Looe Island

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  juanitojuanito

  Until recently it was owned (and inhabited) by two sisters, Babs and Evelyn Atkins, who have made a gift of the island to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust in perpetuity. Evelyn Atkins wrote two books — We Bought An Island (1976) and its sequel Tales From Our Cornish Island (1986) — about the purchase of the island and what it is like to live there. She died in 1997 at the age of 87 but her sister Babs continued to live on the island until her death in 2004, at the age of 86, leaving the island to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust which will preserve it as a nature reserve. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looe_Island

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