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Brasil was a replacement for Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. 's SS Brazil (1928). Brasil and her sister ship, Argentina, used MARAD Design P2-S2-9a.Construction was subsidized by the United States Maritime Administration under title V, sections 501 and 504 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. [1]
The Cayman Islands (/ ˈ k eɪ m ən /) is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population.The 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
Malportas Pond is a salt-water pond on the north coast of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, near North Side village. [1] It has an area of 44 hectares (110 acres) [2] or 52 hectares (130 acres), [3] and like the nearby Rock and Point ponds, it is an important area for breeding waterfowl. [3]
The Cayman Islands Coast Guard is the maritime security and search and rescue agency of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands. It was formed in late 2018 under the umbrella of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service and was officially made as its own entity in 2021.
Archaeological studies of Grand Cayman have found no evidence that humans occupied the islands prior to the sixteenth century. [2]The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake in 1586, who reported that the caymanas were edible, but it was the turtles which attracted ships in search of fresh meat for their crews.
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Little Cayman is one of three Islands that make up the Cayman Islands. It is located in the Caribbean Sea, approximately 60 miles (96 km) northeast of East End, Grand Cayman and five miles (8 km) west of West End, Cayman Brac. Little Cayman is the least populous island of the three, with a permanent population of about 160 (2021) including ...
The Cayman Islands are a British dependency and island country. It is a three-island archipelago in the Caribbean Sea , consisting of Grand Cayman , Cayman Brac , and Little Cayman . Georgetown, the capital of the Cayman Islands is 438 km (272 mi) south of Havana , Cuba , [ 1 ] and 504 km (313 mi) northwest of Kingston, Jamaica , [ 2 ...