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Schoolchildren enjoy holding the Queen's Baton, in Grace Bay, Turks and Caicos Islands, Wednesday 16 April 2014. Turks and Caicos Islands is nation 56 of 70 nations and territories the Queen's Baton will visit.
Provo Roadrunners relay the Queen's Baton, in Grace Bay, Turks and Caicos Islands, Wednesday 16 April 2014. Turks and Caicos Islands is nation 56 of 70 nations and territories the Queen's Baton will visit.
The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Caribbean Sea and northern Caribbean region.
The first recorded European sighting of the islands now known as the Turks and Caicos occurred in 1512. In the subsequent centuries, the islands were claimed by several European powers with the British Empire eventually gaining control. For many years the islands were governed indirectly through Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. When the Bahamas gained independence in 1973, the islands received their own governor, and have remained a separate autonomous British Overseas Territory since.
The eight main islands and more than 299 smaller islands have a total land area of 616.3 square kilometres (238.0 sq mi),[b] consisting primarily of low, flat limestone with extensive marshes and mangrove swamps and 332 square kilometres (128 sq mi) of beach front. The weather is usually sunny and relatively dry, but suffers frequent hurricanes.
Some 60 species of coral live in the waters off the Turks & Caicos. Hard coral varieties include staghorn, elkhorn, pillar, star, and brain. Sea fans, sea whips, and sea plumes number among the soft varieties.
Barrier reefs of coral running parallel to the shore protect the Islands from wave action and stabilize the islands’ plateau edges. Inshore of the barrier reefs, patch reefs range from a few hundred square feet to several acres.
The Queen's Baton carried by the Salem Baptist Junkanoo Group, in Grand Turk Island, Turks and Caicos Islands, Thursday 17 April 2014. Turks and Caicos Islands is nation 56 of 70 nations and territories the Queen's Baton will visit.
We bought these big conch shells for a dollar from a little conch stand in a Lucayan market, and were pleased to be able to get them home through Canadian customs with no trouble.
Schoolchildren wave and cheer for the arrival of the Queen's Baton in Grand Turk Island, Turks and Caicos Islands, Thursday 17 April 2014. Turks and Caicos Islands is nation 56 of 70 nations and territories the Queen's Baton will visit.
Face paint is cool, face paint is good.
The Lucayan Indians did it and so did we.
Heathcliff wears ceremonial face paint.
HE Governor Peter Beckingham relays the Queen's Baton, in Grace Bay, Turks and Caicos Islands, Wednesday 16 April 2014. Turks and Caicos Islands is nation 56 of 70 nations and territories the Queen's Baton will visit.
The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Caribbean Sea and northern Caribbean region.
The first recorded European sighting of the islands now known as the Turks and Caicos occurred in 1512. In the subsequent centuries, the islands were claimed by several European powers with the British Empire eventually gaining control. For many years the islands were governed indirectly through Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. When the Bahamas gained independence in 1973, the islands received their own governor, and have remained a separate autonomous British Overseas Territory since.
The eight main islands and more than 299 smaller islands have a total land area of 616.3 square kilometres (238.0 sq mi),[b] consisting primarily of low, flat limestone with extensive marshes and mangrove swamps and 332 square kilometres (128 sq mi) of beach front. The weather is usually sunny and relatively dry, but suffers frequent hurricanes.
Some 60 species of coral live in the waters off the Turks & Caicos. Hard coral varieties include staghorn, elkhorn, pillar, star, and brain. Sea fans, sea whips, and sea plumes number among the soft varieties.
Barrier reefs of coral running parallel to the shore protect the Islands from wave action and stabilize the islands’ plateau edges. Inshore of the barrier reefs, patch reefs range from a few hundred square feet to several acres.
This is the most common type of habitat seen when driving around. Very similar to Florida scrub pine with the long leafed pines and palmetos, but the agaves and ferns make it different at the same time.