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Mount Gay North Stars Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in Crab Hill, Barbados.
康奈尔镇(英語:Connell Town)是加勒比海岛国巴巴多斯北海岸上的一座城镇,行政上由圣露西区管辖,位于布赖特霍尔和动物花洞穴之间的道路上,靠近里特里特。
Bottom Bay is a bay located in Saint Philip, Barbados, with Palmetto Bay to the north, and Cave Bay, Crane Beach and Sam Lord's Castle to the south.
Palmetto Bay is a cove located on the southeast coast of Barbados in the Parish of Saint Philip, between Bottom Bay and Kitridge Bay and located near the settlements of Coles Pasture and Apple Hall.
Cave Bay is located on the southeast coast of Barbados, between Long Bay and Bottom Bay. It is located in Saint Phillip Parish. There is a dangerous undertow in the area, however, there are no lifeguards.
St. Ann's Garrison, or more commonly known as "The Garrison", is a small district located in the country of Barbados. This Garrison Historic Area is situated about 3.2 km (2 mi) south of Heroes Square in the capital-city Bridgetown, and just west of the village of Hastings in the neighbouring parish of Christ Church. It is dominated by its historic horse racetrack, located on the 12 ha (30-acre) parade ground called the Garrison Savannah. The Garrison area additionally contains many historic buildings including barracks for military personnel. The district is bisected by Highway 7, with Saint Ann's Fort, where the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) is based, lying to the west.
World Heritage Site ID: 1376
Founded in 1966, the Saint Joseph Hospital is a medical facility now owned by the Government of Barbados. It is located in Ashton Hall area, which is located in the parish of Saint Peter. The hospital once served alongside the main general Hospital. The St. Joseph Hospital primarily served the northern parts of the island. In January 2011 it was announced the entire hospital was to be leased to overseas investors who had interest in it for medical tourism. The government later announced the investor to be Denver, Colorado-based American World Clinics ("AWC") under at least a 25-year lease.[1]
White Hill is a village in the parish of Saint Andrew in Barbados.
Six Men's Bay is a fishing village located to the south of Maycock's Bay in the northwest of Barbados, north of the town of Speightstown. Just off shore of the bay, in 18 metres (60 ft) of water, rests the 50 metres (165 ft) long wreck of a sunken freighter named Pamir (not the same as sailing vessel Pamir), a spot for scuba diving.
Three Houses is a small village in Saint Philip Parish in Barbados.
Turner's Hall Wood is a national forest and nature reserve in the parish of Saint Andrew in Barbados.
The City of Warrens, located in the parish of Saint Thomas, is one of the fastest developing areas in the country of Barbados. In the span of a few years beginning around the year 2000, the Warrens, Saint Thomas area has become synonymous with new money flowing into the country and for the development in the form of newly constructed tall buildings.
Woodbourne is a village in both the Parish of Saint Philip and Christ Church in Barbados. It is the area where most of the crude oil is being currently produced in Barbados, by the Barbados National Oil Company (BNOC). BNOC was established in 1983, when the Barbados Government bought out the interest of Mobil Oil.
The Port of Bridgetown (officially the Deep Water Harbour), (UN/LOCODE: BB BGI, Port Callsign: 8PB) is a seaport in Bridgetown on the southwest coast of Barbados. Situated at the North-Western end of Carlisle Bay, the harbour handles all of the country's international bulk ship-based trade and commerce. In addition to international-shipping the Deep Water Harbour is the port of entry for southern-Caribbean cruise ships. The port is one of three designated ports of entry in Barbados, along with the privately owned Port Saint Charles marina and the Sir Grantley Adams International Airport. The port's time zone is GMT −4, and it handles roughly 700,000 cruise passengers and 900,000 tonnes of containerised cargo per year.
website: http://www.barbadosport.com/
Sandy Lane is a luxury five-star beachfront resort close to Holetown and Paynes Bay on the island of Barbados. Sandy Lane was opened in 1961 by Ronald Tree, a former British politician, as a luxury hotel and golf course on what had been a sugar plantation. In 1998, the hotel was put up for sale by Granada plc, and five Irish businessmen, including J. P. McManus, Dermot Desmond and John Magnier, bought it. The original resort was then demolished in a three-year, $450 million upgrade and renovation.
website: http://www.sandylane.com/
The Wildey area of the Parish of Saint Michael located roughly 4 km east of Bridgetown, it lies on the border with the Parish of Christ Church. Normally a very busy area with the ABC Highway, Wildey is one of the main convergence points for vehicles travelling either towards the capital-city Bridgetown or towards points in northern Barbados. In recent years the area was reconfigured for traffic mitigation, the tri-directional split or fork in the highway formerly known as the "Wildey Y" was changed to only allow southbound traffic to turn left or right on to Wildey Road only. Northbound traffic must now travel on Wildey Road to Highway R road which brings traffic back to BET hill.
