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Synonyms for cay

a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida

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The Twin Cays mangrove, Belize, and related ecological systems: report from a workshop.
Residents of the 31 Miskito Coast villages, meanwhile, are working together to protect the Cays. This is not the first time they've had to defend their homeland: The Miskitos fought off successive Spanish governments and, in the 80s, were forced to take up arms against the Sandinistas during Nicaragua's nine-year civil war.
Only 20 minutes by water taxi or ferry from Marsh Harbour, Hope Town Harbour Lodge on Elbow Cay is perfect for overworked execs, who can spend Sundays looking out over the ocean while dining on a champagne brunch.
The researchers found many items unobtainable on the cay, such as gray obsidian, jade, chert, granite and mainland limestone.
The Bahamas is a coral-based archipelago of more than 700 islands and 2,500 cays sprinkled across 100,000 square miles of the Caribbean, with over 340 bird species and vital pockets of marine and coastal biodiversity.
I am happy to say that Little Grand Cay is alive and well and construction of more hotel rooms is underway.
The cay, which used to be under the control of the Philippines, lights up at dusk like "a small city." A Vietnamese frigate is always in the vicinity and visible from the Philippine-claimed Northeast Cay.
We undertook both a coarse-resolution study, designed to sample for the presence and diversity of placozoans in Belize, Bermuda, Grenada, Jamaica, and Panama, and a fine-resolution study, designed to sample for the presence and diversity as well as the distribution and abundance of placozoans in Twin Cays, Belize.
The lizard was believed to be extinct during the early twentieth century, but it was rediscovered in 1937 on Green Cay and Protestant Cay, two of the three islands.
Staking your claim for a private weeklong retreat on either of the cays will cost $15,000-a bargain considering that the whole island is yours to command and that up to six people can be accommodated.
In this paper, I report the results of a study on the ant species occupying an archipelago of small Bahamian cays, from both a classic island biogeographic approach and a metapopulation approach.
For many anglers, the action begins just 50 miles east of Florida, along the western edge of the Gulf Stream at the doorsteps of Cat Cay, Bimini and Grand Bahama.
Itineraries [ETH] all eight days long [ETH] include: The Bahamas [ETH] the Abaco Islands, including Great Guana Cay and Man-O-War Cay, and quaint towns such as Treasure Cay and Hope Town; French West Indies and Dutch Antilles [ETH] St.
Holland America takes visitors to Half Moon Cay, about 100 miles south of Nassau, in the Bahamas.