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Johnny Depp's Heath beach

Jun 17, 2009, 9:35 GMT

Johnny Depp. The \'Pirates of the Caribbean\' actor owns a private island - called Little Hall\'s Pond Cay - in the Bahamas and has paid tribute to the late Hollywood star by naming a stretch of sand Heath\'s Place. .EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON

Johnny Depp. The \'Pirates of the Caribbean\' actor owns a private island - called Little Hall\'s Pond Cay - in the Bahamas and has paid tribute to the late Hollywood star by naming a stretch of sand Heath\'s Place. .EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON

Johnny Depp has named a beach after Heath Ledger.

The 'Pirates of the Caribbean' actor owns a private island - called Little Hall's Pond Cay - in the Bahamas and has paid tribute to the late Hollywood star by naming a stretch of sand Heath's Place.

The 'Dark Knight' actor died aged just 28 of an accidental prescription drugs overdose in January 2008.

Depp was a close friend of Ledger's and stepped in to help finish his final movie 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus', after Ledger died part-way through filming.

Depp has also named a beach on the 45-acre idyllic island after his partner Vanessa Paradis and their two children - 10-year-old daughter Lily-Rose and son Jack, seven.

The 46-year-old star recently revealed he escapes to the Bahamas to feed sharks when the pressures of fame are getting too much.

Depp said: "Whenever I was getting frustrated about being 'novelty boy' and making movies, I told myself, 'Calm down.' I can come down here and disappear. I spent the Christmas season here with Vanessa and the kids. You can feed hot dogs to the nurse sharks in the Exumas (the Bahamas Out Islands) - but it's best to not swim when doing it!"



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