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Tortuga Island (other)
Tortuga, Tortuga Isle, or Tortuga Island may refer to: * Tortuga (Haiti), a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti * La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, an uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea * Tortuga Island (Galapagos), Ecuador, an uninhabited island in the Galapagos Archipelago * Tortuga Island, Baja California Sur, Mexico, a volcanic island in the Gulf of California * Tortuga Island, Peru, a small island in Department of Ancash, Peru * Dry Tortugas, a group of islands in the Florida Keys in the United States ** Dry Tortugas National Park, a national park consisting of Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas * Isla Tortuguero, an island in Costa Rica * La Tortue, Saint Barthélemy, a small island in the French Caribbean * Tortuga Isle, a safe haven for fugitive pirates, featured prominently in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' (2003) * Las Tortugas, the name given by Christopher Columbus to Little Cayman and Cayman Brac See also * Tortuga (disambiguat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tortuga (Haiti)
Tortuga Island (, ; ; , , 'Turtle Island') is a West Indian island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola. It constitutes the ''commune'' of Île de la Tortue in the Port-de-Paix arrondissement of the Nord-Ouest department of Haiti. Tortuga is in size and had a population of 25,936 at the 2003 census. In the 17th century, Tortuga was a major center and haven of Caribbean piracy. Its tourism industry and references in many works have made it one of the most recognized regions of Haiti. History The first Europeans to land on Tortuga were the Spanish in 1492 during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus into the New World. On December 6, 1492, three Spanish ships entered the Windward Passage that separates Cuba and Haiti. At sunrise, Columbus noticed an island whose contours emerged from the morning mist. Because the shape reminded him of a turtle's shell, he chose the name of Tortuga. Tortuga was originally settled by a few Spanish colonists un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tortuga Island
La Tortuga Island (; "La Tortuga" means literally "the turtle") is an uninhabited island of Venezuela, the largest in the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is part of a group of islands that include the Tortuguillos and Cayo Herradura. Isla La Tortuga has an area of . History The island was visited by Amerindians from the coast of present-day Venezuela to exploit its natural resources including salt, fish and turtles, well before Spanish colonization of the New World. It is not known by which European explorer the island was first seen and named, yet the name derives from the large numbers of marine turtles that come to lay eggs on its long sandy beaches every year. The island was seasonally visited by the Dutch who came there to exploit the salt evaporation ponds on the east of the island between 1624 and 1638. They constructed a fort on the island to guard their salt works and repel the Spanish who were eager to keep the Dutch off the island. They were definitively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tortuga Island (Galapagos)
Tortuga, Tortuga Isle, or Tortuga Island may refer to: * Tortuga (Haiti), a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti * La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, an uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea * Tortuga Island (Galapagos), Ecuador, an uninhabited island in the Galapagos Archipelago * Tortuga Island, Baja California Sur, Mexico, a volcanic island in the Gulf of California * Tortuga Island, Peru, a small island in Department of Ancash, Peru * Dry Tortugas, a group of islands in the Florida Keys in the United States ** Dry Tortugas National Park, a national park consisting of Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas * Isla Tortuguero, an island in Costa Rica * La Tortue, Saint Barthélemy, a small island in the French Caribbean * Tortuga Isle, a safe haven for fugitive pirates, featured prominently in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' (2003) * Las Tortugas, the name given by Christopher Columbus to Little Cayman and Cayman Brac See also * Tortuga (disambiguat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tortuga Island, Baja California Sur
Isla Tortuga (Tortuga Island) is an island in the Gulf of California, created relatively recently in geologic terms by the volcanism associated with the East Pacific Rise. It lies east-northeast of the city of Santa Rosalía, in Mulegé Municipality. It has a surface area of 11.374 km2 (4.39 sq mi). (in Spanish). Biology The Tortuga Island rattlesnake (''Crotalus tortugensis'') is a |
Tortuga Island, Peru
Tortuga is the Spanish word for a turtle or tortoise. It may also refer to: Geography * Tortugas, Argentina, a town in Santa Fe Province, Argentina * Tortuga (Haiti), a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti * Tortugas Banks, coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary * Tortuga Bay, a bay on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos * Tortuga Island (other) * Dry Tortugas, a group of islands in the Florida Keys in the United States * Freeport Tortuga, a free port project on Tortuga, Haiti, during the early 1970s Art, entertainment, and media * Tortuga (''Breaking Bad''), a fictional drug dealer in the AMC-TV drama, ''Breaking Bad'' * '' Tortuga: Pirates of the New World'', a computer game set in the ''Golden Age of Piracy'' era * Tortuga, a fictional aircraft in the children's television show '' Wild Kratts'' * Tortuga Isle, a safe haven for fugitive pirates, featured prominently in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' (2003) * ''Tor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Ancash
