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

Preferred term

Trinidad and Tobago  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Tobago
  • Trinidad

Scope note

  • An independent state in the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, north of Venezuela, comprising the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Its capital is Port of Spain. Both islands were discovered by Columbus in 1498. The Spanish, English, Dutch, and French figure in their history over four centuries. Trinidad and Tobago united in 1898 and were made part of the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago in 1899. The colony became an independent state in 1962. Trinidad was so named by Columbus either because he arrived on Trinity Sunday or because three mountain peaks suggested the Holy Trinity. Tobago was given the name by Columbus from the Haitian tambaku, pipe, from the natives' habit of smoking tobacco leaves. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1228, 1216 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p555, 547)

History note

  • 79; was TRINIDAD 1966-78

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014300

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