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Caribmap is a non-profit online library of historical and modern maps, including topographic maps, of the Caribbean islands. [1] Since its establishment in 1999, the site has accumulated approximately 1800 maps of the islands that have been printed since the beginning of the 16th century [2] The purpose of the site is to allow users, such as historians and scientists, to gain detailed ...
The shaded relief map of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico area [8] [9] The geological age of the Caribbean Sea is estimated to be 160 million to 180 million years and was formed by a horizontal fracture called Pangaea that split the supercontinent in the Mesozoic Era. [10]
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The Bahamas is expected to be highly affected by sea level rise because at least 80% of the total land is below 10 meters elevation. [19] [20] As a small island developing state, the Bahamas is vulnerable to escalating disease outbreaks, and climate change could affect the seasonality of outbreaks and transmission of disease. [21]
Bays of the Caribbean islands and Caribbean Sea, a subgroup of bays of the Atlantic Ocean. Subcategories This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total.
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. The archipelago is in the western North Atlantic Ocean , north of Cuba and the other Antillean Islands , and east and south-east of Florida .
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This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This ...