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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.
Map of Grand Cayman showing the Central Mangrove Wetland Map of Grand Cayman showing the locations of (left to right) the IBA sites of Booby Cay, Meagre Bay Pond, Pease Bay and Malportas Pond The Central Manrove Wetland is a large area of mangrove dominated wetland on Grand Cayman , one of the Cayman Islands , a British Overseas Territory in ...
In 1922, Moore Shipbuilding renamed to the Moore Dry Dock Company, operating primarily as a repair yard, amidst a severe lack of demand for new construction in the 1920s and early 1930s. Its shipbuilding capabilities were again promptly expanded for the World War II boom, providing over 100 ships for the U.S. Navy and merchant marine . [ 3 ]
Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the territory's capital, George Town. In relation to the other two Cayman Islands, it is approximately 75 miles (121 km) southwest of Little Cayman and 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Cayman Brac. Location of Grand Cayman (circled), south of Cuba and the Florida peninsula
The Cayman Islands dry forests ecoregion (WWF ID: NT0208) covers about half of the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean Sea. The other half of the low-lying islands are mangroves. The dry forests of Grand Cayman have been heavily cleared or degraded for human development; the less populated islands have more intact wooded habitat. [1] [2] [3]
Moore is the founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education [4] in Long Beach, California.. In 2008 the Foundation co-sponsored the JUNK Raft project, to "creatively raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution in the ocean", and specifically the Great Pacific Garbage Patch trapped in the North Pacific Gyre, by sailing 2,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean on a 30-foot-long (9.1 m ...
Cayman Brac features over 50 dive sites. The MV Capt. Keith Tibbets, the only Russian warship available to divers in the Western hemisphere, is located on Cayman Brac. [2] Cayman Brac also has an additional 11 dive sites reachable by shore. [2] On Little Cayman, 'Bloody Bay Wall' and 'Jackson Bay' are dive destinations.