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Off its northern border lies the first land seen by Columbus on his voyage of discovery, and within it is all he ever saw of the new world. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/the_caribbean_1900s.htm In 1900, an observer, looking back over the more than four hundred years which had elapsed since Europeans had entered the Caribbean region, found much to justify a feeling of pessimism as to its future. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/bahama_islands.htm The Bahama Islands consist of about 20 inhabited islands and more than 3000 islets, cays, and rocks. The land area of the 19 principal islands, of which Andros ( 1600 sq. mi.) is the largest, is about 4375 square miles. The Turks and Caicos Islands, which form the southeast end of the archipelago, were formerly administered as a part of the Bahama Colony but are now governed as dependencies of Jamaica. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/jamaica.htm With an area of about 4450 square miles, Jamaica is third in size of the Greater Antilles group of the West Indies ( Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico). In general aspect it closely resembles the other islands of the Greater Antilles, with its wooded mountains, limestone plateaus, and steep seaward slopes rising abruptly from a coastal plain that in most places is extremely narrow. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/leeward_islands.htm The Leeward Islands Colony consists of two main clusters of islands separated from one another by the 30-mile-wide Anegada Passage. Northwest of the passage lie the British Virgin Islands, comprising about 32 islands and rocks. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/windward_islands.htm The islands of the Windward Islands Colony trend in a generally southward direction from the French island of Guadeloupe. Martinique, also French, separates Dominica, the northernmost island of the colony, from the others. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/grenada.htm Grenada and the Grenadines, far southern members of the chain, surmount the second largest bank of the Lesser Antilles; it measures nearly 100 miles in length, north-northeast and south-southwest, and from 10 to 17 miles in breadth. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/cultural_futures_of_grenada.htm The lower slopes of Grenada on the east and south, as well as many of the delta plains on both sides of the island, are cultivated. Many hillsides are occupied with groves of cacao trees; bananas and coconut palms are also common. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/the_long_grenada_bank.htm The southern 20 miles of this long bank, which turns somewhat to the southwest, is island-free; whatever volcanic islands have served as it foundation are now wholly submerged. Four small shoals, from 4 to 10 fathoms in depth, rising on the northwestern side of this part of the bank, may mark former island summits. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/barbados.htm Barbados, 19 by 10 miles across, and 1104 feet high, of which I had a good sight during a brief visit, will now be shown to exhibit even more peculiar features; indeed, in several respects it falls entirely outside of the scheme, just as its eastward position places it somewhat outside of the Lesser Antillean chain; it belongs in a class by itself. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/trinidad_and_tobago.htm Geologically and physiographically Trinidad and Tobago are outliers of the South American continent. Trinidad (area 1862 sq. mi.) is separated from Venezuela by the Gulf of Paria, which it encloses on the east, and by the narrow entrances to the gulf. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/guiana.htm Guiana has an area of more than four times that of all the other British colonies in the Caribbean region combined, but of its 90,000 square miles only some 198 are under cultivation. Except for a few scattered ranches on the savanas in the mountainous southwestern part of the colony, the cultivated lands lie along the coast and up the lower reaches of the principal rivers. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/dominica.htm Dominica is a superb example of an elaborately dissected, composite volcanic island. It is 27 miles in length, north and south, and 12 miles in width--a grand mountain range of impressively bold forms rising from the sea to an altitude of 4747 feet. Receiving an abundant rainfall it is covered with luxuriant vegetation. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/dominica_bank.htm The bank adjoining Dominica is chiefly limited to the east coast, where it has a width of three or four miles. As that coast did not come under my observation, it is impossible for me to correlate the bank with the adjoining coastal features; but, from analogy with other islands, it may be inferred that offshore reefs have there had better opportunity of formation in the past than appears to have been the case on the west coast. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/honduras.htm Honduras, the only European possession on the mainland of Central America, has an area of about 8598 square miles, including 159 square miles in offshore islands and cays. