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Flat Point
Flat Point (or Flat Point Peninsula) is an area on the northeastern coast of Saba (island), Saba, an island in the Dutch Caribbean. It is located in the lower part of the Zion's Hill, Hell's Gate village, known as Lower Hell's Gate. Flat Point is the location of Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, the Flat Point Tide Pools, Tide Pools, ruins of a 17th-18th century Sugarcane, sugar and Indigofera, indigo plantation, and Cove Bay (Saba), Cove Bay. History Flat Point was formed during volcanic activity about 5,000 years ago. A large Lava, lava flow flowed down the northeast side of the island into the ocean, forming the Flat Point peninsula as it cooled. Humans would not occupy the area for at least another 3,000 years. Flat Point was occupied by Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Amerindians sometime between 400 A.D. and 800 A.D. Survey (archaeology), Archeological surveys carried out by Ryan Espersen uncovered Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Amer ...
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Flat Point Tide Pools
The Flat Point Tide Pools (or Saba Tide Pools) are located on the coast of Saba, in the Dutch Caribbean. They are located on the Flat Point peninsula Lower Hell's Gate. These tide pools feature large lava rock formations filled with colorful saltwater pools. The site was formed during volcanic activity about 5,000 years ago. A large lava flow went down the northeast side of the island into the ocean, forming the Flat Point peninsula as it cooled. Today the Flat Point Tide Pools are home to diverse marine life, and are a popular hiking location. The site is accessible via the Flat Point Trail below Saba's airport. Hiking The tide pools are a popular hiking location, and can be reached by the Flat Point Trail. The trail access is located on road going from Saba's airport to Cove Bay. The trail passes by the ruins of an indigo boiling house, that was part of a 17th-18th century sugar and indigo plantation (referred to as "Flat Point Plantation" by archeologists). The hike is a ...
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Saba (island)
Saba is a Caribbean island and the smallest Caribbean Netherlands, special municipality (officially "Public body (Netherlands), public body") of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands. It consists largely of the dormant volcano Mount Scenery, which at is the highest point of the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands. The island lies in the northern Leeward Islands portion of the West Indies, southeast of the Virgin Islands. Together with Bonaire and Sint Eustatius it forms the Caribbean Netherlands, BES islands, also known as the Caribbean Netherlands. Saba has a land area of . The population was 2,158 in January 2025, with a population density of . It is the smallest territory by permanent population in the Americas. Its towns and major settlements are The Bottom (the capital), Windwardside, Zion's Hill, and St. Johns, Saba, St. Johns. Etymology Theories about the origin of Saba's name include ''List of indigenous names of Eastern Caribbean islands#Leeward Islands, siba'' (t ...
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Boilery
A boilery or boiling house is a place of boiling, much as a bakery is a place of baking. Boilery can also mean the process and equipment for boiling. Although they are now generally confined to factories, and usually boil industrial products rather than food, historically they were more common in daily life. Boileries are typically for boiling large quantities of fluid. In the 17th to 19th centuries, boileries were used to convert sugarcane juice into raw sugar. These boileries were usually sturdy places, built from stone, and contained several copper kettles, each with a furnace beneath it., Sugarcane juice was treated with lime in large clarifying vats, before it was heated in copper kettles over individual furnaces. Due to their importance, many Western sugar plantations had their own boileries on site. Soap would also be made in a boiling house. Another use for a boilery is to make salt through the evaporation of brine Brine (or briny water) is a high-concentratio ...
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Tabebuia Heterophylla
''Tabebuia heterophylla'' is a species of tree native to the Caribbean, and is also cultivated elsewhere. It is also known as roble blanco, pink manjack, pink trumpet tree, white cedar, and whitewood. Description ''Tabebuia heterophylla'' grows up to 20 to 30 feet tall. Leaves are opposite and palmately compound with five or fewer leaflets. ''T. heterophylla is considered brevi decidius''. Flowers are showy pink, tubular and five lobed (2 to 3 inches long). The flowering time is spring and summer. Its fruit is a seedpod, it splits along 2 lines to shed the numerous thin light brown seeds (1/2 to 1 inch long with 2 white wings). Flower anatomy The flowers of ''Tabebuia heterophylla'' are in an inflorescence of the umbellate type. It is a perfect and complete flower with radial (actinomorphic) symmetry, and the whorls of the corrolla and the calyx are connately joined. The ovary is superior with an axile placentation, two locules and two carpels. Distribution and habitat The t ...
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Pilosocereus
''Pilosocereus'' (from Latin, "hairy cereus") is a genus of cactus native to the Neotropics. Tree cactus is a common name for ''Pilosocereus'' species. The genera ''Caerulocereus'' and ''Pseudopilocereus'' are synonyms of this genus. The commonly cultivated ''Pilosocereus pachycladus'' (Synonym (taxonomy), syn. ''Pilosocereus azureus'') is a blue cactus with hairy areoles that emit golden spines. When mature, most species develop a hairy lateral cephalium either white, golden, brown, or golden brown. A noteworthy example of an exception to this rule is that of ''Pilosocereus pentaedrophorus''. Generally, tubular flowers emerge year-round from the hairy cephalium. These flowers emit off-putting smells attracting flies and bats for pollination. Flowers come in white, pink, and purple too. Generally, ''Pilosocereus'' flowers are self pollinating, but there may be exceptions. After pollination, globose fruits an inch or bigger form. When ripe, they split and reveal their red pulp. '' ...
