[2] Discovered by Spanish navigators during the fifteenth century, this island of 1,35 km² has a long and interesting history.

Island highest point Gun Hill, almost 126 meters above sea level, served as an observation station for soldiers between 1772–1797.

Due to starvation, disease, and sickness from exposure to the elements on the undeveloped island, more than half of the Garifuna people died on Baliceaux.

[3] Their descendants live today as the Garifuna people in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States.

[4][5] The privately-owned was offered for sale in 2023,[6] with an asking price of US$30m; the prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines intended in 2025 to acquire the island for the nation.