Group of Florida islands named from the Spanish for turtles
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The Curious History Of Dry Tortugas National Park  He promptly named the islands Las Tortugas (the turtles). ... on its ill-fated voyage to the bottom of Havana harbor, helping ignite the Spanish-American War.
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Dry Tortugas - Wikipedia  The Dry Tortugas are a small group of islands, located in the Gulf of Mexico at the end of the Florida Keys, ... Bush Key, formerly named Hog Island because of the hogs that were raised there to provide fresh meat for the .... Turtles, because Ponce de Len, a Spanish explorer, saw several big sea turtles on the island.
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Tortuga - Wikipedia  Tortuga is the Spanish word for a turtle or tortoise. It may also refer to: Contents. [hide] ... Tortuga (Haiti), a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of ... Dry Tortugas, a group of islands in the Florida Keys in the United States; Dry ... Disambiguation pages  Place name disambiguation pages  Ship...
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Ponce de Len : Florida's First Spanish Explorer  Juan Ponce de Len was the first Spanish explorer to arrive in Florida. ... In 1506, Ponce de Len discovered a nearby island named Borinquen. ... turtles. He named the island Dry Tortugas because there was no fresh water on the island and...
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Dry Tortugas History | Learn About The Dry Tortugas  Tortugas means turtles in Spanish, and Ponce de Leon himself caught over 100 sea turtles during his time on the island. The name Dry Tortugas was later...
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Yakko's New World - Plato's Animaniacs Stuff  EDU (Robert Livingston Eichberger) writes: > there are a few countries that are ... Spanish word order), Tobago (Trinidad and Tobago), both Yemens (merged in ... Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Singapore,...
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ABC islands (Lesser Antilles) - Wikipedia  The ABC islands are the three western-most islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea that lie north of Falcn State, Venezuela. From west to east they are, in order Aruba, Curaao, and Bonaire. All three islands are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, although they ... self-governing constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while...
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the Bahamas facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  There are nearly 700 islands, of which about 30 are inhabited. ... sea turtle, hawksbill turtle, Allen Cays rock iguana, and Watling Island ground iguana. ... The population of Bahamas in 2005 was estimated by the United Nations ... Emigration to the United Kingdom, considerable in the past, has fallen off since the mid-1960s.
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History of the United States Virgin Islands - Wikipedia  The United States Virgin Islands, often abbreviated USVI, is a group of islands and cays in the ... He gave the islands their original Spanish names (Santa Cruz, San Tomas, and San Juan), focusing on religious themes. ... Columbus of Saint Ursula and her 11,000 virgin martyrs, inspiring the name Las Once Mil Virgenes.
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Galapagos 1 - Tenayatravels  Apr 17, 2010 ... Originally called the Enchanted Islands and now officially known as the Archipielago de Colon, most of us know these volcanic islands as the Galapagos Islands. ... most of the 19 islands, is about 600 miles from mainland Ecuador. ... Our first stop was at Isla Lobos, an island just offshore with shallow water...
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Science Explorations: Animals, Adaptation, and the Galpagos ...  Aniamals, Adaptation, and the Galapagos Islands Discover with Darwin ... The American Indian name "terrapin" usually refers to small freshwater turtles, ... Depending on the kind of turtle, this color may be brown, black, or olive green. ... The turtle's ribs are firmly fixed to the inside of its shell, so in order to breathe the turtle...
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All About Florida - Sheppard Software  There is some confusion as to where Florida got its name. It was either named after its ... florida" in Spanish). The state's official nickname is the "Sunshine State.
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Descriptions of the Galpagos Islands | IGTOA | Galpagos Islands ...  All of the animals in the Galpagos Islands arrived by swimming, floating, or flying; and it ... Crews stationed here patrolled the Pacific for enemy submarines and protected .... Best known for its colorful history, Floreana has seen the footsteps of .... barriers for the slow-moving reptiles; they were unable to cross the lava flows,...
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The Curious History Of Dry Tortugas National Park  He promptly named the islands Las Tortugas (the turtles). ... Orders were given to begin constructing Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas in 1846. ... water separating Key West from the islands have always constrained their recreational use. ... Thanks to the national-park status, many tourists from abroad now include the Dry...
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Ponce de Len : Florida's First Spanish Explorer  Juan Ponce de Len was the first Spanish explorer to arrive in Florida. ... He was in search of new lands and treasures. ... Since he had discovered this country of lavish landscape and beautiful beaches, he was entitled to name it. ... He encountered some rough currents at one point and named the area Cape Canaveral...
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Home to Unusual Creatures: The Galapagos - mission language lab  The islands are named for the giant tortoises that live there. Galapagos has been ... Many of these animals are found nowhere else in the world. The committee...
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Native Caribbean languages: A Taino Vocabulary  Sep 21, 2008 ... For example, the letter /x/ in archaic Spanish was used to represent the ... At the end of this paper I will refer you to a number of voluminous Tano .... Yaguasa /deudrocygna arboreas/ West Indian Great Blue Heron; originally this word was most likely .... Soko short posts that hold up the floor of the house.
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Galapablog  2 Dic 2014 ... As a general rule, saddleback tortoises are found on islands where ... in fact been an ancient Spanish word for tortoise for over 2,000 years, ... indicating that the saddles were in fact named so because of their ... Many people I talk to about Galpagos are surprised to learn that these islands are inhabited,...
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Game Show NewsNet  Apr 12, 2006 ... Final Jeopardy! in "US Territories": 5 of the 7 islands that make up this US territory are of volcanic origin; the other 2 are coral atolls. Correct...
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Charles Darwin Research Station | Isla Santa Cruz and around ...  ... about every tour of the islands sooner or later washes up at the Charles Darwin Research. ... Recent research has suggested tortoises from Espaola  another ... Rough Guide Audio Phrasebook and Dictionary - Latin American Spanish...
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Why Do They Call It Trinidad AND Tobago? | Mental Floss  Aug 31, 2013 ... Ol' Chris Columbus named the Trinidad portion of the island-nation duo Trinidad and ... after a Cathedral in Spain, Santa Maria La Antigua, but the name Barbuda, ... Nevis derives its name from the Catholic dedication, Nuestra Senora ... (So was the Caribbean island-nation, Grenada, but if that's a question...