Talk:Redonda

should merge
Should merge with "Kings of Redonda". 16:18, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Perhaps "Kings of Redonda" should be merged here, as Redonda should retain its own article. --Golbez 21:47, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Better to merge the whole lot into Antigua and Barbuda. It doesn't rate more than a footnote, and the pretenders to the throne less than that.  82.152.46.201 22:46, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Merge Proposal
I wish to merge this article into Kingdom of Redonda. Both articles are too small to stand alone, and it makes more sense to merge the island into the kingdom than the kingdom into the island since the kingdom is the reason that it is well known. Is this acceptable? Syrae Faileas 18:02, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm... looks like the German version of this page has a lot more information about Redonda as an island and its history. I may want to merge the Kingdom into this article instead.  Either way, there's gonna be a merge and redirect.  I'm not going to do anything for at least a week to allow for discussion. Syrae Faileas - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 23:15, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I've done a little reading on this now, and it seems that the island of Redonda and the Kingdom of Redonda are no longer related. They should definitely not be merged. If any merging is to be done, I'd suggest Redonda be merged into Antigua and Barbuda. --YuvalOren 12:08, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Rotten Parish?
How can it be a parish if it unenhabitted?
 * It's a dependency, not a parish. It's an odd little island with an odd history. --YuvalOren 12:12, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Conflicting Information on the area of the island
CIA World Factbook says Redonda is 1.6 sq. km. while the US Library of Congress Country Studies say 2.6 sq. km. --YuvalOren 12:12, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I suspect this is because it is extremely difficult to measure the area of an island that protrudes so extremely steeply from the sea, going from 0 feet to nearly 1,000 feet in less than half a mile. How do you calculate the actual area? Do you include the faces of the slopes that are so steep that they are nearly but not quite sheer cliff? Or do you only include the somewhat flatter areas on top of the island? See what I mean? Invertzoo (talk)

Removed tacked-on hoax info about the "king" debate
I removed this, which was tacked on to the reference section: "The claim by William Timlin is spurious and is enertegically denied by the Citizens of Redonda. The current holder of the title is William Gates - fifth King of Redonda  who received by Deed of Irrevocable Covenant October 26th 1989. He has since proclaimed the Kingdom an Empire. Transfer is in perpetuity. The Title has now become hereditary and will pass to his children."

Note that:

1. This article is about the island, not about the micronation. For information on the micronation of Redonda, please see Kingdom of Redonda

2. Wikipedia can have, and does have, articles about various notable tall tales and hoaxes which have genuine encyclopedic value, such as for example, the Piltdown Man, but Wikipedia is emphatically not an arena where hoax information can be presented as if it was factual. Please see WP:HOAX

Thanks. Invertzoo (talk) 16:04, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Goat and rat removal 2010s
Let us add it to Fauna. Zezen (talk) 16:52, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * Antigua and Barbuda location map Topographic.png

im confused
how come the island was left unhabitable in 1929 because of a hurricane but when you go to the 1929 Atlantic hurricane season page and look at the map. there isnt a storm close to the island????? 201.204.89.42 (talk) 17:17, 10 September 2023 (UTC)