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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... A list of fishes of Jamaica. Jamaican waters contain fresh and saltwater fish. [1]
In the mid-17th century, sugarcane was introduced to the British West Indies by the Dutch, [29] [30] from Brazil. Upon landing in Jamaica and other islands, they quickly urged local growers to change their main crops from cotton and tobacco to sugarcane. With depressed prices of cotton and tobacco, due mainly to stiff competition from the North ...
"West Indies" or "West India" was a part of the names of several companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company. [14] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...
These people lived near the coast and extensively hunted turtles and fish. [1] Around 950 AD, the people of the Meillacan culture settled on both the coast and the interior of Jamaica, either absorbing the Redware culture or co-inhabiting the island with them. [1] The Taíno culture developed on Jamaica around 1200 AD. [1]
Porus was founded in 1840 by the missionary James Phillippo as a free village for ex-slaves following emancipation. [2] It was his sixth such village. [2] It was originally called Vale Lionel after the then Governor of Jamaica, Sir Lionel Smith, [2] but was soon renamed "Porous" most probably after the porous soil in the vicinity. [2]
Around 650 AD, Jamaica was discovered by the people of the Ostionoid culture, [1] who likely came from South America. [2] Alligator Pond in Manchester Parish and Little River in St. Ann Parish are among the earliest known sites of this Ostionoid people, who lived near the coast and extensively hunted turtles and fish.
Navassa Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea, and is an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The island is thought to have been claimed by Haiti prior to being claimed by the United States, as far back as 1801.
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