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Geographic Locations > Islands > West Indies > Barbados
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > West Indies > Barbados
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > West Indies > Barbados
Geographic Locations > Americas > Caribbean Region > West Indies > Barbados

Preferred term

Barbados  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • an island in the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies

Scope note

  • An island in the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. It is chiefly of coral formation with no good harbors and only small streams. It was probably discovered by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century. The name was given by 16th-century Spanish explorers from barbados, the plural for "bearded", with reference to the beard-like leaves or trails of moss on the trees that grew there in abundance. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p116 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p49)

History note

  • 75

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001460

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