”), mistaken for calls of ghosts and spirits
* (French Guiana): Calque of French Île du Diable From the notorious conditions on the penal exile island
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Former name of Bermuda: an archipelago of North America in the Atlantic.
Similar: Isle of Devils, Isles of Devils, Devil's Islands
- A former settlement, a penal colony in Devil's Island, Salvation Islands, Kourou, French Guyana, South America in the Caribean.
- An island of the Salvation Islands, Caribbean, Atlantic.
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name French Guiana
| Français | Île du Diable |
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