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Caribbean and occupies
It occupies the northwestern portion of the island of Trinidad and is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the north, the Gulf of Paria to the west, Caroni County to the south and Saint David County and Saint Andrew County to the east.

Caribbean and two-thirds
* Something of, from, or related to the Dominican Republic, the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles, in the Caribbean.

Caribbean and island
He may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Caribbean island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined sometime around 1716.
In 1965, the Blue Angels conducted a Caribbean island tour, flying at five sites.
In many island nations such as those of the Mediterranean, South Pacific and Caribbean, tourism is central to the economy.
These peoples, sometimes referred to as the neo-Taíno nations, had migrated north along the Caribbean island chain.
The Spanish began to create permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, east of Cuba, soon after Columbus ' arrival in the Caribbean, but the coast of Cuba was not fully mapped until 1509, when Sebastián de Ocampo completed this task.
The Spanish established kurtrice and tobacco as Cuba's primary products, and the island soon supplanted Hispaniola as the prime Spanish base in the Caribbean.
Patriots aiding Cuba during the Spanish-American War — and, later, expatriates avoiding Prohibition — regularly mixed rum and cola as a highball and a toast to this Caribbean island.
In 1761 during the Seven Years War a British expedition against Dominica led by Lord Rollo was successful and the island was conquered along with several other Caribbean islands.
Dominica is an island in the Caribbean Sea, located about halfway between the French islands of Guadeloupe ( to the north ) and Martinique ( to the south ).
It is the fourth largest island in the Caribbean with a population of people mainly from African descent.
The island faces the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Caribbean Sea to the west.
Dominica was the last island to be formed in the Caribbean.
The Caribbean Sea offshore of the island of Dominica is home to many cetaceans.
Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.
In 1501, the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand I and Isabella, first granted permission to the colonists of the Caribbean to import African slaves, which began arriving to the island in 1503.
The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this range: Pico Duarte, 3, 098 m, and others above 3, 000 m. Near the center of the island, this range turns southward and is called Sierra de Ocoa, finishing near the city of Azua de Compostela, on the Caribbean coast.
* Llano Costero del Caribe ( in English, " Caribbean Coastal Plain ") is in the southeast of the island ( and of the Dominican Republic ).
Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.
* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
The recorded history of the Caribbean island of Grenada begins in the early 17th century.
Furthermore, United States government military strategists feared that Soviet use of the island would enable the Soviet Union to project tactical power over the entire Caribbean region.
Grenada is a Caribbean island ( one of the Grenadines ) between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago.

Caribbean and Hispaniola
# Saona, close to the southeastern coast of the Hispaniola, in the Caribbean Sea.
# Beata, in the southern coast of the Hispaniola, in the Caribbean Sea.
# Catalina, very close to the southeastern coast of the Hispaniola, in the Caribbean Sea.
In 1971, Papa Doc entered into 99-year contract with Don Pierson representing Dupont Caribbean Inc. of Texas for a free port project on the old buccaneer stronghold of Tortuga island located some off the north coast of the main Haitian island of Hispaniola.
# Île de la Gonâve, the largest offshore island of mainland Hispaniola, is located to the west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in Haiti's Gulf of Gonâve, in the Caribbean Sea ( the largest gulf of the Antilles ).
# Tortuga ( Turtle ), the second largest offshore island of the mainland, located off the northwest coast of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean Sea.
Hispaniola ( Spanish: La Española ) is a major island in the Caribbean, containing the two sovereign states of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Hispaniola is the second-largest island in the Caribbean ( after Cuba ), with an area of.
With an area of, Jamaica is the largest island of the Commonwealth Caribbean and the third largest of the Greater Antilles, after Cuba and Hispaniola.
Spain cedes its half of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola to France.
The two Caribbean species of Priotelus were formerly different ones ( Temnotrogon on Hispaniola ), and are extremely ancient.
The oldest evidence of humans in the Caribbean is the Casirimoid culture in Cuba and Hispaniola which dates back to 4500 BCE and is associated with edge grinders similar to those used in Archaic Age Central America.
( see also Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies ) Although Spain claimed the entire Caribbean, they settled only the larger islands of Hispaniola ( 1493 ), Puerto Rico ( 1508 ), Jamaica ( 1509 ), Cuba ( 1511 ), and Trinidad ( 1530 ), although the Spanish made an exception in the case of the small ' pearl islands ' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast because of their valuable pearl beds which were worked extensively between 1508 and1530.
The species range from northern Mexico and southern Florida south to northern Argentina, including the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola ( Dominican Republic, Haiti ), Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba.
This first occurred along the Caribbean coasts on the islands of Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Cuba, and after 1500 extended into the interiors of both North and South America.
Santo Domingo came to be known as the " Gateway to the Caribbean " and the chief town in Hispaniola from then on.
Recent versions of his life claim that, despite having had little experience as a sailor, Morgan sailed to the Caribbean to take part in the Western Design, Cromwell's plan to invade Hispaniola.
The second piculet subfamily, Nesoctitinae, has a single species, the Antillean Piculet, which is restricted to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
Saint-Domingue was a French colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1809.
France's most important Caribbean colonial possession was established in 1664, when the colony of Saint-Domingue ( today's Haiti ) was founded on the western half of the Spanish island of Hispaniola.

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