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Barbados (island) |
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| Lat: 13 10 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 13.1667 decimal degrees |
| Long: 059 32 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -59.5333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Most easterly of Caribbean islands. Island situated about 100 miles (160 kilometres) east of the Windward Islands; it is roughly triangular in shape. Forms territory of the nation of the same name. |
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| Barbados (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Barbade (C,O)
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| Los Barbados (H,O)
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............ | named by Portuguese in 15th cen., for the bearded fig trees that grow here |
| Barbadian (C,O,English,U,A)
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Barbados .......... (nation) |
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(World, North and Central America) [7004770] |
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