St. John Parish Church is an historic church building in Barbados. It is the first church of St. John that is presumed to have been a simple wooden building, but its date is unknown. The parish along with St. George, was carved out of St. Michael in 1640–1641. But successive churches were badly damaged by the hurricane of 1675, the Great Hurricane of 1780, and finally destroyed by the 1831 Barbados–Louisiana hurricane. The present church building (the fifth) was built in 1836, and the chancel added in 1876. It is the prototype of the restrained Barbadian version of the Gothic parish church, and a beautiful Westmacott sculpture, commemorating Elizabeth Pinder, on the left of the main door.
St. Margaret's Church is a church located in the parish of Saint John, Barbados. It was built in 1862.
The Alexandra School, affectionately known as the "Beacon of the North", is a secondary school in Speightstown, in the Saint Peter district of the Caribbean island of Barbados.
website: https://mrd.gov.bb/alexandra-school.php
The Scotland Beds is a geologic formation in Barbados. It preserves fossils of Falconoplax bicarinella and Palaeopinnixa perornata, dating back to the Early Eocene period.
Chimborazo is a populated place in the parish of Saint Joseph, Barbados. Chimborazo Hill in Chimborazo is one of the highest points in Barbados.
The Washington University of Barbados (WUB) is a defunct medical school which opened in 2017 and closed in 2018. The for-profit university received a charter from the Barbados Ministry of Education in 2016, but was unaccredited. Allegedly part of an international scam in which 200 students from India were conned out of ₹25 crore, the CEO and director of the school were arrested by the Royal Barbados Police and charged with fraud in 2018.
website: http://www.wubmed.org
Wildey Turf is a football stadium at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Complex, Wildey, Barbados.
Pico Teneriffe, is a rocky cape on the North-East coast of the island of Barbados, between the parishes of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew.
Branchbury is a populated place in the parish of Saint Joseph, Barbados.
The Barbados Railway was a 38.6-kilometre-long (24.0 mi) 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge railway on Barbados that was later converted to 762 mm (2 ft 6 in). It had 98 bridges, very tight radii and a steep incline. It was used from 1883 to 1937, after it had gone several times through financial difficulties.
Usain Bolt Sports Complex is a sports venue at the Cavehill campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados consisting of an IAAF certified track and FIFA certified football field. The complex comprises the Ryan Brathwaite track, the Obadele Thompson stand and the Kirani James stand, all prominent Caribbean athletes.
The High Commission of Canada in Barbados (French: Haut-commissariat du Canada à la Barbade) is Canada's main diplomatic mission to Barbados. The exact location is Bishop's Hill Court in Bridgetown, St. Michael. The auspices of the High Commission to Barbados also accredited to Eastern Caribbean counterpart islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as three British overseas territories: Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and Montserrat. It also includes consular and trade services for Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin and Sint Maarten.
Street address: Bishop's Court Hill, St. Michael, C.P. 404, Bridgetown (from Wikidata)
website: https://www.international.gc.ca/country-pays/barbados-barbade/bridgetown.aspx
Castle Grant is a populated place in the parish of Saint Joseph, Barbados.
Dodds Prison, previously called Her Majesty's Prison Dodds until the dissolution of the Barbadian Crown, is a prison in Barbados at Dodds, St. Philip. It was built as a replacement for HM Glendairy Prison, which has been permanently decommissioned.
website: https://www.gov.bb/government-main/departments/prison-department/
The COVID-19 pandemic in Barbados was a part of the COVID-19 pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The outbreak was identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019, declared to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The case fatality rate for COVID-19 has been much lower than for other coronavirus respiratory infections such as SARS and MERS, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.
