Ilet l'enfant perdu au large de Cayenne

The chain includes le Père, La Mère, Les Deux Mamelles (formerly les Deux Filles) and Le Malingre, ending at the Îlet de l'Enfant Perdu.

It is located approximately 11 km off the coast of Cayenne, at the end of the chain of islets stretching from the mouth of the Mahury river, off Rémire.

It is said that a lighthouse once stood there and that convicts were left to tend the flame through the night. Forgotten by the administration, they built a raft to reach the shore, where they were captured and convicted of attempted escape.

Legend tells of a family of islets caught off guard by a tidal wave near the Mahury; the youngest child, carried away by the current, settled on the seabed off Cayenne and remained there, forever bearing the name Enfant Perdu — the Lost Child.