The tourist board’s website refers to May 30 as “the spark that ignited the island’s freedom,” rather ironic as the refusal of the island to join a dependency with St. Kitts and Nevis may have led to greater autonomy at the time, but ended with the island remaining a British crown colony to this day while St. Kitts and Nevis became a sovereign nation in 1983. WHAT TERRITORY, with a name meaning “eel,” celebrates May 30 as a national holiday anyway?
ANGUILLA