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Les Jolies Eaux is a villa situated at the southern tip of Mustique Island. [6] The villa's name is a French term which translates to ‘beautiful waters’. [7] This name was coined by locals as a result of the prime geological location of the property which overlooks the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic. [8]
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [2] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
The three are examples of a style of urban planning known as New Urbanism. Rosemary Beach, designed in 1995, offers shops, restaurants, a hotel, and public green spaces. [ 3 ] The design of the town reflects New Orleans’ French Quarter [ 3 ] and European Colonial influences in the West Indies and Caribbean.
Pastel Bermuda cottages are often regarded as a hallmark of the island, along with pink beaches and Bermuda shorts; the style has even been described as the country's only indigenous art form. [1] In addition to the local style, historical military buildings and forts and modern office buildings are highly visible.
The resort, near picturesque beaches, is a vacation destination in the Caribbean. It is located on the northwest side of St. John , US Virgin Islands . The resort is within Virgin Islands National Park, on property once owned by Laurance Rockefeller , and operates under a unique agreement with the US National Park Service.
"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. [12] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...
The West Indies (red), which includes the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago. The Antilles [1] is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east. The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the Greater Antilles and the ...
Location within the Lesser Antilles La Tortuga Island, Federal Dependencies of Venezuela Klein Bonaire, Netherlands. The Leeward Antilles (Dutch: Benedenwindse Eilanden; Spanish: islas de Sotavento) are a chain of islands in the Caribbean, specifically part of the southerly islands of the Lesser Antilles (and, in turn, the Antilles and the West Indies) along the southeastern fringe of the ...