If the world were flat, the end of the earth would undoubtedly be French Guiana. A remote, jungle-shrouded patch on the northeast shoulder of South America, one-sixth the size of metropolitan France ...

CONDEMNED TO DEVIL’S ISLAND—Blair Niles—Harcourt Brace ($3.00). The Indictment. Every year France sends a dismal shipload of some 700 convicts to her penal colony in French Guiana —north of Brazil, ...

Looming ominously off the coast of French Guiana in South America, a mere 8.5 miles or 13.76 kilometers away, stands Devil’s Island, or Île Du Diable, as it's known in French. The island's memorable ...

Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny castaway islands rise away from the coast of French Guyana ...