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East Caicos, the Glossary

16 relations: Atlantic Ocean, British Overseas Territories, Eastern Time Zone, Grand Turk Island, High water mark, Lucayan Archipelago, Lucayan people, Margaret Leshikar-Denton, Middle Caicos, Nassau, Bahamas, Pilar Luna, Ramsar Convention, South Caicos, Taíno, Trouvadore, Turks and Caicos Islands.
Caicos Islands
Ramsar sites in British Overseas Territories
Uninhabited islands of the Turks and Caicos Islands

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) are the 14 territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its sovereign territory.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Grand Turk Island

Grand Turk is an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory, tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies.

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High water mark

A high water mark is a point that represents the maximum rise of a body of water over land.

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Lucayan Archipelago

The Lucayan Archipelago, also known as the Bahamian Archipelago, is an island group comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Lucayan people

The Lucayan people were the original residents of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands before the European colonisation of the Americas.

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Margaret Leshikar-Denton

Margaret E. "Peggy" Leshikar-Denton is an archaeologist specialising in underwater archaeology, and director of the Cayman Islands National Museum.

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Middle Caicos

Middle Caicos is the largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands. East Caicos and Middle Caicos are Caicos Islands and Ramsar sites in British Overseas Territories.

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Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas.

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Pilar Luna

María del Pilar Luna Erreguerena (1944 – 15 March 2020) was a Mexican underwater archaeologist, pioneer in the field of archaeology, who founded the Division of Underwater Archaeology of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).

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South Caicos

South Caicos is the seventh-largest island in the Turks and Caicos archipelago, with a land area of. East Caicos and South Caicos are Caicos Islands.

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Taíno

The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities.

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Trouvadore

Trouvadore was a Spanish slave ship that was shipwrecked in 1841 near East Caicos in the course of a run transporting Africans to be illegally sold to the sugarcane plantations in Cuba.

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Turks and Caicos Islands

The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Caicos

Also known as East Caicos Island.