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South Africa's Shamwari Game Reserve has won "World's Leading Safari & Game Reserve" award for the eleventh consecutive year at the prestigious World Travel Awards, held in the Turks and Caicos Islands this week, while also walking away with the first ever World Travel Green Awards' "World's Leading Conservation Company" award.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
We just got back from Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands. The total time that we were there was eleven days and we had a great time Here's how it is. It is a very clean and quiet island. The two main roads are Grace Bay Road which is where the vast majority of touristy things are and Leeward Highway. The latter is a very busy highway with very little to no sidewalk to walk on w
NPR Blogs: News & Views (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
A marine archaeologist compares the hull remains of known shipwrecks off East Caicos. REUTERS/NOAA For the first time, remains of a wrecked slave ship have been uncovered. Marine archaeologists located the ship off the Turks and Caicos Islands, where it sank in 1841. This accident set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands, as 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish...
Truemors (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Many residents of the Turks and Caicos islands have been given a forgotten part of their heritage with the discovery of the sunken slave ship, Trouvadore, which disappeared from Caribbean waters — and history — in 1841. The Spanish vessel is the only known discovery of a ship involved in the illegal slave trade, the [...]
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The World in 2009, according to The Economist. Why we can’t believe economic predictions, according to Slate. * Whack-A-Mouse. Kitties love arcade games, too! * The only known wreck of a slave ship has been found off the Turks and Caicos Islands. Descendants of the survivors still live on those islands. * The Ten Greatest Videos of Animals Playing Sports. All [...]
Archaeonews (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The ship hit a reef off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, freeing the 193 Africans aboard, researchers say. Texas researchers have discovered the wreck of the slave ship Trouvadore, which slammed into a reef off the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, freeing the 193 Africans who were being brought to the U.S. South for a life of servitude. It is the only known wreck of a ship
Archaeonews (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish ship Trouvadore off the British-ruled islands, where the slave trade was banned. Over the years the ship had been forgotten, said researcher Don Keith
Archaeonews (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Maritime archaeologists today announced they have recently identified the wreck of the historic slave ship Trouvadore off the coast of East Caicos in the Turks and Caicos Islands. NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research significantly funded several years of archaeological research leading to the discovery by Don Keith and Toni Carrell, from Ships of Discovery, an underwater archaeology
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
WASHINGTON | Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841.
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
WASHINGTON – Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans survived the sink
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841 an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of the islands.
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
(AP) -- Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, setting free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish ship Trouvadore off the British-ruled islands, where the slave trade was banned.
THE iPINIONS JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
[Author's note: No doubt many of you are aware of my ongoing efforts to help my compatriots in the Turks and Caicos Islands get rid of our corrupt and incompetent government. And even though I am pleased to report that a UK Commission of Inquiry is currently investigating all allegations in this respect, I feel obliged to publish this [...]
Koh Samui (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom, 11/07/2008 - Customer service has becomes extremely personalized in Turks and Caicos Resort Nikki ...
