Caribbean

36 records across the Greater and Lesser Antilles. The region that answers this collection's question by title rather than by acreage, and answers it in more ways than anywhere else.

Jumby Bay's three hundred acres belong to fifty-six households, each holding one equal share in the island company; the hotel operates inside it as a tenant among owners. Petit St. Vincent's hundred and fifteen acres carry twenty-two cottages and a flag system that lets a guest reserve a beach for the day. Necker was sold in 1978 on the condition that a resort be built within four years, and has been destroyed and rebuilt twice since. GoldenEye grew from fifteen acres bought for a writer's house into fifty-two across two owners and seventy years.

Acreage here is often less informative than it looks. Cap Juluca's hundred and seventy-nine acres are published as land and inland waters together, and a real share of them is salt pond. Little Dix Bay's five hundred acres sit on an inhabited island with a town, so the estate is large and the island is shared.

What the region does not offer is a private beach in the legal sense. Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and much of the chain hold their shores in common, and the register says so rather than repeating the operators.