The Windward Islands xeric scrub ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1317) covers the relatively small areas of the Windward Islands that receive low levels of precipitation. The dry areas of these islands are the low coastal areas that receive less precipitation. Because the dry scrub land is generally flat, near the coast, and not as obviously in need of conservation as the upland forests of the interior, they are more vulnerable to human settlement and development for agriculture.
Street address: U.S. Embassy Bridgetown Wildey Business Park 14006 (from Wikidata)
website: https://bb.usembassy.gov
The West Indies Federal Archives Centre is the official depository of records from the defunct West Indies Federation. The centre was opened in 2004, and is part of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in Barbados. Prior to the centre's opening, the West Indies archives were held by the Barbados National Archives.
website: http://www.wifac.org/
Farley Hill is a national park in Saint Peter, Barbados. It is on the site of Grenade Hall Plantation, established in the seventeenth century.
Bay Pasture was a cricket ground in Bridgetown, Barbados.
The Battle of Barbados also known as the Action of Carlisle Bay was a military action that took place off the Caribbean island of Barbados on 29 April 1665 just before the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. It was fought between an English force defending against an attacking Dutch force led by Michiel de Ruyter. Although De Ruyter destroyed much of an English convoy at Carlisle Bay his fleet was severely damaged and was unable to launch an invasion of the island.
The Platinum Coast is a stretch of powdery white sandy-beach located on the leeward side of Barbados. Located to the North of Holetown. Its area title has been broadened in more recent times to include much of the coastline of the parish of Saint James. The Platinum Coast is a spot consisting mostly of nouveau riche to the country of Barbados. Upscale hotels in the area include the Royal Westmoreland and Sandy Lane Beach resort where golfer Tiger Woods was married.
Cable and Wireless Sports Club Ground is a cricket ground in Bridgetown, Barbados.
The Desmond Haynes Oval (formerly known as the Carlton Club Ground) is a cricket and football ground in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Foursquare Park is a cricket ground in Highland, Barbados.
The Police Sports Club Ground (also known as Weymouth Playing Field) is a cricket ground in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Banks Holdings Sports and Cultural Club Ground was a cricket ground in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Pelican Island was a small uninhabited island that once existed off the west coast of Bridgetown and Fontabelle, in St. Michael, Barbados.
Clapham is a town located in the province of Christ Church, Barbados.
Newton Slave Burial Ground is an industrial heritage site and informal cemetery in Barbados. It was used by people enslaved at the adjacent Newton Plantation. The site has been owned by the Barbados Museum & Historical Society since 1993. It has been subject to excavations since the 1970s, which have produced information regarding slave lifeways including resistance, health, and culture.
Wotton is a town located in the province of Christ Church, Barbados. It is located about 10 km east of Bridgetown.
Bairds, Saint George, Barbados is a town in the province of Saint George, Barbados. Bairds is surrounded by Four Cross Roads, Welchman Hall, Bathsheba, Oistins and Bridgetown. The Sir Grantley Adams International Airport is about 10km from Bairds. The closest historic site in Barbados is Bridgetown which is also the capital of Barbados.
Windward Park is a cricket ground in Lucas Street, Barbados.
The Spring Garden Generating Station is a power station in Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados.
Barbados is an island nation in the Caribbean located in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and is the southern and easternmost island of the Caribbean region. It lies on the boundary of the South American and Caribbean plates. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.
website: https://www.gov.bb/; FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions): BB
The 2006 World Golf Championships-Barbados World Cup took place 7–10 December at the Sandy Lane Resort and Country Club in Barbados. It was the 52nd World Cup and the seventh and last as a World Golf Championship event. 24 countries competed and each country sent two players. The prize money totaled $4,000,000 with $1,400,000 going to the winning pair. The German team of Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem won. They defeated the Scottish team of Colin Montgomerie and Marc Warren at the first playoff hole.
The Battle of Barbados was fought in March 1778 during the American Revolutionary War. While escorting a fleet of American ships in the West Indies, the frigate USS Randolph was attacked by the British ship-of-the-line HMS Yarmouth. The following action resulted in America's most costly naval defeat, in terms of human lives, until the sinking of USS Arizona in 1941.
