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The island of Grenada and port Saint-Georges in 1776. An aerial photo of the capital St George's. St. George's was founded by the French in 1650 when "La Grenade" was colonised by Jacques Dyel du Parquet, the governor of Martinique. The French began their colonisation with a series of skirmishes that virtually exterminated the island's native ...
Saint George is also the home of the world-famous Grand Anse Beach and many of the island's holiday resorts. The peninsula at the south-western tip of Saint George is called Point Salines, and the only active airport on the island of Grenada, Maurice Bishop International Airport, is located there. The tourist infrastructure is more extensive in ...
Grenada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n eɪ d ə / ⓘ grə-NAY-də; Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad, ) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about 100 miles (160 km) north of Trinidad and the South American mainland.
Grenada and its largely uninhabited outlying territories are the most southerly of the Windward Islands. [1] The Grenadine Islands chain consists of some 600 islets; those south of the Martinique Channel belong to Grenada, while those north of the channel are part of the nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. [1]
Map of Grenada St. George's, Capital of Grenada. This is a list of towns, villages and populated places in Grenada. Grenada is an island nation in the south-eastern Caribbean Sea. It consists of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.
St. George's University School of Medicine is the medical school of St. George's University located in St. George's, Grenada. The school was founded by Charles R. Modica on July 23, 1976. Because of its size, the school placed more doctors into first-year US residency positions than any other medical school in the world between 2011 and 2012. [1]
The Grenada National Cricket Stadium, formerly Queen's Park, is a cricket ground on River Road, St George's, the capital of Grenada.A Grenada cricket team is first recorded in West Indies cricket in 1887, playing against a touring Gentlemen of America team at the original Queen's Park ground.
The Caribbean island country of Grenada is divided into regions known as parishes. [1]A parish defines a territorial unit or region that, historically, was usually an area under the pastoral care served by a local church as an ecclesiastical administrative unit (see Parish) and later used by map-makers to set boundaries to an area of land.