WebThe Pacific Northwest (sometimes Cascadia, or simply abbreviated as PNW) is a geographic region in western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the U.S. states of Oregon, …

WebSydney, Australia ; Melbourne, Australia ; Brisbane, Australia ; Perth, Australia ; Auckland, New Zealand ; Adelaide, Australia ; Wellington, New Zealand ; Honolulu ...

WebThe ABC islands is the physical group of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.These have a shared political history and a status of Dutch underlying ownership, since the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 ceded them back to the Netherlands, as Curaçao and Dependencies from 1815. …

WebTrinidad and Tobago (/ ˈ t r ɪ n ɪ d æ d ... t ə ˈ b eɪ ɡ oʊ / (), /-t oʊ-/), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated 130 kilometres (81 miles) south of Grenada and 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) off the coast of …

WebThe Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (Spanish: Capitanía General de Santo Domingo pronounced [kapitaˈni.a xeneˈɾal de ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] ()) was the first colony in the New World, established by Spain in 1492 on the island of Hispaniola.The colony, under the jurisdiction of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, was granted administrative powers …

WebPeoples South Asia. Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor . Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country; South Asian ethnic groups, referring to people of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the greater South Asia region prior to the 1947 partition of India; Anglo …

WebTheories of the name. After the American Revolution, many loyalists migrated to the Bahamas.Some of the loyalists looked down on the original white Bahamians and called them Conchs, possibly because shellfish was a prominent part of their diet. Some other theories that have been proposed for the origin of the term are:

WebThe law of the British Virgin Islands is a combination of common law and statute, and is based heavily upon English law.. Law in the British Virgin Islands tends to be a combination of the very old and the very new. As a leading offshore financial centre, the territory has extremely modern statutes dealing with company law, insolvency, banking …

WebSome scholars consider it important to distinguish the Taíno from the neo-Taíno nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola, and the Lucayan of the Bahamas and Jamaica.Linguistically or culturally these differences extended from various cognates or types of canoe: canoa, piragua, cayuco to distinct languages. Languages diverged even …

WebThe Group and its affiliates employ about 62,000 people worldwide and have over 4,500 hectares (11,000 acres) of prime resort land and 238,400 hectares (589,099 acres) of land for plantation. ... Lucayan Beach Resort and Casino, Bahamas (in partnership with the Bahamian government) Norwegian Cruise Line, headquartered in Miami. Genting sold …