Overlapping on some of the hottest contested area in the ‘states, St. Phillips Island has been one part island oasis to two parts headache for Ted Turner. Parts of it and the nearby St. Helena Island are said to be owned by the Gullah people, slave descendents who banded together to buy the property in the ‘20’s and who contested Turner’s ownership of the properties. Eventually Ted came to an agreement with the Gullah descendents, and he still owns the land, though lets almost no one aside from himself and the Gullah on it.