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Looe Island ((コーンウォール語:Enys Lann-Managh), meaning ''island of the monk's enclosure''), also known as St George's Island, and historically St Michael's Island is a small island a mile from the mainland town of Looe in Cornwall, England. According to local legend, Joseph of Arimathea landed here with the child Christ.〔Clensy, David (2006), Island Life: A History of Looe Island - pp. 15, Lulu.com, ISBN 9781411689176〕 Some scholars, including Glyn Lewis, suggest the island could be as Ictis, the location described by Diodorus Siculus as a centre for the tin trade in pre-Roman Britain. The island is now owned and managed by the (Cornwall Wildlife Trust ) charity where (access ) is carefully managed for the benefit of wildlife and landing is only possible via the Cornwall Wildlife Trust authorized boatman. The waters around the island are a marine nature reserve〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Looe Island Nature Reserve )〕 and form part of the Looe Voluntary Marine Conservation Area 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Looe Voluntary Marine Conservation Area )〕 (VMCA). First established in 1995, the Looe VCMA covers nearly 5 km of coastline〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Looe VMCA map )〕 and aims to protect the coastal and marine wildlife around Looe. ==History== People have been living on Looe Island since the Iron Age. Evidence of early habitation includes pieces of Roman amphorae as well as stone boat anchors and Roman coins.〔http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2009/looe/index.html ''Time Team'' Site report〕 In the Dark Ages, the island was used a seat of early Christian settlement. The child Jesus was believed to have visited the Island with his uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, who traded with the Cornish tin traders. Therefore, Looe Island became a place of pilgrimage for early Christians and a small thatched roofed chapel was built there during this time. In the later Medieval period, the island came under the control of Glastonbury Abbey. Lammana Priory was a priory on the mainland directly aligned to a small chapel on the Island consisting of two Benedictine monks until 1289 when the property was sold to a local landowner. The priory was replaced by a chapel served by a secular priest〔Orme, Nicholas (2007) ''Cornwall and the Cross''. Chichester: Phillimore; pp. 30–31, 35, 38〕 until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 when it became property of the Crown. From the 13th to the 16th centuries the island was known as St Michael's Island. After 1584 it became known as St George's Island.〔Weatherhill, Craig, Place Names in Cornwall and Scilly, Wessex Books, 2005〕 Through the 17th and 18th centuries the island was a popular haunt for smugglers avoiding the British government's revenue cutters out of Plymouth and Falmouth. The Old Guildhall Museum in Looe hold information and research about the smuggling families of Looe Island and information is also available the more recent publications about the island. In the 20th century, Looe island was owned (and inhabited) by two sisters, Babs and Evelyn Atkins, who wrote two books: ''We Bought An Island'' (1976, ISBN 0-245-52940-3) and its sequel ''Tales From Our Cornish Island'' (1986, ISBN 0-245-54265-5). They chronicle the purchase of the island and what it was like to live there. Evelyn died in 1997 at the age of 87; Babs continued to live on the island until her death in 2004, at the age of 86. On her death, the island was bequeathed to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust; it will be preserved as a nature reserve in perpetuity. The adjoining islet, formerly known as Little Island, now renamed Trelawny Island and connected by a small bridge, was bequeathed by Babs back to the Trelawny family, who had owned Looe Island from 1743 to 1921.〔''Looe Island Then And Now'' Clarke, Carolyn United pc Verlag ISBN 3710310466 p12〕 The full history of the island is explained at length in ''Island Life: A History of Looe Island'', published in 2006, and the role of the island today is briefly described in ''Looe Island Then and Now'' published in 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Looe Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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