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/martinique.htm Martinique (area: about 385 sq. mi.) is a rugged volcanic island formed on a platform of ancient crystalline rocks that have been covered by marine sediments and later overlaid with lava and other material from numerous volcanic centers. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/guadeloupe.htm Guadeloupe and its dependencies (total area ca. 690 sq. mi.) consist of the double island of Guadeloupe (583 sq. miles); the nearer dependencies, Marie-Galante (58 sq. mi.), Désirade (14.5 sq. mi.), Petite-Terre (1.5 sq. mi.), and Les Saintes (5-5 sq. mi.), which form a small archipelago of 11 islands and numerous reefs and islets lying within a radius of about twenty miles to the east, southeast, and south of Guadeloupe; and also St. Barthélemy (St. Bartholomew; 8.3 sq. mi.), 75 miles northwest of Guadeloupe, and the French part of the neighboring island of St. Martin (20 sq. mi.). weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/st_lucia_island.htm This beautiful island, on which I spent nine days, measures 23 by 12 miles across and is 3145 feet high. It gives clear indication of a composite origin, as well as of erosion and subsidence while a protecting reef, now vanished, encircled it and walled in the lagoon deposits which at present underlie the circuminsular bank. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/sea_cliffs.htm A paragraph may be here introduced in order to give fuller warrant for the conclusion that the headland cliffs of St. Lucia, as well as of several other islands, were cut during a time of greater emergence than now, because the cliff faces plunge beneath present sea level. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/st_lucia_st_helena.htm In order to emphasize the inference stated at the end of the second preceding section, a direct comparison may be made between St. Lucia and St. Helena, to supplement the general comparison already drawn between marginal-belt and cool-seas islands. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/st_lucia_cliffs.htm An alternative explanation nevertheless deserves consideration. It is probable that when the original volcanic cones of St. Lucia were young they were reefless, because the large quantity of detritus that was washed down by their streams must have then formed a cobble and gravel beach around the island shores, as has been shown above to be the case with the nearly reefless island of Reunion. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/minor_futures_of_st_lucia.htm Several details remain to be mentioned. The later lagoon deposits, which formed tile upper strata of the Preglacial lagoon floor around the greater part of the St. Lucia coast, must have encroached more and more upon the flanks of the subsiding island after whatever cliffs were cut around the shore in its youth were submerged; and such strata must therefore rest unconformably on the eroded volcanic slopes. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/st_lucia_forests.htm Just as the calcareous sands of the St. Lucia beaches afford proof of the Postglacial aggradation of the circuminsular bank, so the alluvial deposits of the St. Lucia delta plains afford proof of the Postglacial degradation of adjoining valley-side slopes, although they had been reduced to maturely graded forms at an earlier date and although they must surely have long been forest-covered. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/cultural_futures_of_st_lucia.htm St. Lucia would be an excellent subject for a detailed study of island anthropogeography. Its chief towns are all on bay-head delta fronts. The largest is Castries, on the half-mile delta of a bay of the northwest coast. The streets are laid out in small squares; many of the business houses are well built and of two stories, but the greater number of dwelling houses are small and of one story. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/st_vincent_island.htm St. Vincent, by 9 miles across and 4048 feet high, wholly of volcanic origin, is much more dissected in its older southern half than in the younger northern half, where eruptions of an active volcano, the Soufrière, took place in 1812 and in 1902. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/the_virgin_islands.htm The Virgin Islands, excepting the outlying member, St. Croix, which surmounts a small bank of its own farther south, rise from the largest bank of the Lesser Antilles. It extends 80 miles eastward from Porto Rico with a breadth of 25 or 30 miles. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/the_bays_of_st_thomas.htm No island enforces this conclusion better than St. Thomas. The submergence of valleys on its southwestern coast, has produced open bays which still have a considerable inland reach, although their heads are now occupied by delta flats; and it has isolated several hilly spur ends. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/norman_island.htm It was impossible for me to visit the other members of the Virgin group, as transportation among the islands is very defective; but the large-scale charts show that all the islands have embayed shore lines similar to that of St. Thomas. