Guadeloupe, a French overseas region, is an island group made up of six little inhabited islands including Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and two Îles des Saintes.

A little island now loved by tourists had been a point of tension for centuries before it was swapped by the British for a piece of Africa from Germany. The fight over Heligoland, which sits in a ...