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Caye Caulker is thought to have been inhabited for hundreds of years, however the recent population levels didn't start until the Caste War of Yucatan in 1847, when many mestizos of mixed Maya and Spanish descent fled the massacres taking place across the Yucatán.
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In most cases, both airlines have service from the international airport, Philip S. W. Goldson, in Ladyville 9 miles north of Belize City, and from the Belize City Municipal Airport in the city, to San Pedro, Caye Caulker, Dangriga, Placencia, Punta Gorda, and to Flores in Guatemala, and one airline serves Savannah at Big Creek.
Most of the Belize District is in the east central mainland of Belize ; the Belize District also includes various offshore islands, including Ambergris Caye, Caye Caulker, St. George's Caye, Caye Chapel, English Caye and Goff's Caye.
The larger islands are Ambergris Caye, Caye Caulker, Caye Chapel, St. George's Caye, and the Turneffe Islands.
Tourists are often taken on boat trips to the Pelican Cays, notably Caye Caulker and Ambergris Caye.
Caye Caulker is a small limestone coral island off the coast of Belize in the Caribbean Sea measuring about ( north to south ) by less than ( east to west ).
Caye Caulker is located approximately north-northeast of Belize City, and is accessible by high-speed water taxi or small plane.
Caye Caulker remains vulnerable to direct hits from hurricanes because it has no defenses from storm surges.
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In Belize, off the island of Ambergris Caye, there is a popular marine sanctuary, Hol Chan, where divers and snorkelers often gather to watch stingrays and nurse sharks drawn to the area by tour operators who feed the animals.
The island of Ambergris Caye is geographically close to Corozal District, but it is a part of Belize District.
San Pedro is a town on the southern part of the island of Ambergris Caye in the Belize District of the nation of Belize, in Central America.
Ambergris Caye, pronounced, is the largest island of Belize located northeast of the country in the Caribbean Sea.
The Caye ( pronounced as " key ", meaning an island, derived from ) is about long from north to south, and about wide.
From 3 September through 10 September 1798, British settlers fought and defeated a small Spanish fleet sent to drive them from the area ; this battle is marked as a national holiday in Belize each September 10 as the Battle of St. George's Caye.
September 10 is a national holiday in Belize, celebrating the defeat of the Spanish in the Battle of St. George's Caye much like Americans celebrate the Fourth of July.
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Recently diving has also been offered from the island Long Caye in the Lighthouse Reef only a couple of miles away from the Great Blue Hole.
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It was the coordination site for the 1798 Battle of St. George's Caye, won by the British against would-be invaders, and the home of the local courts and government officials up to the 1970s.
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Tourism development of Ambergris Caye began in the early 1970s and grew considerably in the later years of the 20th century.
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Hippies following the so-called " Gringo Trail ", of Isla Mujeres, Tulum, Caye Caulker, Tikal and Lake Atitlan in Guatemala passed through the island ( many of them making use of the easily available marijuana ).
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* 1798 – The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
* September 10 – Battle of St. George's Caye: Off the coast of British Honduras ( now Belize ), a group of British nationals and African slaves defeat a force sent from Mexico to drive them out.
Many coral reefs, cays, and islands to the east — such as Ambergris Caye, Lighthouse Reef, Glover Reef, and the Turneffe Islands — are part of Belize's territory, forming the Belize Barrier Reef, the longest in the western hemisphere stemming approximately and the second longest in the world after the Great Barrier Reef.
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He was popularly called " the Caulker " ( Καλαφάτης, Kalaphates ) in accordance with his father's original occupation.
At Abney Park Cemetery there are also some of the early settlers in Britain from the four corners of the world, such as the African, Thomas Caulker, the son of the King of Bompey ( now Sierra Leone ), who signed an anti-slavery agreement that became part of an Act of Parliament in the 1850s ; and Leota, a native of the Samoa Islands whose life in London was due to the work of the London Missionary Society who sought to build schools and bring scripture to the inhabitants of the South Seas.
The small airplanes and asphalt-paved airstrip of Caye Caulker Airport may appear small to visitors accustomed to jet airliners and long concrete runways, but the system of barrier islands support a lively network of air transportation with an array of travel times.
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