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/virgin_islands_cliffs.htm It is true that the cliffs of some of the small satellite islands, appear somewhat formidable when seen from a small boat near their base; and it is true also that in the abrasion of such cliffs a considerable fraction of the small islands has been consumed; hence, if the small islands alone were considered, abrasion might be assigned a considerable value in the production of the existing forms. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/virgin_islands_great_bank.htm The bank around the Virgin Islands is unlike any other bank thus far described, in that a considerable part of its area may be underlain by lowlands worn down on relatively weak continental rocks, remnants of which are seen in some slender islands north of the passage between St. Thomas and St. John, as well as farther east on some of the larger islands. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/anegana_island.htm That the shallower parts of the lagoon floor were somewhat planed down by low-level abrasion in the production of the present bank seems to be especially true in the eastern part of the bank, where the limestone island of Anegada now stands. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/virgin_bank_coral_reefs.htm The bay-head deltas and the cove-filling beaches of the Virgin Islands appear to be of Postglacial date, as are also the discontinuous coral reefs which now rise from certain parts of the bank towards or to sea level. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/st_croix_island.htm Little attention has been thus far paid to the work of earlier observers, because they have as a rule given only secondary consideration to the structural and physiographic features of the Lesser Antilles, upon which the discussion presented in the foregoing pages has been largely based. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/antigua_and_barbuda.htm It is believed that Antigua (pronounced Antíga by its inhabitants), 16 by 13 miles, 1330 feet high, is an island of such origin, and that it therefore exemplifies a well advanced stage in a second cycle of development following the final or atoll stage of a first cycle; for its beveled strata, dipping with considerable regularity 10° or 15° to the northeast, are volcanic below and calcareous above. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/other_tilted_islands.htm The tilting of an island ought not to be regarded as in any sense a peculiar, still less an abnormal phenomenon. It is simply the manifestation at the ocean surface of a tilting of the underlying sea floor, similar to the tilting of parts of continental areas as attested by the occurrence of faults or flexures in which formerly horizontal strata are inclined. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/geology_of_antigua.htm Antigua has fortunately been visited by a number of geologists, most recently by Earle, whose report, to which a bibliography is appended, furnishes the following details regarding the beveled strata and the probable conditions of their deposition. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/the_antigua_limestones.htm A deposit of gravels, including pebbles of lava and petrified wood, is placed by Earle between the tuffs of the medial lowland and the heavy series of overlying marls and limestone. "The heterogeneity of the deposit would point to its being a beach deposit laid down under the influence of strong currents and tides in an epoch of subsidence." weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/bays_and_cliffs_of_antigua.htm The work of abrasion, seen in the immature cliffs by which the headlands of Antigua are a little cut back, is very small as compared with the great work of erosion by which the island has been so well degraded. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/antigua_features.htm The delta plains by which many of the Antigua embayments have been much shortened, the beaches swinging in concave curves between the headlands-and composed of calcareous sands even where the headlands are made of volcanic rocks--and the discontinuous fringing and bank reefs charted around the island, all seem to have been largely formed in Postglacial time during and since the rise of the ocean to its present level. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/st_bartholomew.htm These three islands, each including both volcanic and calcareous rocks, surmount the western part of an extensive bank measuring 55 by 24 miles and having a smooth surface of moderate depth and a well defined border at 30 or 40 fathoms. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/french_guiana.htm French Guiana, the most easterly of the three Guianas, is the only French continental possession in the Americas. The colony is roughly rectangular in shape, comprising about 34,740 square miles. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/clipperton_island.htm Clipperton Island, a tiny, reef-fringed atoll 500 miles west of Costa Rica and 670 miles southwest of Acapulco on the Pacific coast of Mexico, has attracted a surprising amount of international attention. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/the_territory_of_curacao.htm The Territory has a total area Of some 384 square miles, or about a quarter that of Rhode Island. The islands form two groups lying at almost opposite ends of the curving chain of the Lesser Antilles. