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Devil's Island, French Guyana

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Uploaded by on Jan 2, 2009

The French prison island made famous in the movie Papillon.

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  • i was there in 2010

  • BS It's easy to get on the island. There isn't much there though.

  • There is no access for tourists to Devil´s Island due to the strong current, but you can visit the other two islands, Royale and St. Joseph, which also are much more interesting.

  • Did the government prevent you from going on the island? If so, just because it was too dangerous? Umm, what is there to hide?

  • Why didn't you say why you couldn't get there?  A journalist managed to get on it (google GUARDIAN DEVILS ISLAND ERWIN) but it took a lot of requests before a fisherman agreed only to 30mins there.

  • euj'me a francaise guyane lingerna meu ou dakarna vea jou beau..... ilha de denils sow negue.

  • Dangerous? The currents surrounding it can be, but that's probably it. The reason you can't go on it now is because it's a government installation— it's a missile tracking station. It tracks the EU's Ariane rocket, which is launched from the Kourou naval base and lofts satellites into orbit. Kourou, BTW, was the site of a feared labor camp in the colonial days.

  • i got on it so there and no prison was closed about 80 years ago

  • Is it still a French Prison?

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