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Caribbean and Sea
Besides those mentioned, other large bodies of water adjacent to the Atlantic are the Caribbean Sea ; the Gulf of Mexico ; Hudson Bay ; the Arctic Ocean ; the Mediterranean Sea ; the North Sea ; the Baltic Sea and the Celtic Sea.
Belize is bordered to the north by Mexico, south and west by Guatemala, and to the east by the Caribbean Sea.
The Arawaks inhabited the islands until the 15th century when they were displaced by the more aggressive Caribs, a tribe from the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea is named.
The North Atlantic Ocean lies to the north of the islands, and the Caribbean Sea lies to the south.
The British Virgin Islands are located in the Caribbean, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico. Its geographic coordinates are.
Its lowest point is the Caribbean Sea and its highest point is Mount Sage at above sea level.
It is a three-island archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, consisting of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman.
The trough is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea and forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate.
The economy of the Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory located in the western Caribbean Sea, is mainly fueled by the tourism sector and by the financial services sector, together representing 70-80 percent of the country's gross domestic product ( GDP ).
It borders both the Caribbean Sea ( to the east ) and the North Pacific Ocean ( to the west ), with a total of 1, 228 km of coastline ( 212 km on the Caribbean coast and 1, 016 km on the Pacific ).
It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, the North Pacific Ocean to the west, and Colombia to the south-east.
Realizing that the Adventure Prize was a marked vessel, he cached it in the Caribbean Sea and continued toward New York aboard a sloop.
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western hemisphere.
The entire area of the Caribbean Sea, the numerous islands of the West Indies, and adjacent coasts, are collectively known as the Caribbean.
The Caribbean Sea is one of the largest seas and has an area of about 2, 754, 000 km² ( 1, 063, 000 sq.
After the discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish term Antillas was assigned to the lands ; stemming from this, " Sea of the Antilles " is a common alternative name for the Caribbean Sea in various European languages.

Caribbean and offshore
As an offshore financial centre, the British Virgin Islands enjoys one of the more prosperous economies of the Caribbean region, with a per capita average income of around $ 38, 500 ( 2004 est.
# 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.
Various Honduran governments have done little to encourage oil exploration, although substantial oil deposits have long been suspected in the Río Sula valley and offshore along the Caribbean coast.
The British Virgin Islands is now one of the world's leading offshore financial centres, and boasts one of the highest incomes per capita in the Caribbean.
The Caribbean Primate Center is located on an offshore island, but part of its colony is kept in a town close to San Juan.
This compact yet powerful hurricane travelled through the Caribbean Sea and later hit Florida before moving offshore Georgia into the Carolinas, killing 217 people and causing over US $ 1 billion in normalized damages.
The final storm of the season was a weak system that formed in the western Caribbean Sea on October 20 and curved northwest and then west, paralleling the coast of Honduras but remaining well offshore.
In January 2009 he took the Central Bank of Ireland and Ernst & Young to task for their failings leading up to the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank, In his capacity as Senator, Ross pressed Allied Irish Bank executives on the bank's fraudulent offshore dealings involving subsidiaries and Caribbean front operations, charging that the only party to be disciplined in the affair was the whistleblower who brought it to light and forcing from the bank's CEO Eugene Sheehy the admission that the institution may have been in breach of the Companies Act.
With regards to the latter, MLATs between the United States and Caribbean nations do not cover U. S. tax evasion, and are therefore ineffective when applied to Caribbean countries, which usually act as offshore " tax havens.
The Atlantic spadefish ( Chaetodipterus faber ), for example, is an attractive black and white zebra-striped fish common just offshore in the southeastern United States and 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.
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.
: Caribbean, it occupies two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Haiti
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.

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