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Little Corn Island is accessible by fast boats, usually three or four times per day depending on weather from Big Corn Island, and by a small cargo ship from the port at Southwest Bay on Big Corn Island . Little Corn Island has no motor vehicles. Due to its small size, all transport on the island is done on foot.The Corn Islands, along with the eastern half of present-day Nicaragua, were a British protectorate from 1655 until 1860, a period when the region was called the Mosquito Coast. At one time, the islands were frequented by Caribbean pirates. The Nicaraguan government annexed the region in 1894.