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Waves at St. Margaret's Bay in 2013 St. Margaret's Bay is a town in Portland Parish , Jamaica . [ 1 ] It is located on the Northern Coastal Highway to the west of Port Antonio .
Portland, with its capital town Port Antonio, is a parish located on Jamaica's northeast coast. It is situated to the north of St Thomas and to the east of St Mary in Surrey County . It is one of the rural areas of Jamaica, containing part of the Blue Mountains , where the Jamaican Maroon communities of Moore Town and Charles Town are located.
Port Antonio was a settlement first established in Spanish Jamaica, when it was known as Puerto Anton. [1] Portland formally became a parish in 1723 by order of the Duke of Portland, the then-Governor of Jamaica after whom it is named. The existing port was to be called Port Antonio and was slated to become a naval stronghold.
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St. Margaret's Bay may refer to: In Canada. St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia on the South Shore of Nova Scotia; St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia (administrative district), a political division; Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia; In England. St. Margaret's Bay, Kent; In Jamaica. St. Margaret's Bay, Jamaica
Ken Jones Aerodrome (IATA: POT, ICAO: MKKJ) is an airport located 10 km (6.2 mi) west of Port Antonio, in northeastern Jamaica. The facility is named after Jamaican civil servant and politician Kenneth Arthur Newton Jones. It serves tourist resorts in the area and local travel. [1] Ken Jones Aerodrome handled approximately 8,546 passengers in 2001.
List of bays and coves of Jamaica: A bay is a body of water forming an indentation along the shoreline of a landmass, larger than a cove (i.e. Jade Cove) but smaller than a gulf (i.e. The Gulf or The Gulf of Mexico) Cagway Bay; Orange Bay (Hanover Parish) Orange Bay (Portland Parish) Xtabi; The following are bays in Jamaica: Buff Bay; i Montego Bay
The west side of the Aspotogan Peninsula was first settled primarily by Germans from Rose Bay, while the east side of the Aspotogan was settled by the French, crossing St. Margaret's bay from French Village. [15] Part of the German tradition that remained on the Peninsula until the end of the 20thcentury was the export of sauerkraut. Zinck p. 43-48