Posted
on October 27, 2013
Today
is a national holiday for yet another of those Caribbean island
nations that it's so hard to keep track of!
This
one has a long name for a small country, because it is made up of a
small island called St. Vincent and a bunch of smaller isles that
make up about two-thirds of the Grenadine islands! (The rest of the
Grenadine islands make up the nation of Grenada.) Adding all the
islands together, this nation is maybe one-sixth of the smallest
state in the United States, Rhode Island.
At
any rate, on this date in 1979, St. Vincent and the Grenadines became
independent of the United Kingdom!
Catch
some cool views of the beauties of this island nation with this long video. (Just watch as much as you have time for and interest in, of course!)
The
Caribbean is...
Did
you know that the Caribbean Sea is named for one of the main groups
of native people who were living on the islands when the Spaniards
discovered them in 1492? The Caribs also lived in northern South
America in a region now part of Venezuela.
The
Caribbean is famous for piracy...as you probably know from the whole
Disney “Pirates of the Caribbean” thing. Why do you suppose there
was so much piracy in that region from 1650 to 1720? I'm thinking
that there were so many islands, many of them controlled by
different, warring groups of native and European peoples, that it was
easy to (for example) hide Spanish pirates that attacked English
ships, and vice versa. With thousands of islands and even uninhabited
islets, it would be really hard to police all the harbors and
coastlines in order to arrest the pirates and get back their booty!
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