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This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many instances the pages linked below have as their primary focus the registered assets rather than the ...
The Zemi Figures from Vere, Jamaica (this area is situated in the modern parish of Clarendon) [1] are an important collection of pre-Columbian wooden figures found in the Carpenters Mountains in Jamaica in the late 18th century. They were originally made by the Taíno people and may have served as venerated objects that housed local spirits or ...
New Caledonia from space Coral reefs of New Caledonia from ISS, September 9, 2020. New Caledonia is part of Zealandia, a fragment of the ancient Gondwana super-continent, which is part of Oceania. It is speculated that New Caledonia separated from Australia roughly 66 million years ago, subsequently drifting in a north-easterly direction ...
After the Spanish repelled this poorly executed attack, the English force then sailed for Jamaica, the only Spanish West Indies island that did not have new defensive works. In May 1655, around 7,000 English soldiers landed near Jamaica's capital, named Spanish Town and soon overwhelmed the small number of Spanish troops (at the time, Jamaica's ...
Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Jamaica" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
New Caledonian people (10 C, 4 P) Politics of New Caledonia (14 C, 9 P) S. ... Pages in category "New Caledonia" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of ...
The earliest traces of human settlement in New Caledonia go back to the Lapita culture, about 3000 BP, i.e. 1000 BCE. [2] [3] In addition, Polynesian seafarers have intermarried with the Kanaks over the last centuries. [4] [5] New Caledonia was annexed to France in 1853, and became an overseas territory of France in 1956. An independence ...
also: Countries: Jamaica: People: Subcategories. This category has the following 26 subcategories, out of 26 total. ... Wikipedia categories named after Jamaican ...