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Kalanchoe Pinnata
''Kalanchoe pinnata'', commonly known as cathedral bells, air plant, life plant, miracle leaf, Goethe plant, and love bush, is a succulent plant native to Madagascar. It is a popular houseplant and has become naturalized in tropical and subtropical areas. The species is distinctive for the profusion of miniature plantlets that form on the margins of its leaves, a trait it has in common with some other members of '' Bryophyllum'' (now included in ''Kalanchoe''). It is a succulent, perennial plant, about tall, with fleshy cylindrical stems and young growth of a reddish tinge, which can be found in flower throughout most of the year. Description The leaves of this species are thick, fleshy, elliptical in shape, curved, with a crenate or serrated margin, often reddish. Simple at the base of the stem, the leaves are imparipinnate at the top, long, with three to five pairs of fleshy limb lobes. The leaves are remarkable for their ability to produce bulbils. At their margin, betwe ...
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Croton (plant)
''Croton'' is an extensive plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. The plants of this genus were described and introduced to Europeans by Georg Eberhard Rumphius. The common names for this genus are rushfoil and croton, but the latter also refers to '' Codiaeum variegatum''. The generic name comes from the Greek ('), which means "tick" and refers to the shape of the seeds of certain species. Description ''Croton'' is a diverse and complex taxonomic group of plants ranging from herbs and shrubs to trees. A well-known member of this genus is '' Croton tiglium'', a shrub native to Southeast Asia. It was first mentioned in European literature by Cristóbal Acosta in 1578 as "". The oil, used in herbal medicine as a violent purgative, is extracted from its seeds. Currently, it is considered unsafe and it is no longer listed in the pharmacopeia of many countries. Taxonomy Uses Food uses Cascarilla ('' C. eluteria'') bark is used to flavour the liquors Campari and ...
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Pyroclastic Rock
Pyroclastic rocks are clastic rocks composed of rock fragments produced and ejected by explosive volcanic eruptions. The individual rock fragments are known as pyroclasts. Pyroclastic rocks are a type of volcaniclastic deposit, which are deposits made predominantly of volcanic particles. 'Phreatic' pyroclastic deposits are a variety of pyroclastic rock that forms from volcanic steam explosions and they are entirely made of accidental clasts. 'Phreatomagmatic' pyroclastic deposits are formed from explosive interaction of magma with groundwater. The word ''pyroclastic'' is derived from the Greek , meaning fire; and , meaning broken. Unconsolidated accumulations of pyroclasts are described as tephra. Tephra may become lithified to a pyroclastic rock by cementation or chemical reactions as the result of the passage of hot gases (fumarolic alteration) or groundwater (e.g. hydrothermal alteration and diagenesis) and burial, or, if it is emplaced at temperatures so hot that the soft gla ...
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Tide Pool
A tide pool or rock pool is a shallow pool of seawater that forms on the rocky intertidal shore. These pools typically range from a few inches to a few feet deep and a few feet across. Many of these pools exist as separate bodies of water only at low tide, as seawater gets trapped when the tide recedes. Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the sun and moon. A tidal cycle is usually about 25 hours and consists of two high tides and two low tides. Tide pool habitats are home to especially adaptable animals, like snails, barnacles, mussels, anemones, urchins, sea stars, crustaceans, seaweed, and small fish. Inhabitants must be able to cope with constantly changing water levels, water temperatures, salinity, and oxygen content. At low tide, there is the risk of predators like seabirds. These pools have engaged the attention of naturalists and marine biologists, as well as philosophical essayists: John Steinbeck wrote in '' The Log from the Sea of Cortez'', "It is advisa ...
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Andesite
Andesite () is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition. In a general sense, it is the intermediate type between silica-poor basalt and silica-rich rhyolite. It is fine-grained (aphanitic) to porphyritic in texture, and is composed predominantly of sodium-rich plagioclase plus pyroxene or hornblende. Andesite is the extrusive equivalent of plutonic diorite. Characteristic of subduction zones, andesite represents the dominant rock type in island arcs. The average composition of the continental crust is andesitic. Along with basalts, andesites are a component of the Geology of Mars, Martian crust. The name ''andesite'' is derived from the Andes mountain range, where this rock type is found in abundance. It was first applied by Christian Leopold von Buch in 1826. Description Andesite is an aphanitic (fine-grained) to porphyritic (coarse-grained) igneous rock that is intermediate in its content of silica and low in alkali metals. It has less than 20% quartz and 10% feldspa ...
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Basalt
Basalt (; ) is an aphanite, aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the planetary surface, surface of a terrestrial planet, rocky planet or natural satellite, moon. More than 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt. Rapid-cooling, fine-grained basalt is chemically equivalent to slow-cooling, coarse-grained gabbro. The eruption of basalt lava is observed by geologists at about 20 volcanoes per year. Basalt is also an important rock type on other planetary bodies in the Solar System. For example, the bulk of the plains of volcanism on Venus, Venus, which cover ~80% of the surface, are basaltic; the lunar mare, lunar maria are plains of flood-basaltic lava flows; and basalt is a common rock on the surface of Mars. Molten basalt lava has a low viscosity due to its relatively low silica content (between 45% and 52%), resulting in rapidly moving lava flo ...
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