Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands is an overseas territory belonging to Great Britain located in the western Caribbean Sea comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman.
History
Cayman Islands, often referred to simply as Cayman, was first visited by Christopher Columbus 10th May 1503 on his fourth and last voyage to America. The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake, who sailed the islands in 1686 and christened them the Cayman Islands. The islands, along with the nearby Jamaica governed England in 1670 under the Treaty of Madrid. They were ruled by a single colony with Jamaica until 1962 when the islands became a separate British overseas territory and Jamaica became an independent kingdom within the Commonwealth.
The capital of the Cayman Islands / Cayman Islands called Georgetown.
Geography
Cayman Islands located in the western Caribbean Sea. The three islands lie approximately 770 kilometers south of Miami, 240 miles south of Cuba and 290 miles northwest of Jamaica. Grand Cayman is by far the largest island and has an area of 200 square kilometers. The two other islands, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, located about 145 km east of the main island and land, respectively 36 and 25 square kilometers.
All three islands are created by large coral reefs and is almost completely exhausted. An exception to this is The Bluff on Cayman Brac, which rises 42 meters above sea level – the highest point on the island.
Central African Republic & Cape Verde
