Virgin Islands British U.s United States Americas Danish The Eng; history of the british virgin islandsThis is the history of the british See also the history of the U. virgin islands, history of presentday http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Virgin:Islands.htm
Extractions: var GLB_RIS='http://www.economicexpert.com';var GLB_RIR='/cincshared/external';var GLB_MMS='http://www.economicexpert.com';var GLB_MIR='/site/image';GLB_MML='/'; document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); A1('s',':','html'); Non User A B C ... The Virgin Islands are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea . The islands are divided into two parts, one of which ( British Virgin Islands ) is a dependent territory of the United Kingdom and the other ( U.S. Virgin Islands ) is a dependent territory of the United States Christopher Columbus named the islands " St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins ". We now call them just the Virgin Islands. They were inhabited by Carib Indians, whom Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor wiped out when he took over the islands in for the Holy Roman Empire The islands were later peopled by Africans who were enslaved on sugar plantations. The sugar plantations are now gone, but the descendents of the slaves are still there, sharing a common West Indian culture with Jamaica and the other English-speaking islands of the Caribbean. Tourism is now the main industry.
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Extractions: Caribbean Islands Jamaica Jamaican Island History SPANISH GOVERNMENT BRITISH COMMONWEALTH PROFILE BEFORE THE SPANIARDS occupied Jamaica in the early sixteenth century, the island was inhabited by the Arawak Indians, who called it Xaymaca, meaning "land of wood and springs." Lying on the trade routes between the Old and New Worlds, Jamaica served variously for centuries as a way station for Spanish galleons, a market for slaves and goods from many countries, and a prize for the Spaniards, the British, buccaneers, and entrepreneurs. By far the largest of the English-speaking islands in size and population, independent Jamaica has played a leading role within the Commonwealth Caribbean and has been active in international organizations. Jamaica's story is one of independence that began in the seventeenth century with the Maroons, runaway slaves who resisted the British colonizers by carrying out hit-and-run attacks from the interior. Their 7,000 descendants in the Cockpit Country have symbolized the fervent, sometimes belligerent, love of freedom that is ingrained in the Jamaican people as a result of both their British tutelage and their history of slavery. Independence came quietly, however, without a revolutionary struggle, apparently reflecting the lasting imprint of the British parliamentary legacy on Jamaican society. Despite its people's respect for the rule of law and the British Westminster system of government
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Extractions: The British Virgin Islands are comprised of 36 islands in the Caribbean Sea (16 inhabited); located about 60 miles east of Puerto Rico, north of the Leeward Islands, and adjacent to the U.S. Virgin Islands. The principle islands are: Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke . Road Town, Tortola, is the capital.
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Extractions: A compact guide illustrating all the fishes, corals, invertebrates and plants you are most likely to encounter in less than 15 feet of water in the Caribbean. Humann's photographs are among the best we've seen for identification and its handy size makes it perfect to take along in the boat or to the beach. The Nature of the Islands, Plants and Animals of the Eastern Caribbean
Extractions: Product Type: Country Report Published Date: February 2005 Published By: ICON Group International Page Count: Order Code: Download Now! - PDF Format (Corporate License) $95 British Virgin Islands Note: If you don't see the format or license type you require, please contact a customer service representative for assistance. DESCRIPTION TABLE OF CONTENTS SEARCH INSIDE This study covers the outlook products in British Virgin Islands. For the year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the British Virgin Islands (in millions of U.S. dollars). Comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge British Virgin Islands vis-à-vis regional and global totals. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.
Concierge.com: British Virgin Islands: Same Only Different Similarities among the islands are also attributable to the history of the region . Fodor s US british virgin islands, 16th edition http://www.concierge.com/destination/britishvirginislands/features/Editorial/Fea
Extractions: GREAT DEALS From Fodors.com Same Only Different If you have seen one Caribbean island you have by no means seen them all. The Caribbean has towering volcanic islands, such as Saba; islands with lush rain forests, such as Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique, and Guadeloupe; and some islands, notably Puerto Rico, that have both jungles and arid climes. You'll find glittering discos, casinos, and dazzling nightlife on such islands as Aruba and Puerto Rico, and in the Dominican Republic, which occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola. There are also isolated cays with only sand, sea, sun, lizards, and mosquitoes. Some islands Puerto Rico and St. Kitts among them have ancient forts to view; others (Barbados and the Caicos Islands) have caverns and caves to explore. There are also places like Grand Turk and Little Cayman, where the only notable sights are beneath the translucent sea.
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Extractions: Caribbean Islands Caribbean Islands Police forces in the three territories were small and under British control. The British Virgin Islands Police Force consisted of a chief of police, ninety-six police officers, and three civilian officers. Most of the police were native British Virgin Islanders. The headquarters was in Road Town on Tortola. In addition to the usual crime prevention and law enforcement activities associated with a police force, the police in the British Virgin Islands were responsible for firefighting. They also operated one marine patrol craft and two launches for use in enforcing the three-nautical-mile territorial limit of the islands, for fishery protection, and for antismuggling and antidrug operations. The Anguilla Police Force was formed in 1972 to replace a detachment of the London Metropolitan Police that had served on the island since 1969, when the island seceded from the St. KittsNevis -Anguilla union. In the 1980s, the force was headed by a chief of police, who reported to the minister of home affairs. There were eighty police officers, as well as special officers who could be deputized as necessary. The force's formal duties included national security, and, as such, it operated two ships for fishery protection and antismuggling operations. Most officers were native Anguillians, but some were recruited in St. Vincent. Headquarters was in The Valley. The British operated the criminal justice system.