Barclays Park is a 50-acre village in the parish of Saint Andrew in Barbados. Barclays Park was opened in 1966 by Queen Elizabeth II after being gifted to the Barbados government once independence was declared in 1966.
Barbados National Archives are the national archives of Barbados. It is located in the northern Black Rock, St. Michael close to the University of the West Indies campus adjacent to the Usain Bolt Sports Complex. The collection includes manuscripts, letters, reports, books, maps, charts and photographs.
Bayfield is a village in Saint Philip Parish in Barbados. It has a pond in its center with masked ducks, green herons, common gallinules, and snowy egrets.
Blades Hill is a village in Saint Philip Parish in Barbados.
Greenland is a village in the parish of Saint Andrew in Barbados.
Freshwater Bay is located between Paynes Bay and Carlisle Bay in Bridgetown, in the southwest of Barbados. Its name comes from the large number of streams that deposit fresh water into the ocean at the location.
Marchfield is a village in Saint Philip Parish in Barbados.
Chalky Mount is a rugged picturesque range of hills in Saint Andrew, Barbados, forming a jagged profile against the horizon when viewed from the east coast - commonly called Napoleon's Head.
Foul Bay refers to a bay, beach, and village in Saint Philip Parish, alongside the southeast coast of Barbados.
Charles Duncan O'Neal Bridge is a bridge in Bridgetown, Barbados. It is one of two bridges over the Careenage, the other being the Chamberlain Bridge, although unlike the Charles Duncan Bridge it does not take traffic. It is named after Charles Duncan O'Neal who founded the radical Democratic League in 1924. Since 2013, the bridge has been featured on the reverse of the $10 Barbadian dollar bill.
Drax Hall Estate is a sugarcane plantation situated in Saint George, Barbados, in the Caribbean.
The Indian River was a river of Barbados. It was located in the Spring Garden area, in the parish of St. Michael.
Cherry Tree Hill is a village in the parish of Saint Andrew in Barbados. It is approximately 850 ft. above sea level. It is believed that cherry trees lined the hill before Sir John Alleyne, 1st Baronet, who introduced mahogany to Barbados, planted the impressive mahogany avenue leading to Cherry Tree Hill. The village overlooks the Scotland District.
Francia Great House is a historical plantation great house in Saint George, Barbados. It is on a wooded hillside near Gun Hill Signal Station.
Crane Bay is located on the southeast coast of Barbados, between Foul Bay and Long Bay.
The Garfield Sobers Gymnasium (or occasionally the "Wildey Gym") is one of the main government-owned indoor sporting facilities located in the country of Barbados. Able to accommodate close to 5,000 people, it is situated northeast of the ABC Highway within the Sir Gary Sobers Sports Complex.
Glendairy Prison, also called Her Majesty's Prison, was the correctional facility located in the country of Barbados. The prison, which housed up to 1,000 male and female inmates, was located in Station Hill, St. Michael.
The Garrison Savannah in the country of Barbados, is a horse racing venue located within the Garrison Historic Area, just outside the capital-city Bridgetown. A clockwise grass course, the Garrison Savannah is known internationally for the annual Barbados Gold Cup for Thoroughbreds which takes place on the six-furlong track around the perimeter of the green.
Ilaro Court (pronounced: il'larō kôrt) is the official residence of the prime minister of Barbados. State House is the official residence of the President of Barbados.
The Parliament of Barbados is the national legislature of Barbados. It is accorded legislative supremacy by Chapter V of the Constitution of Barbados. The Parliament is bicameral in composition and is formally made up of two houses, an appointed Senate (Upper house) and an elected House of Assembly (Lower house), as well as the president of Barbados who is indirectly elected by both. Both houses sit in separate chambers in the Parliament Buildings (commonly known as "The Public Buildings"), in the national capital Bridgetown in Saint Michael.
website: https://www.barbadosparliament.com/
The CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) is a regional standards body for the Caribbean Community CARICOM-bloc of countries formed by agreement in 2002 in Belize City, Belize. The body is presently headquartered in Bridgetown, Barbados. It replaced a prior regional institution known as the Caribbean Common Market Standards Council (CCMSC) formed in 1976.
The Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) is the national monetary authority and central bank responsible for providing advice to the Government of Barbados on banking and other financial and monetary matters. The Central Bank operates as the banknote issuing authority for Barbadian currency.
website: http://www.centralbank.org.bb
Street address: Lower Collymore Rock (from Wikidata)
website: https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-high-commission-barbados
Street address: Lower Collymore Rock, St Michael BB11000 (from Wikidata)
website: https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/countries-and-regions/americas/barbados/
在バルバドス日本国大使館(ざいバルバドスにほんこくたいしかん、英語: Embassy of Japan in Barbados)は、バルバドスの首都ブリッジタウンの都市圏セント・マイケル教区にある日本の大使館。
Street address: Building 2, Chelston Park, Collymore Rock (from Wikidata)
website: https://www.bb.emb-japan.go.jp
Street address: Lucerne Building, The Courtyard, Hastings (from Wikidata)
website: https://ebarb.cancilleria.gob.ar
Scotland District är ett naturområde som på ön Barbados östra sida, ett område som utgör cirka 20 procent öns totala landarea. Området kan liknas vid en halvskål bestående av det sluttande höglandsområdet med en tät och delvis djungellik vegetation, något som är en stark kontrast till resten av ön som till största delen utgörs av ett öppet och platt jordbrukslandskap.
website: https://www.biumed.com/
Cherry Tree Hill är en kulle på Barbados. Den ligger i parishen Saint Peter, i den norra delen av landet, 19 km norr om huvudstaden Bridgetown. Toppen på Cherry Tree Hill är 260 meter över havet.
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash killed every member of the Cuban national fencing team.
Maycock's Bay is located between Six Men's Bay and Harrison Point in St. Lucy, the northwest of Barbados. It is on the west coast of the island to the north. The area has multiple cliffs extending from Bird Rock to Archers Bay and from Stroud Bay to Maycocks Bay.
Blue Waters is a populated place in the parish of Christ Church, Barbados. It is a coastal area located on the south coast of Barbados. Rockley Beach is a beach located in Blue Waters.
Welches is a populated place in the parish of Christ Church, Barbados. It is a coastal area located on the south coast of Barbados. Welches Beach .
Cane Vale is a populated place in the parish of Christ Church, Barbados.
Women's Bay is located in the south of the island of Barbados, to the east of the nation's southernmost point, South Point. it is also known as Silver Sands.
The Chase Vault is a burial vault in the cemetery of the Christ Church Parish Church in Oistins, Christ Church, Barbados, best known for a widespread urban legend of "mysterious moving coffins". According to the story, each time the heavily sealed marble vault was opened for the burial of a family member, including in 1808, twice in 1812 and in 1816 and 1819, all of the lead coffins had changed position. The facts of the story are unverified; investigations have concluded there may not be actual events at the base of the legend.
Miami Beach, Barbados, near the town of Oistins, is a popular sandy beach in Barbados. It is located on the south coast of the island, with usually calm waters and brilliant sunset views. On its north side is Enterprise Beach, a much more sheltered bay popular with families. Miami Beach is popular with both locals and tourists. Each morning local seniors swim in the sea and exercise on the beach. Also a great break for bodysurfing and bodyboarding.
Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary occupies 42 per cent of the Ramsar wetland at Graeme Hall, in Christ Church, Barbados. It is currently managed by the Barbados Wetlands Trust and the Protector of the Trust is Anthony Da Silva. The Trust was formed by Da Silva in late 2024 and the property was purchased in December 2024.
Hastings is a small village and beach resort in the parish of Christ Church, Barbados on the island's south-western coast. It has beautiful white sandy beaches and is often a location for surfing on the island. Barbados' longest boardwalk, Richard Haynes Boardwalk currently starts from here, and runs Eastward to the nearby community of Rockley. A Courtyard by Marriott hotel is located in Hastings.There is also a Hotel Indigo, on the beach in Hastings
Long Bay is located on the southeast coast of Barbados, between Crane Bay and Cave Bay.
Oistins Bay is a hamlet located southeast of Carlisle Bay, close to the southernmost point of Barbados, South Point.
L’église Saint-Dominique est une église située à Welches à la Barbade, que l’Église catholique rattache au diocèse de Bridgetown en tant qu’église paroissiale.
Maxwell Beach är en strand på Barbados. Den ligger i parishen Christ Church. Stranden ligger längs Barbados sydkust, 8 km sydost om huvudstaden Bridgetown.