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Cayman Islands History

Cayman Islands History

  The Cayman Islands was first discovered on May 10, 1503 by Christopher Columbus in his fourth voyage to the new world. He first named the islands Las Tortugas, which was derived from the sea turtles he saw when he got there. On 1586, an Englishman Sir Francis Drake arrived in the islands and named it Cayman Islands, after the Neo-Taino nations. The islands were first under the Spanish rule [...]
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