| The Cayman Islands are overseas territory
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| | separate British overseas territory. At
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| of the United Kingdom in the eastern
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| | that time Jamaica also became an
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| Caribbean Sea. The islands are comprised
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| | independent commonwealth country.
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| of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little
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| | Just recently the island of Grand Cayman,
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| Cayman.
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| | was damaged by a severe Category Five
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| First visited and discovered by
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| | Hurricane, Ivan. Much was destroyed in
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| Christopher Columbus May 10, 1503 during
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| | September 2004 when Ivan ripped through
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| his fourth and final voyage to the New
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| | the area, Ivan damaged many buildings
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| World. After Colombus the first recorded
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| | many buildings and damaging nearly all.
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| English speaking visitor to the islands
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| | Ivan has been the worst hurricane to hit
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| was Sir Francis Drake. This was in 1586.
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| | the islands in over 85 years. Most of the
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| It is Francis Drake who named the islands
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| | infrastructure has now been restored in a
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| the Cayman Islands. The islands, as well
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| | rapid recovery.
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| as Jamaica, were granted to England in
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| about 1670 by the Treaty of Madrid. Until
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| | as you keep the following caption and
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| 1962, with Jamaica they were governed as
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| | author biography in tact with all
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| a single colony, when they became a
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| | hyperlinks.
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