Tales For The Tourist: Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink Caribbean tourism and the Amerindians of the region. A Brief history of thebritish virgin islands The british virgin islands were initially populated http://www.centrelink.org/Tourist.html
Extractions: Tales for the Tourist: Caribbean Amerindians in Online Travel Brochures The Lucayans of the Bahamas The "Travelfacts" view of the Arawaks of the Bahamas The Barbados Hotel And Tourism Association History Of Barbados: "A brief look into the past is essential to understanding our way of life today. The first inhabitants of the island were tribes of Amerindians: the peaceful Arawaks and the more fierce Caribs for whom the region is named. It is suspected that the cannibalistic Caribs drove the Arawaks off the island but abandoned it themselves by the early 1600's." The Abbreviated History of Barbados: brief notes on the archaeological history of the island, the early origins of its Amerindian settlers, along with some descriptions of their physical adornmentsalso, again, repeating tales of Carib cannibalism The Arawaks of Curacao Some of the last survivors of the Carib race, which gave its name to the Caribbean, live on the east cost of Dominica. Once these proud and warlike people held sway over the Eastern Caribbean, the few hundred remaining Caribs were forced to the remotest part of Dominica and forgotten However, in 1903 they were officially granted their own territory. Caribs still build their canoes in the traditional way of hollowing out the gommier trees Grenadas History, SeaLink Corp, from the Internet Archive:
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Extractions: Michael Lambek Using a broadly Aristotelian framework I propose poetic form as a means for distinguishing historicities. I analyze Sakalava performances of possession by royal ancestors as the creative production of a kind of history, distinguish it from a dominant occidental model of history, and elaborate the chronotope on which it is based and the heteroglossia and historical consciousness it enables. I argue that Sakalava spirit possession has a strongly realist bent and suggest the interest of poiesis for anthropological analysis and comparison more generally. [historical production, historicity, spirit possession, mimesis, poiesis, Aristotle, Madagascar] Writing History into the Landscape: Space, Myth, and Ritual in Contemporary Amazonia
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Extractions: A Documentary History of the Cinnamon Bay Plantation 1718 - 1917 Compiled for the Cinnamon Bay Archaeological Project by David W. Knight, Director of Danish West Indian Research Site Location Centered at approximately 18 ° North latitude and 65° West longitude, in the extreme northwest portion of the Caribbean island chain commonly referred to as the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands effectively represent the demarcation point between the Greater (to the west) and Lesser (to the east and south) Antilles. Mostly volcanic in origin, the one hundred or so islands, islets, cays, and rock outcroppings which form the Virgins are divided into three basic groups: the Spanish Virgin Islands, situated directly east of the United States Territory of Puerto Rico, of which they are a part; the United States Virgin Islands, lying east of the Spanish Virgin Islands; and the British Virgin Islands, lying roughly to the north and northeast of the U. S. Virgin Islands. The focus of this report is an approximately 300 acre land parcel located on the north central coast of the island of St. John in the United States Virgin Islands. Since the mid-eighteenth century this property has been commonly known as Great Cinnamon Bay. Above: detail of the Cinnamon Bay area from a aerial survey photo of St. John circa 1954
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Extractions: BEACH MONITORING FIELD MANUAL Executive summary Introduction Beach monitoring field techniques Site selection ... Appendix I. Description of the beach profile reference marks List of Figures Location of the monitored beaches in St. John Standard data form Reading the Abney level Completed data form ... To establish a new reference mark when the old one is lost February, 1998. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This manual describes a beach monitoring program that was started in St. John in the United States Virgin Islands in January, 1998. This program was established within the "Coast and Beach Stability in the Caribbean Islands" INTRODUCTION The beach monitoring program in St. John was established within the "Coast and Beach Stability in the Caribbean Islands" (COSALC) project. COSALC is a regional project which covers the smaller English-speaking islands of the eastern Caribbean, including: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, and has now been extended to the United States Virgin Islands.
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Extractions: Country Profile F rom a Colony to Independence. The first inhabitants of the islands were pre-ceramic people called Sibonay. They are believed to have arrived about 2,100 years ago from Central America. The next people to colonise the islands were the Arawak who originated from the Orinoco River area in modern day Venezuela. They in turn were followed by the Caribs, again from South America. The Arawaks and Caribs left far more remains than the Sibonay and there are many archaeological sites scattered around the islands. These sites are marked with piles of shells, pieces of pottery, and old flint tools and some rock drawings on St. Kitts. St. Kitts was called Liamuiga , or "fertile land," by Caribs which was a reference to the island's rich and productive volcanic soil. Since 1983 the main mountain peak, a 3,792-foot extinct volcano, is called Mount Laimuiga. Nevis was called Oualie - pronounced "OO-A-LEE" - by the Caribs.
Extractions: Regional guide to holdings The Caribbean, Central America and the South Atlantic return to NORTH AMERICA , the CARIBBEAN AND CENTRAL AMERICA , or the WORLD MAP Books Periodicals Official publications ... The South Atlantic Books The Library contains a wide variety of monograph literature, published in the Caribbean and other parts of the world, together with an extensive collection of literature, including discussion papers and conference proceedings. It is the official repository for the conference papers of the Society for Caribbean Studies and also has a very large number of papers from the Association of Caribbean Historians. All of this material is catalogued on SASCAT Periodicals A very large number of titles on the Caribbean are taken, ranging from major academic journals such as the Journal of Caribbean History Caribbean Studies New West Indian Guide Caribbean Quarterly and Social and Economic Studies to current affairs titles such as Caribbean Insight and Caribbean Affairs Details of all titles are on SASCAT . A list of current periodical titles arranged by region, country and state is also available.
