When was the island of Trinidad Discovered?
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it is unclear when it was settled by the first native americans. however, it was discovered by europeans in 1498, by means of christopher columbus.
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June 4th 1971\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kabila
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In Pre-Columbian times, the archipelago known as the British Virgin Islands was settled by tribal groups migrating from South America in ocean-going dugout canoes. First came the Arawakan-speaking Taino Indians, followed by the Caribs from whose name the word Caribbean is derived. These islanders lived as subsistence fisherman and farmers; they had strong community structures and highly developed skills in pottery and other handicrafts. \n\nColumbus discovered the islands in 1493 on his second voyage to the West Indies and named them "Las Once Mil Virgines," from the legend of St. Ursula and her 11,000 martyred virgins. Over the centuries that followed, Europeans all but exterminated the tribal people, leaving only the handful that survive today.  \n\nhttp://www.guana.com/natural-history/history.htm
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Lewis and Clark found what was in the Lousiana Purchase. They found the Pacific Ocean.\n\nOcian in View! O! the Joy"\n~William Clark, Nov. 7, 1805
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Certainly Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad has large offshore reserves and most of the major oil companies are present there. Barbados has a small oil production industry. Cuba also has some oil reserves. The three combined have 1.74 billion barrels of proven oil reserves and 28.4 Tcf of natural gas. Trinidad and Tobago 990 billion barrels of oil reserves and about 26 Tcf of the natural gas reserves. Cuba is second in reserves in the Caribbean with 750 million barrels of oil reserves and 2.5 Tcf of natural gas. Jamaica, Grenada and the Bahamas have all tried to generate interest in exploration from oil companies.  So far the Bahamas have leased nine offshore blocks covering 6.5 million acres but no wells have been drilled as seismic data is being acquired.
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Discovered by: Sir Humphrey Davy, Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, L.J. Th&„nard \n\nDiscovered at: England, France \n\nBoron compounds have been known for thousands of years, but the element was not isolated until 1808 by Sir Humphry Davy, Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) and Louis Jaques Thénard (1777-1857). This was accomplished through the reaction of boric acid (H3BO3) with potassium.
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Africa, Caribbean islands, North American seaports
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Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is a nation in the southern Caribbean Sea, situated 11 km (7 miles) off the coast of Venezuela. It lies between 10° 2' and 11°12'N. Lat., and 60°30' and 61°56' W Long.\n\nThe average length of Trinidad is 80 km and its average width is 59 km. Tobago is 41 km long and 12 km at its greatest width.\n\nThe country is an archipelagic state[1] consisting of two main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and 21 smaller islands with a total area of 5,128 km² or 1,864 mi². The estimated population for July, 2006 is 1,065,842.\n\nThe larger and more populated island is Trinidad, while Tobago is smaller (303 km² or 116 mi²; about 6% of the total area) and less populous (50,000 people; or 5% of the total population). Citizens are officially called Trinidadians or Tobagonians or Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, but Trinidadians are informally referred to as Trinis and both Trinidadians and Tobagonians are called Trinbagonians.
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yes, its a island in the caribbean
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May 10, 1954\n\nhttp://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9343590?tocId=9343590
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Trinidad and Tobago - Stadiums in Port of Spain, Malabar, Couva, Marabella and Bacolet.
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I am guessing it is Trinidad and Tobago.