Ancash (; ) is a department and region in western Peru. It is bordered by the departments of La Libertad on the north, Huánuco and Pasco on the east, Lima on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its capital is the city of Huaraz, and its largest city and port is Chimbote. The name of the region originates from the Quechua word ('light, of little weight'), from ('blue') or from ('eagle'). Geography Ancash is a land of contrasts: it features two great longitudinal valleys, which combine the mountain characteristics of the Callejón de Huaylas (Alley of Huaylas) with the sylvan ones of the Alto Marañón. Kilometres of sandy beaches and the blue waters of the Pacific. The territory of the coast, high plateaux and Andean '' punas'' of the department are flat, while the rest of the territory, in the Andes, is very rough. In the west, there are slopes with strong declivity form narrow canyons with abrupt and deserted sides. The rough territory of the department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dry Tortugas
Dry Tortugas National Park is a national park of the United States located about west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States. The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the several Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most isolated of the Florida Keys. The archipelago's coral reefs are the least disturbed of the Florida Keys reefs. The park is noted for abundant sea life, tropical bird breeding grounds, colorful coral reefs, and shipwrecks and sunken treasures. The park's centerpiece is Fort Jefferson, a massive but unfinished coastal fortress. Fort Jefferson is the largest brick masonry structure in the Western Hemisphere, composed of more than 16 million bricks. Dry Tortugas is unique in its combination of a largely undisturbed tropical ecosystem with significant historic artifacts. The park is accessible only by seaplane or boat and has averaged about 63,000 visitors annually in the period from 2008 to 2017. Activities include snorkeling, picnicking, birdw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Tortuguero
Isla or ISLA may refer to: Organizations * International Securities Lending Association, a trade association * International School of Los Angeles * International Bilingual School, later named International School of Los Angeles People * Isla (given name) * Víctor Isla, Peruvian politician and a Congressman representing Loreto for the 2006–2011 term * Mauricio Isla, Chilean football player Music * ''Isla'' (Portico Quartet album), a 2009 album by Portico Quartet Places *Isla, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Banana, Australia * Mt. Izla, location of ancient Christian monasteries, on the border between Turkey and Syria * Isla (Cantabria), a village in the Spanish region of Cantabria * River Isla, Perthshire, a tributary of the River Tay in Perthshire, Scotland; flows through Glen Isla and Strathmore * River Isla, Moray a tributary of the River Deveron in North-East Scotland; flows through Keith in Banffshire * Senglea, Isla (Senglea), a fortified city in the east of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Islands Of Costa Rica ...
This is a list of islands of Costa Rica. There are about 79 islands in Costa Rica. Islands The islands of Costa Rica include the following:Archive See also * Geography of Costa Rica * List of Caribbean islands References {{North America topic, List of islands of * Islands Costa Rica Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tortue, Saint Barthélemy
La Tortue ou l'Ecalle, Île Tortue or Turtle Island is a small rocky islet off the north-eastern coast of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean. Its highest point is above sea level. Referencing tortoises, it forms part of the Réserve naturelle nationale de Saint-Barthélemy with several of the other northern islets of St Barts. Important Bird Area The island has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports breeding colonies of royal terns and laughing gulls, as well as a few pairs of red-billed tropicbird The red-billed tropicbird (''Phaethon aethereus'') is a tropicbird, one of three closely related species of seabird of tropical oceans. Superficially resembling a tern in appearance, it has mostly white plumage with some black markings on the wi ...s. References Important Bird Areas of Saint Barthélemy Environment of Saint Barthélemy Seabird colonies Islands of Saint Barthélemy {{SaintBarthélemy-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curse Of The Black Pearl
''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' (originally titled ''Pirates of the Caribbean'') is a 2003 American fantasy swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures via the Walt Disney Pictures label, the film is based on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disney theme parks and is the first film in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' series. Starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley, it follows pirate Jack Sparrow (Depp) and the blacksmith Will Turner (Bloom), as they attempt to rescue the kidnapped Elizabeth Swann (Knightley). The trio encounters Captain Hector Barbossa (Rush) and the ''Black Pearl'' crew who are afflicted by a supernatural curse. Executives at Walt Disney Studios drafted a rough treatment for the film in 2000. A script was developed by Jay Wolpert in 2001, and was rewritten by Stuart Beattie in early 2002. Around that time, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
