Ernst Thälmann Island, Parque Nacional Ciénaga de Zapata

The Ernst Thälmann Island is a 15 km long and 500 m wide Cuban island in the Gulf of Cazones that is named after Ernst Thälmann, a German communist politician. During a 1970s state visit to the German Democratic Republic, Fidel Castro made a promise that Cuba would donate an island to the East German government, and Cayo Blanco del Sur was renamed in a ceremony during a state visit by Erich Honecker. After the reunification of Germany, a German newspaper tried to visit the island and was told this transfer had only been "symbolic". ()