Mount Obama

Search Antigua Team on Peak of Mount Obama

Mount Obama (known as Boggy Peak until August 4, 2009) is the highest point in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda and on the island of Antigua. It lies in the far southwest of the island at 17°3′0″N 61°51′0″W / 17.05°N 61.85°W / 17.05; -61.85, and rises to a height of 1,327-foot (402-metre) and is named after Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States.

“I shall take immediate measures for Antigua and Barbuda’s highest mountain peak to be dedicated in your honor and renamed ‘Mount Obama,’” Prime Minister W. Baldwin Spencer wrote in a congratulatory note to the victorious U.S. presidential candidate.

The 1,327-foot (402-metre) volcanic peak rises over southwestern Antigua in the former British colony whose 85,000 residents are mostly descended from African slaves brought in to harvest the sugar cane fields in the 1700s. “Mount Obama” currently serves as a transmission site for broadcasting and telecommunications. “Mount Obama” is also a popular hiking spot.