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The recorded history of Haïti began when the island of Hispaniola was discovered by Christopher Columbus in December 1492. It was at that time inhabited by the Arawak (or Taíno), a Native American people, who called the island Haiti. Columbus established a small settlement near Cap-Haïtien, but, when he returned in 1493, the settlers had disappeared, presumably killed. He claimed the whole island for Spain, and left his brother Bartholomew Columbus to find a new settlement.\n\nFollowing the arrival of Europeans, Haïti's indigenous population suffered near-extinction, in possibly the worst case of depopulation in the Americas. This demographic collapse has been attributed by many to deliberate genocide on the part of the Spanish. The Catholic priest and contempory historian Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote in his multi-volume History of the Indies (1527-61):\n\nThere were 60,000 people living on this island (when I arrived in 1508), including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this? \nIt is thought by many historians today that Las Casas's figures for the pre-contact levels of the Arawak population were an exaggeration and that a figure of slightly over a million original inhabitants is more likely. The high mortality in Haïti can be attributed at least in part to murder, forced labour and repression, but experience elsewhere suggests that the loss was largely the result of the introduction of Old World diseases, to which the inhabitants had no resistance.\n\nSpanish interest in Hispaniola began to wane in the 1520s, as more lucrative gold and silver deposits were found in Mexico and South America. Thereafter the population of Spanish Hispaniola grew slowly. Fearful of pirate attacks, the king of Spain in 1606 ordered all colonists on Hispaniola to move closer to the capital city, Santo Domingo. This backfired, as British, Dutch and French pirates then established bases on the island's abandoned northern and western coasts.\n\nFrench settlement of the island began in 1625, and, in 1664, France formally claimed control of the western portion of the island. By the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, Spain officially ceded the western third of Hispaniola to France. France named its new colony Saint-Domingue.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Colonial Saint-Domingue \n2 The Revolutionary Period \n3 Political struggles \n4 Foreign intervention \n5 Renewed dictatorship \n6 The Aristide era \n7 See also \n8 References \n \n\n\n[edit]\nColonial Saint-Domingue\nFrench planters established numerous sugar and coffee plantations, making Saint-Domingue the "Pearl of the Antilles" – one of the richest colonies in the 18th century French empire. By the 1780s, Saint-Domingue produced about 40 percent of all the sugar and 60 percent of all the coffee consumed in Europe. This single colony, roughly the size of Maryland or Belgium, produced more sugar and coffee than all of Britain's West Indian colonies combined.\n\nDuring this period, an estimated 790,000 African slaves were brought to work on sugarcane and coffee plantations (accounting in 1783-1791 for a third of the entire Atlantic slave trade), though inability to maintain slave numbers without constant resupply from Africa meant that at its end the population numbered only about 500,000, ruled by some 32,000 Whites. At all times, a majority of slaves in the colony were African-born, as the brutal conditions of slavery prevented the population from experiencing growth through natural increase[1]. African culture thus remained strong among slaves to the end of French rule.\n\nSaint-Domingue also had the largest and wealthiest free population of color in the Caribbean, a group also known as the gens de couleur. The royal census of 1789 counted roughly 25,000 such persons. Typically they were the descendants of the enslaved women that French colonists took as mistresses. Th
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1).  "Columbus made a fourth voyage nominally in search of the Strait of Malacca to the Indian Ocean. Accompanied by his brother Bartolomeo and his 13-year-old son FERNANDO, he left Cádiz, Spain on May 11, 1502, with the ships Capitana, Gallega, Vizcaína and Santiago de Palos. "\n\n2).  "Ferdinand Columbus (Italian: Fernando Colombo, Spanish: Fernando Colón, Córdoba, Spain, 15 August? 1488 - Sevilla, Spain, 1539) was the second son of Christopher Columbus. His mother was Beatriz Enriquez de Harana, whom his father never married, but who was Columbus' constant companion in later life.\n\nFernando was born in Cordoba, and spent his early years there with his mother. After Columbus's triumphant return from his first voyage, Fernando was appointed a page to the Spanish crown prince Don Juan, but transferred to the service of Queen Isabella following the young prince's untimely death.\n\nBetween the ages of 13 and 15, Fernando was a crewmember on Columbus' fourth voyage to the New World. After his father's death, Fernando accompanied his older brother Diego to the New World in 1509 upon Diego's appointment as governor of Hispaniola. But Fernando preferred a more settled life, and returned to Spain a few months later."\n\nHope that's enough (  :
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I'd say the chances are really good. There was a 3.1 earthquake on May 06, 2006 about 20 miles SW of Trinidad, Colorado (190 miles south of Denver).\n\nBetween August 28 and September 21, 2001 there was a swarm of 12 measuring from 2.8 to 4.6 near Trinidad.
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Actually, it was Christopher Columbus who "discovered" Jamaica, though it was already there and inhabited.
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Yahoo News Search on the topic of volcanos doesn't turn up anything in the Caribbean.\n\nThere's news today 2/10 of tracking Augustine in Alaska.  But that's pretty far from the Caribbean.\n\nhttp://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=volcano&c=\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/fc/Science/Earthquakes_and_Volcanoes/\n\nI did a Yahoo Search for february 9 2006 volcano caribbean\nand found more information on the\n\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv1-&p=february%209%202006%20volcano%20caribbean\n\nMontserrat Soufriére Hills Volcano\n\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=february+9+2006+volcano+montserrat&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-&x=wrt\n\nI agree, the news media at large has not done a great job of reporting this info.  \n\nThanks for the pointer.  I'd give you the 10 points if I could.