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Anguilla's thin arid soil being largely unsuitable for agriculture, the island has few land-based natural resources. [8] Its main industries are tourism, offshore incorporation and management, offshore banking, captive insurance and fishing. [8] [7] Anguilla's currency is the East Caribbean dollar, though the US dollar is also widely accepted. [7]
These people travelled to the island on rafts and in dugout canoes, settling in fishing, hunting and farming groups. Forty Arawak villages have been excavated, the largest being those at Island Harbour, Sandy Ground, Sandy Hill, Rendezvous Bay, and Shoal Bay East. [1] The Amerindian name for the island was Malliouhana. The earliest Amerindian ...
Anguilla's coral and limestone terrain provide no subsistence possibilities for forests, woodland, pastures, crops, or arable lands. Its dry climate and thin soil hamper commercial agricultural development. In Anguilla forest cover is around 61% of the total land area, equivalent to 5,500 hectares (ha) of forest in 2020, which was unchanged ...
Shoal Bay (Darwin), a bay; Shoal Bay, Northern Territory, a locality; Shoal Bay Coastal Reserve, a protected area; Shoal Bay Receiving Station, a defence facility; Shoal Bay Waste Management Facility, a facility in the locality of Holmes, Northern Territory
The Caribbean Sea. Most of the Caribbean countries are islands in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes.The largest islands include Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico.
Shoal Bay is located on the North Shore, separating Northcote from Takapuna. [2] It is a drowned river valley that flooded during the last glacial period. Formerly the mouth of the Wairau Valley creek, the creek changed course to Milford after Lake Pupuke erupted, approximately 140,000 years ago.