Ambergris Cay is the
largest of Belize's more than 200 off-shore islands. The island
is a 25 mile long, flat, coral sand island, protected on the
east by a living reef that extends 185 miles down the coast of
Belize. Ambergris is the southern most extension of the Yucatan
Peninsula, a unique Peninsula of porous limestone. European
contact with Ambergris Cay settlers is documented from 1508. At
that time, the area was populated by the Maya.
