Lesser Antilles

main part of the Lesser Antilles and 29 kilometres north of the coast of Venezuela. Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, Aruba forms a group referred to as the ABC islands. Aruba is one of the four countries that form the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along with the Netherlands, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten; the citizens of these countries are all Dutch nationals. Aruba has no administrative subdivisions for census purposes, is divided into eight regions. Its capital is Oranjestad. Unlike much of the Caribbean region, Aruba has a dry climate and an arid, cactus-strewn landscape. Aruba's first inhabitants are thought…

STORY Ned Kelly’s parents were married in Melbourne on November the 15th 1850, four years later their first son Ned was born at Wallan. The Kelly’s lived at Beveridge for a short time before relocating to Avenel. It was at Avenel that ten year old Ned saved the life a five year old child from drowning in the local creek. Ned’s father died shortly after and the family left Avenel in 1867. The Kelly family moved to the Eleven Mile Creek outside of Greta and at the age of thirteen Ned took up with…

During this time it seems that migration of people making pottery to the carriean island came thorough lesser Antilles is to have happened. This was also known as the time when the more eccentric and more sophisticated cultures from Central Americal rose specifically around Costa Rica and Panama. The Orinoco region which was also called the Saladoid culture arrived at the Carribean during this era which was 2,000 years ago. They made great headways into the trade world in northern South America…

The Carbis Ever wonder where the Caribean Sea got its name from? The answer to that is from one of the main tribes of indigenous people called the Carbis, a warlike tribe with cannibalistic customs that lived in the Lesser Antilles islands, a string of islands, between Florida and Venezuela, encloses the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea ,the other tribe was called Arawak more known as Taino. Before the explorers came the Carib tribes were mostly a patriarchal society with the men being…

Hurricane Matthew has been a very severe weather event. Hurricane Matthew started on September 28th, 2016 through October 10th, 2016. Lasting a total of thirteen days. The reason that Hurricane Matthew became such a major event is because it traveled a really long path, and how many people lost their lives because of this hurricane. There were a total of 1,384 deaths caused by Hurricane Matthew. This hurricane occurred from the Caribbean to Cape Hatteras. It went through many places. Such as,…

The first inhabitants of modern-day Puerto Rico are the Tainos. This group of Indians were a subgroup of the Arawakan. The Tainos started to live in Puerto Rico, approximately 1000 AD. This group of Indians lived in small villages. They were gatherers and hunters. The crops they grew consisted of cassava, garlic, potatoes, sapota, guava and sugar apple. The Tainos were religious, believing in many gods. They believed that being in the good grace of their semis protected them from natural…

In comparison with other European colonial powers the English colonialisms is a late one. While the Spaniards had already established vast colonial areas throughout Middle and South America, and the Portuguese had a flowering trade in the eastern hemisphere in the Indian Ocean and even with Japan (Bitterli 52-69), the English only succeeded in settling down on the North American Coast in Jamestown in 1607 and on the Lesser Antilles only in the 1620s and 1630s (Sheridan, 394). These little…

In the common world, when one utters the word cannibalism, it is often understood to be the consumption of human flesh by another human. It is considered to be a taboo and therefore, many hesitate to talk about it. The term cannibalism has been derived from the Island of Carib, of the Lesser Antilles. The people of this island have acquired a long standing reputation as cannibals following the recordings of their legends in the 17th century. Two of the most common forms of evidence generally…

The name of my explorer is Giovanni Da Verrazano. Giovani Da Verrazano was born on 1485, later on he died on 1582, which made him approximately 43 years old. A particular accomplishment Verrazano is famous for is that he reserved the Atlantic Coast of North America in the middle of the Carolinas and Newfoundland, as well as the New York harbor. The country that sponsored Verrazano is France.The particular person who commissioned their voyage was King Francis I. Giovanni Da Verrazano made…

He stopped between Isle-aux-Chats (now Cat Island) and Isle Surgeres (renamed Isle-aux-Vascular or Ship Island) on February 13, 1699 and continued his explorations to the mainland, with his brother Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville to Biloxi. He built a precarious fort, called 'Maurepas' (later 'Old Biloxi'), before returning to France. He returned twice in the Gulf of Mexico and established a fort at Mobile in 1702. A major French settlement lay on the island of Hispaniola, where France…