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/surinam.htm Surinam has an area of about 50,000 square miles, or approximately that of Wisconsin. The Territory may be divided into three main zones roughly parallel with the coast: a narrow, alluvial coastal plain 10 to 50 miles wide, a belt of "savanas" about 30 to 40 miles wide, and the littleknown hilly to mountainous region in the interior, which comprises most of the country. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/saba.htm Three small members of the Lesser Antilles in different stages of a simple sequence of first-cycle development may be first presented. I saw them only from passing steamers. Saba, the simplest island in the whole chain, represents an early stage. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/redonda.htm A solitary and uninhabited islet known as Redonda between Nevis and Montserrat, less than a mile in diameter and about 1000 feet in height, rises from an imperfectly charted bank, several miles across, with depths of 30, 40, or 50 fathoms. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/marie_galante_sombrero.htm Two simple examples of second-cycle islands may be adduced. The first is Marie Galante, a limestone island in the Guadeloupe group, nine miles in diameter, with a remarkably even profile at a height of 670 feet. As represented on H. O. Chart 363, the relief seems stronger than it would be inferred to be from the view of the island reproduced from a recent photograph by Mr. G. S. Miller, Jr., of Washington. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/montserrat_island.htm Several examples belonging in a more complicated sequence may now be presented, beginning with a composite island of easy analysis. Montserrat, nine by five miles across, was seen only from a steamer that passed near its western and northern coast; but five or six cones in different stages of erosion and hence of different dates of eruption were recognized. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/statia_and_st_kitts.htm The older cone of Statia is now a well dissected mass, a mile or more in diameter and 960 feet high, with a somewhat irregular and moderately cliffed shore line. It is overlapped on the southern side by the younger cone, two or three miles in diameter and 1950 feet high; the long concave slopes of this cone resemble those of Center Hill on Montserrat but are less dissected and less cut back along their shore. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/bank_depths.htm An important problem is opened up by the frequent recurrence of submarine banks, associated with marginal belt islands, which slope gradually seaward to depths of about 40 fathoms around their outer border; for that depth indicates that the detritus to be moved and the marine agencies for moving it are in adjustment with respect to present sea level. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/banana_trade.htm To those in world trade names of countries and regions suggest their products. It has always been so. The East Indies four hundred years ago meant spice; two hundred years ago China meant silks and tea; Canada meant fur. The Caribbean to Queen Elizabeth meant gold--it was the route of the treasure ships of Spain--to Washington it meant sugar and molasses, and to our children it will suggest bananas. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/trade_with_caribbean.htm Developments in Caribbean trade during the past generation have not failed to draw the attention of citizens of the United States to its rapidly changing economic conditions. Nevertheless, few realize that for the United States the growth of its imports and exports to this part of the world tends to bring the importance of this trade back toward a standard reached a century and a quarter ago. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/oil_on_the_caribbean.htm Another type of budget eatery in London is more difficult to describe. They have no distinguishing characteristics, except for the fact that they are individually-owned, extremely plain and simple, tiny in size, serve English food only, and are fantastically cheap. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/caribbean_diet.htm The scientific invasion of the tropics is not only grappling with disease but is revealing and exploring other major scientific problems, one of the chief of which is diet. Nutrition is a comparatively new field of research, for the analysis of regional diets and their influence on health and efficiency perforce awaited the development of biochemistry. Scientists, however, have now grasped the importance of the question. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/caribbean_clothing_and_housing.htm n many parts of the tropics white settlers suffer from poverty and its resulting evils, the whole process forming a vicious circle of distress. This is very evident as regards the comfort and the housing of white workers. Moreover, in many parts of the tropics the upper-class whites add to their difficulties by absurd conventions in dress. weekly 1 sitemap http://traveler-life.com/caribbean/caribbean_exercise.htm The scientific invasion of the tropics is exposing many fallacies. 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