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Between the early 1950s and the late 1970s the UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys published several editions of a series of maps of Jamaica at the scale of 1:50,000. The following table summarises the known publication dates.
1950s establishments in Jamaica (7 C, 1 P) 0–9. 1951 in Jamaica (1 C) 1952 in Jamaica (1 C) 1953 in Jamaica (1 C) 1954 in Jamaica (1 C) 1955 in Jamaica (1 C, 1 P)
Jamaica Underground (book) [2] This states on page 37 that the One Eye River is derived from the Coffee River which rises in the Coffee River Cave . [ 2 ] This was shown by the 1965-1966 Karst Hydrology Expedition using a soluble dye to be a continuation of the Hectors River after its disappearance into Hectors River Sink 1.
1900s–1950s. 1907 – 14 January: ... Maps of Kingston, Jamaica, 1960s; Images of Kingston, Jamaica, various dates (via New York Public Library)
The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery. [1] [2] [3] By roughly 800 AD, a second wave of inhabitants occurred by the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos, prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494. [1]
After 146 years of Spanish rule, a large group of British sailors and soldiers landed in the Kingston Harbour on 10 May 1655, during the Anglo-Spanish War. [4] The English, who had set their sights on Jamaica after a disastrous defeat in an earlier attempt to take the island of Hispaniola, marched toward Villa de la Vega, the administrative center of the island.
Hurricane Gilbert was the strongest landfalling storm in Jamaican history. The island nation of Jamaica lies in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola.It frequently experiences the effects of Atlantic tropical cyclones that track across the Caribbean, with impacting storms often originating east of the Windward Islands or in the southern Caribbean between Nicaragua and Colombia.
Cockpit Country Forest Reserve was designated in 1950, and covers an area of 221.75 km 2. [9] In 1979 an unpublished paper proposed preserving the area as a National Park. [ 10 ] In 1994 the geographer Alan Eyre [ 11 ] proposed that the Cockpit Country be designated as a World Heritage Site to preserve its environment.