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North Caicos is 19 km (12 miles) from Providenciales, which offers daily ferry trips to the island. Together with Parrot Cay (4.9 km 2 ), and Bay Cay off the eastern shore (at 12.9 km 2 the sixth-largest island of the territory) and a few more uninhabited offshore cays, it forms the North Caicos District, with an area of 144.9 km 2 .
The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean islands or West Indies.Located approximately between latitudes 10° and 16° N and longitudes 60° and 62° W, they extend from Dominica in the north to Trinidad and Tobago in the south, and lie south of the Leeward Islands and east of Leeward Antilles.
Module:Location map/data/USA Puerto Rico is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Puerto Rico. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
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The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; [7] / ˈ t ɜːr k s / and / ˈ k eɪ k ə s,-k oʊ s,-k ɒ s /) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies. [8]
The state of Florida is the closest point in the U.S. mainland to the Greater Antilles, while the Florida Keys, though not part of the Greater Antilles, is an island group north of Cuba. Puerto Rico’s historic district, Old San Juan, contains 16th-century architecture, including the Fort San Felipe del Morro, the Fort San Cristóbal, the City ...
Location of the Turks and Caicos Islands An enlargeable map of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Turks and Caicos Islands: Turks and Caicos Islands – British Overseas Territory comprising two groups of tropical islands north of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic ...
The 56th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 56 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe , Asia , the Pacific Ocean , North America , and the Atlantic Ocean . At this latitude the sun is visible for 17 hours, 37 minutes during the summer solstice and 6 hours, 57 minutes during the winter solstice .