Editing Vieques, Puerto Rico (section)

===European colonial period===

The island also received considerable attention as a possible colony from [[Scottish colonization of the Americas|Scotland]], and after numerous attempts to buy the island proved unsuccessful, the Scottish fleet, en route to [[Darien scheme|Darien]] in 1698, made landfall and took possession of the island in the name of the [[Company of Scotland|Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and The Indies]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hidalgo |first=Dennis R |date=2001 |title=To Get Rich for Our Homeland: The Company of Scotland and the Colonization of the Isthmus of Darien. |url=https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/clahr/vol10/iss3/2 |journal=Colonial Latin American Historical Review |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=311 |via=UNM University Libraries}}</ref> Scottish sovereignty of the island proved short-lived, as a Danish ship arrived shortly afterward and claimed the island. From 1689 to 1693, the island was controlled by [[Brandenburg-Prussia]] as '''Krabbeninsel''' ([[German language|German]] ''crab island''), where the English name Crab Island came from.