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Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies 11 km (6.8 mi) off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmost island in the West Indies.
Naval Base Trinidad. / 10.683546; -61.594780. Naval Base Trinidad, also called NAS Trinidad, NAS Port-of-Spain, was a large United States Navy Naval base built during World War II to support the many naval ships fighting and patrolling the Battle of the Atlantic. The fighting in the area became known as the Battle of the Caribbean.
From shell midden, Mt Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957. Human settlement in Trinidad dates back at least 7,000 years. The earliest settlers, termed Archaic or Ortoiroid, are believed to have settled Trinidad and Tobago from actual Venezuela at northeastern South America around 4000 BC. Twenty-nine Archaic sites have been identified, mostly in south ...
U.S. Virgin Islands, like much of the Caribbean, is LHT and is the only American jurisdiction that still has LHT, because the islands drove on the left when the US purchased the former Danish West Indies in the 1917 Treaty of the Danish West Indies. Most passenger vehicles are LHD due to them being imported from the American mainland. [23] Guam ...
Brian Lara batting for the West Indies against India. Cricket is a popular sport of Trinidad and Tobago, often deemed the national sport, and there is intense inter-island rivalry with its Caribbean neighbours. Trinidad and Tobago is represented at Test cricket, One Day International as well as Twenty20 cricket level as a member of the West ...
Currencies of the British West Indies; International status and usage of the euro; Pan-African Payment and Settlement System; List of countries by leading trade partners; List of Latin American and Caribbean countries by GDP growth; List of Latin American and Caribbean countries by GDP (nominal) List of Latin American and Caribbean countries by ...
Harold La Borde (18 June 1933 – 12 June 2015) was a Trinidadian sailor and adventurer [1] who from 1969 to 1973 circumnavigated the world in his 40-ft ketch Hummingbird II. [2] He was accompanied by his wife, Kwailan, and his five-year-old son Pierre. The couple were the first known Trinidadian sailors to cross the Atlantic (and later to ...
"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. [13] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...