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South Caicos, the Glossary

South Caicos is the seventh-largest island in the Turks and Caicos archipelago, with a land area of.^[1]

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Caicos Islands

Ambergris Cay

Big Ambergris Cay is a private residential island and, since 2019, home to Ambergris Cay Private Island Resort. South Caicos and Ambergris Cay are Caicos Islands.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Atlantic Ocean

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

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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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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

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Cockburn Harbour

Cockburn Harbour is a settlement in the Turks and Caicos.

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East Caicos

East Caicos is the fourth largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands. South Caicos and East Caicos are Caicos Islands.

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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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Flamingo

Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes.

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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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Humpback whale

The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.

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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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Marine ecosystem

Marine ecosystems are the largest of Earth's aquatic ecosystems and exist in waters that have a high salt content.

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Marjorie Basden High School

Marjorie Basden High School is a secondary school in South Caicos, Turks and Caicos.

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Melocactus

Melocactus (melon cactus), also known as the Turk's cap cactus, or Pope's head cactus, is a genus of cactus with about 30–40 species.

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Providenciales

Providenciales (known locally as Provo) is an island in the northwest Caicos Islands, part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory. South Caicos and Providenciales are Caicos Islands.

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Real estate development

Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.

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Resource management

In organizational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective development of an organization's resources when they are needed.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.

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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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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.

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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/South_Caicos

Also known as South Caicos Island.