Wai'tu kubuli

Waitu Kubuli, later called Dominica, is a steep volcanic island between Guadeloupe and Martinique. Its mountains catch abundant rain, feeding rivers that descend through forest to the sea. Kalinago communities maintained a presence here long after Europeans began settling neighbouring islands, and the rugged interior offered shelter from colonial incursions.

France and Britain contested Dominica during the eighteenth century. Britain gained the island by the Treaty of Paris in 1763, but French forces captured it in 1778 during the American War of Independence. It returned to Britain in 1783. Plantation agriculture and the enslavement of Africans changed the island under British rule, while its mountains also sheltered people who escaped from the plantations. During the upheavals of the French Revolution, Dominica became a refuge for people fleeing conflict in the nearby French islands.

The later city of Roseau lies here.