Boggy Peak

Where is Boggy Peak?

Boggy Peak is part of the Shekerley Mountains, Antigua.

You will find it in: Antigua and Barbuda.

Summit: 17.045° N, 61.861° W

The story behind it

Boggy Peak belongs to the Shekerley Mountains, a row of old volcanic hills that were pushed up long before the flat, sandy part of Antigua took shape. The rock here is hard and dark, and under the trees it feels cooler and damper than anywhere else on the island, which is how the hill probably earned its wet-sounding name. A narrow road climbs to the antennas on the summit, so a walk up takes a morning rather than a whole day, and the reward is a view over bays, reefs and sugar-cane fields. Hummingbirds buzz around the flowers, land crabs cross the track after rain, and mango and tamarind trees grow in the gardens on the lower slopes. Since 2009 the hill also carries the official name Mount Obama, and both names are used on the island.

Find it on the globe

Boggy Peak is there as a small peak with its own shape — a horn, a ridge, a volcano — standing on the surface. From far away the planet is only a blue ball; detail arrives as you zoom in, and this one appears once you are close enough. Open it on the globe.

It sits at its real coordinates, not near them — the same numbers listed in the facts above. Switch off the layer for this kind of place and it disappears again; the buttons for that are down the right-hand edge.