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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">W1UE and N2WQ will be
active from Roatan Island (IOTA NA-057) 22-28 May 2014 as<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>HR9/W1UE<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG>and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>HR9/N2WQ<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG><BR>They will be active
in CQ WW WPX CW Contest as HR9/W1UE unless they get shorter call<BR>QSL
via home calls</SPAN></SPAN><BR><IMG style="WIDTH: 900px; HEIGHT: 506px"
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<P><B>Roatán</B>, located between the islands of Útila and Guanaja, is the
largest of Honduras' Bay Islands.</P>
<P>The island was formerly known as<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><B>Ruatan</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><B>Rattan</B>. It is
approximately 77 kilometres (48 mi) long, and less than 8 kilometres
(5.0 mi) across at its widest point. The island consists of two
municipalities (out of a total of four in the department):</P>
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<LI>José Santos Guardiola in the east (named for the former president of
Honduras) and</LI>
<LI>Roatán (also including the Cayos Cochinos) further south in the
west.</LI></UL>
<P>The most populous town of the island is Coxen Hole, capital of Roatán
municipality, located in the southwest. Other important towns include
French Harbour, West End, Sandy Bay and Oak Ridge (the capital of José
Santos Guardiola municipality).</P>
<P>The easternmost quarter of the island is separated by a channel through
the mangroves that is 15 meters wide on average. This section is called
Helene, or<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Santa
Elena</I><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>in Spanish.
Satellite islands at the eastern end are Morat, Barbareta, and Pigeon Cay.
Further west between French Harbour and Coxen Hole is Stamp Cay and
Barefoot Cay.<BR><BR> </P>
<P>The pre-Columbian indigenous peoples of the Bay Islands are believed to
have been related to either the Paya, the Maya, the Lenca or the Jicaque,
which were the cultures present on the mainland. Christopher Columbus on
his fourth voyage (1502–1504) came to the islands as he visited the
neighboring Bay Island of Guanaja. Soon after the Spanish began raiding
the islands for slave labor. More devastating for Native American
communities was exposure to Eurasian infectious diseases to which they had
no immunity, such as smallpox and measles. No indigenous people survived
the consequent epidemics.</P>
<P>Throughout European colonial times, the Bay of Honduras attracted an
array of individual settlers, pirates, traders and military forces.
Various economic activities were engaged in and political struggles played
out between the European powers, chiefly Britain and Spain. Roatán and the
other islands were used as frequent resting points for sea travelers. On
several occasions, they were subject to military occupation. In contesting
with the Spanish for colonization of the Caribbean, the English occupied
the Bay Islands on and off between 1550 and 1700. During this time,
buccaneers found the vacated, mostly unprotected islands a haven for safe
harbor and transport. English, French and Dutch pirates established
settlements on the islands. They frequently raided Spanish cargo vessels
carrying gold and other treasures from the New World to Spain.<BR><A
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