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Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island.
Port Royal. Port Royal is a town located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest and most prosperous city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and commerce in the Caribbean Sea by the latter half of the 17th century. [1]
Rail transport in Jamaica. Kingston railway station, closed since 1992, as seen in 2007. The railways of Jamaica were constructed from 1845, making it the second British colony to receive a railway system, following Canada in 1836 with the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad. [1][2] Construction started only twenty years after the Stockton ...
Kingston 12. Trench Town (also Trenchtown) is a neighbourhood located in the parish of St. Andrew, part of which is in Kingston, the capital and largest city of Jamaica. Today Trench Town is the location of the Trench Town Culture Yard Museum, a National Heritage Site presenting the unique history and contribution of Trench Town to Jamaica.
Abraham Elias Issa CBE OJ (October 10, 1905 – November 29, 1984) was a Jamaican businessman, entrepreneur and hotelier acclaimed as "The Father of Jamaican Tourism". [1] As the first president of the Jamaica Tourist Board he contributed to the expansion of Jamaican tourism in the late 1950s. His business accomplishments include the founding ...
Nanny's Monument is located in Moore Town, Portland, Jamaica. [33] Nannyville Gardens, a residential community located in Kingston, Jamaica, was founded in 1977 and named after her. The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University in the United States uses Nanny's portrait in its logo.
Kingston is the name of several places in the world. The most populated places named Kingston are: Kingston, Jamaica (population 580,000) Kingston upon Hull, England (population 260,200) City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia (population 158,129) Kingston, Ontario, Canada (population 132,485) Kingston upon Thames, England (population 43,013)
Kingston Harbour. Kingston Harbour in Jamaica is the seventh-largest natural harbour in the world. [1] It is an almost landlocked area of water approximately 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) long by 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) wide. [1] Most of it is deep enough to accommodate large ships, even close to shore. [1] It is bordered to the north by the city of ...