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The Anegada Passage is a key shipping lane for the Panama Canal. [2] Often called the "Oh-my-god-a Passage", [3] it is considered a difficult passage for sailors because of the winds, waves, and swells. [4] The Anegada Passage was the site of the 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and subsequent tsunami. [5] [6]
Anegada / ˌ æ n ə ˈ ɡ ɑː d ə / is the northernmost of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. It lies approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Virgin Gorda. Anegada is the only inhabited British Virgin Island formed from coral and limestone, [2] rather than being of ...
San Diego Zoo Global has been running the Anegada Iguana Project since 1992, with the Iguana Headstart Facility being opened in 2003. [ 3 ] Today, tourism is the main income source for the town even though commercial fishing also is a substantial business.
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
Pan-American countries by population, 2020. This is a list of countries and dependent territories in the Americas by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections.
Antarctica Map of island countries: these states are not located on any continent-sized landmass, but they are usually grouped geographically with a neighbouring continent. Determining the boundaries between the continents is generally a matter of geographical convention. Several slightly different conventions are in use.
Country of Curaçao CUW Dutch: Curaçao — Land Curaçao Papiamento: Kòrsou — Pais Kòrsou: Willemstad: 190,338 276 km 2 (107 sq mi) Netherlands Antillean guilder Netherlands: Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Federal Dependencies VE-W Spanish: Dependencias Federales de Venezuela: Gran Roque: 2,155 342 km 2 (132 sq mi ...
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent , Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [ 2 ] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...