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Cayman and Rise
The islands are located on the Cayman Rise which forms the northern margin of the Cayman Trough.
This site is located on the 110 km long, ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise within the Cayman Trough.
* Cayman Rise, Kennedy Town

Cayman and extends
The bank branch network extends throughout Thailand ’ s 76 provinces, as well as internationally with four branches overseas in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Cayman Islands and Shenzhen and three representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Kunming.
The trench is associated with a complex transition between the subduction zone to the south along the Lesser Antilles island arc and the major transform fault zone or plate boundary that extends west between Cuba and Hispaniola through the Cayman Trench to the coast of Central America.

Cayman and from
England took formal control of the Caymans, along with Jamaica, under the Treaty of Madrid in 1670 after the first settlers came from Jamaica in 1661-71 to Little Cayman and Cayman Brac.
In 1835, Governor Sligo arrived in Cayman from Jamaica to declare all slaves free in accordance with the Emancipation Act of 1833.
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.
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 ).
Sunset from North Side beach, Grand Cayman
Therefore, native Caymanians do not have any Amerindian heritage from their own islands ; however, a significant number of Jamaicans have settled in the Cayman Islands over the years, so they and their descendants may have some Amerindian blood via Jamaica.
The largest numbers of expatriates living in the Cayman Islands ( as of the government's 1999 Census Report ) hail from Jamaica ( 8, 320 ), the United Kingdom ( 2, 392 ), the United States ( 2, 040 ), Canada ( 1, 562 ), and Honduras ( 873 ).
Islanders ' accents retain elements passed down from English, Scottish, and Welsh settlers ( among others ) in a language variety known as Cayman Creole.
A new modern constitution, which devolved some authority from the United Kingdom to the Cayman Islands government, was passed by referendum on 20 May 2009.
However, records from the colonial era indicate that Cayman Islands, then a dependency of Jamaica, was not tax-exempt during the period that followed.
some foreign ships register in the Cayman Islands as a flag of convenience ; includes ships from 11 countries among which are: Greece 15, US 5, UK 5, Cyprus 2, Denmark 2, Norway 3 ( 2002 est.
The foreign relations of the Cayman Islands are largely managed from the United Kingdom, as the islands remain an overseas territory of the UK.
However, the Government of the Cayman Islands often resolves important issues with foreign governments alone, without intervention from Britain.
Boxster and Cayman production was outsourced to Valmet Automotive in Finland from 1997 to 2011, and in 2012 production moved to Germany.
Engine output increased in 2007, when both Boxster models received the engines from their corresponding Porsche Cayman variants.
* Cayman Islands-The islands were acquired from Spain in 1670.
In 1997, a government-appointed tribunal led by Judge Brian McCracken first revealed that Haughey had received substantial monetary gifts from businessmen, and that he had held secret offshore bank accounts in the Ansbacher Bank in the Cayman Islands.
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.
Although HPS was incorporated in the Cayman Islands in 1975 and is " non-American ", it shares both the logo and name of Halliburton Energy Services and, according to Dow Jones Newswires, offers services from Halliburton units worldwide through its Tehran office.

Cayman and southeastern
The Northern Mockingbird breeds in southeastern Canada, the United States, northern Mexico, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and the Greater Antilles.

Cayman and Cuba
Georgetown, the capital of the Cayman Islands is south of Havana, Cuba, and northwest of Kingston, Jamaica, and are between Cuba and Central America.
While it was able to establish itself on some islands, such as Barbados, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, other introductions, such as in Cuba before 1900 and in 1946, and on the islands of Dominica and Grand Cayman, were unsuccessful.
* Greater Antillean Marine ( Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States )
* T. a. furcata – Cuba, Jamaica, Cayman Islands ( rare or extinct on Grand Cayman ).
Location of Grand Cayman ( circled ), under Cuba, south of the Florida peninsula.
During the Eocene the trough was the site of a subduction zone which formed the volcanic arc of the Cayman Ridge and the Sierra Maestra volcanic terrain of Cuba to the north, as the northeastward-moving Caribbean Plate was subducted beneath the southwest-moving North American Plate, or as some researchers contend, beneath a plate fragment dubbed the East Cuban Microplate.
Evolution of the Caribbean Sea ( 100 mya-Present ) Collision of Cuba with Florida Platform and Opening of the Cayman Trough.
It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate.
Cayman Airways largely serves major regional cities in the United States, Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras, and Panama.
Durrell's overseas projects in other Caribbean islands include the Lesser Antillean Iguana ( Iguana delicatissima ) on Anguilla, the Antiguan Racer ( Alsophis antiguae ) on Antigua, the St Lucia Iguana ( Iguana iguana ), the St Lucia Parrot (" Amazona versicolor ") and St Lucia Whiptail ( Cnemidophorus vanzoi ) on Saint Lucia, the Blue Iguana ( Cyclura lewisi ) on Grand Cayman, and the Cuban Solenodon ( Solenodon cubanus ) on Cuba.
These birds migrate to the southern United States, Mexico, northern Central America -( Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras ), Cuba, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Cayman Islands.
Haitian Creole language ( Kreyòl ayisyen ; ), often called simply Creole or Kreyòl, is a language spoken in Haiti by about twelve million people, which includes all Haitians in Haiti and via emigration, by about two to three million speakers residing in the Bahamas, Cuba, Canada, France, Cayman Islands, French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Belize, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Ivory Coast, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and the United States.
Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean and Panama in Central America use Eastern Standard Time UTC − 05 year round.
On September 12, a hurricane watch was issued for the Cayman Islands, and the hurricane watch for the southern coast of Cuba was extended to Cienfuegos, with the portion of the watch east of Camaguey upgraded to a hurricane warning.
Roxanne posed a threat to Cuba and the Cayman Islands, which briefly prompted the issuance of a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch.
* Oncidium calochilum ( Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic ) ( now synonym of Tolumnia calochila )
The West Indian Whistling Duck is widely scattered throughout the West Indies, including a large breeding population in the Bahamas, and smaller numbers in Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and Jamaica.
On November 2, a tropical storm watch was issued for Grand Cayman Island, and a hurricane watch was issued for Cuba.
Notable species of birds include the Bahamian subspecies of Cuban Amazon ( Amazona leucocephala bahamensis ), which exists only in Cuba, the Cayman Islands, the southern Bahamas and Abaco.
It covers the area of the nations of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands, and Venezuela.
Struck the Windward Islands, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Cuba.

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