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The Cayman Islands are a Caribbean British overseas territory that have been under various governments since their discovery by Europeans.

Christopher Columbus sighted the Cayman Islands on May 10, 1503 and named them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles seen swimming in the surrounding waters.

The first recorded permanent inhabitant of the Cayman Islands, Isaac Bodden, was born on Grand Cayman around 1700.

These first settlements were abandoned after attacks by Spanish privateers, but English privateers often used the Cayman Islands as a base and in the 18th century they became an increasingly popular hideout for pirates, even after the end of legitimate privateering in 1713.

The Cayman Islands historically have been popular as a tax haven.

From 1670, the Cayman Islands were effective dependencies of Jamaica, although there was considerable self-government.

The Cayman Islands were officially declared and administered as a dependency of Jamaica from 1863, but were rather like a parish of Jamaica with the nominated justices of the peace and elected vestrymen in their Legislature.

In 1959, upon the formation of the Federation of the West Indies the dependency status with regards to Jamaica ceased officially although the Governor of Jamaica remained the Governor of the Cayman Islands and had reserve powers over the Islands.

Upon Jamaica's independence in 1962, the Cayman Islands broke its administrative links with Jamaica and opted to become a direct dependency of the British Crown, with the chief official of the islands being the Administrator.

In 1953 the first airfield in the Cayman Islands was opened as well as the George Town Public hospital.

In 1971 the governmental structure of the Islands was again changed with a Governor now running the Cayman Islands.

Athel Long CMG, CBE was the last Administrator and the first Governor of the Cayman Islands.

Although all administrative links with Jamaica were broken in 1962, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica continue to share many links and experiences, including membership in the Commonwealth of Nations ( and Commonwealth citizenship ) and a common united church ( the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands ) and Anglican diocese ( although there is debate about this ) as well as a common currency ( until 1972 ).

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

The boom in the Cayman Islands ' international finance industry can also be at least partly attributed to the British overseas territory having no direct taxation.

The Dominican Republic, Antigua, Aruba, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Barbados, Dominica, Haiti, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Maarten, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts, Saint Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are also known for lengthy carnival seasons and large celebrations.

Reconnaissance flights are also reported of Douglas AD-5Ws of VFP-62 and / or VAW-12 squadron from USS Essex or another carrier, such as USS Shangri-La that was part of the task force assembled off the Cayman Islands.

East End blow holeAs well, Grand Cayman Island also has a number of natural attractions: the blow holes in the East End district, the Mastic Trail that runs north to south through the center of the island, Hell in the West Bay, and the acclaimed Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park, to name a few.

The Cayman Trough, ( also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough ) is a complex transform fault zone pull apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.

* M. p. orpheus ( Linnaeus, 1758 ): Ranges from the Bahamas to the Greater Antilles, also the Cayman and Virgin Islands.

That original design was used on baggage stickers by Cayman Islands Customs and also became the logo of the Department of Tourism which was then headed by Eric Bergstrom.

In the Cayman Islands fishing in the spawning holes of the grouper has been banned until the end of 2011, and in the case of the Bahamas fishing for the groupers in the months of December 2003 to February 2004 was also stopped.

The 1M was featured on Top Gear on 26 June 2011 and recorded a time of 1: 25. 0 round the Top Gear test track ( the fastest M series BMW so far ) and also beat the Porsche Cayman R and Lotus Evora S in a drag race.

The church also has a sizeable outgrowth in the Cayman Islands.

British overseas territories ( Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands ) as well as Dutch possessions ( Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Maarten, and Sint Eustatius ) in the Caribbean are also excluded from the Ibero-American region.

This exaggeration phenomenon also exists on Cayman Brac Walls.

Little Cayman also has a visitor centre for its Red-footed Booby pond, the largest red-footed booby population in the Caribbean and a designated Ramsar wetland of international importance.

Other important species present on Little Cayman include the endangered Lesser Caymans iguana, the critically endangered hawksbill turtle, and the threatened West Indian Whistling Duck ( Dendrocygna arborea ), also known as the Black-billed Whistling Duck, which are also present to a lesser degree on nearby Cayman Brac as well.

Bush was elected Premier during the Cayman Islands general election in 2009, and in addition to assuming the post of Premier, he also currently ' serves as Minister of Finance, Tourism & Development for the current United Democratic Party administration.

The Bahamian dialect of the English language is distinctively Caribbean in character, similar to those of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, also formerly part of the British West Indies.

Lewis is the Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of TLC Beatrice, LLC, the Lewis Family investment firm and is also Chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice ( China ), Limited, a Cayman company which operates retail convenience stores in five major cities in China and TLC Beatrice Foods ( Philippines ) which operates a fresh meat processing plant.

Cayman Brac also appeals to visitors of many persuasions besides divers.

It also had the agency in New York and a branch in Grand Cayman, two subsidiaries in Switzerland and Panama, and representative offices in eight countries.

Columbus had found the two small islands ( Cayman Brac and Little Cayman ) and it was these two islands that he named " Las Tortugas ".

They have been introduced to Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, and the United States Virgin Islands .< ref name =" wildblue "> Though the species is not native to Martinique, a small wild colony of released or escaped Green Iguanas endures at historic Fort Saint Louis.

The exceptions were Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands ( which are all fairly flat ), and Trinidad ( which has a large mountain range in the north and a small central mountain range in the interior of the otherwise flat island ).

A small islet just off the south coast of Little Cayman can be visited via sailboat or kayak.

A local enterprise that is nearly unique to Cayman Brac is its artists who work in a local stone known as Caymanite, typically making jewelry or small stone carvings.

Zamia integrifolia is a small, tough, woody cycad native to the southeast United States ( Florida, Georgia ), the Bahamas and the Caribbean south to Grand Cayman and Puerto Rico ( possibly extinct on this island ).

The plant is a small tree found in the coastal limestones of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and some of the Cayman and Bahama Islands.