Île Tintamarre is a small island with an area of approximately 0.8 square kilometres, located at about 3km from the Northernest coast of the island of Saint Martin, now uninhabited. In the 18th century, after the French had retrieved it from the English, who had held it for some 40 years, it had approximately 150 inhabitants. It was owned by a succession of persons from Saint Christopher, who resisted French efforts to take possession of the island.
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