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Clipperton Island has an amazingly crazy story involving residents dying from illnesses, starvation and possible murders when they were forgotten after being sent there by the mexican government to poblate the island, where there´s no food at all. When the mexican revolution started, ships that provided food and survival things stopped going to the island, so the newly clippertonians were on their own. Stories told around mexico say that the last surviving man (after possibly murdering the others for food) used to live in the Lighthouse alone, but had all the remaining women working for him and living outside in the island. Until one day the women got all together with valor and managed to kill him and scape the island in an USA's ship that was crossing by. Nobody knows if this is a real or fictional stroy, but a certain thing is that the people sent to populate the island at the beginning of the past century were never seen again. Well, I hope you all can investigate and get more information 'cause this is a very amazing story. I think there´s a new movie about this island and its bizarre legend coming soon, it´s worth the while checking it up, I just hope GE puts some new satellite photos soon with more resolution from Clipperton Island. Some Official History and Information About Clipperton Island: Clipperton Island is a barren, ring-shaped coral atoll located 760 miles south-southwest of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and 1600 miles west of Nicaragua. The only atoll in the East Pacific, it completely surrounds its stagnant freshwater lagoon and serves as home for thousands of sea birds and millions of land crabs. Clippertons total area is about 7 square kilometers. Most of the island is no higher than 6 feet, except for Clipperton Rock, a volcanic rock formation which reaches a peak height of 69 feet. Clipperton Island was originally discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, but was later named after John Clipperton, an English pirate who led a mutiny against William Dampier in 1704. It has been rumored that Clipperton hid some treasures on the atoll. In 1708, two French ships 'Princess' and 'Découverte' reached the island and named it 'Ile de la Possession', and annexed it for France. The first scientific expedition took place in 1725 by Frenchman M.Bocage, who lived on the island for several months. Over one hundred years later, Clipperton was found again by an American guano mining company. The treaty of Guano was made in 1856, and the United States had rights for guano mining on Clipperton. In 1857, the French declared (under heavy American) protest that Clipperton was a part of Tahiti. But after several years of no permanent settlement on the island, Mexico occupied the island in 1897 and established a military outpost on the island. In 1906, the British 'Pacific Island Company' annexed the island, and built a settlement together with the Mexican government in order to mine guano. In that year, a lighthouse was also erected. In 1914, about 100 people, mixed men and women, lived on the island. Every two months, a ship from Acapulco went to the island to bring food. However, with the start of the Mexican civil war, the atoll was no longer reachable by ship, and the people on the island were on their own. By 1915, most of the inhabitants had died, and the last settlers wanted to leave on the American war ship 'Lexington' which had reached the atoll in late 1915. However, the Mexican military Governor declared that evacuation was not necessary. By 1917, most of the men had died and only the lighthouse keeper was living along with 15 women on the island. In July 1917, three women were the only ones alive and were picked up by the American ship 'Yorktown'. Ownership of Clipperton was then disputed between France and Mexico. France approached the Vatican for a decision on who owned the lonely atoll, far offshore. In 1930, the Vatican gave the rights to the King of Italy, Vikor Emanuel II, who declared one year later that Clipperton was a part of France. When Clipperton was finally declared as a French possession, the lighthouse was rebuilt and the French settled a military outpost on the island. The outpost only remained for there seven years and then the French abandoned it. In the late 1930's, Clipperton was visited twice by President Franklin D. Roosevelt who wanted it to become an American possession for use as a trans-pacific air base, and in 1944 he ordered the navy to occupy the island in one of the most secret US operations of WW II. After the war it was abandoned, and has since only been visited by the French Navy and an occasional scientific or amateur radio expedition. More Info and photos at: http://www.qsl.net/clipperton2000/history.html