Geography Project Part 3

Barbados

• Barbados is one of the Islands surrounding the Caribbean Sea.
•  It was originally colonised by the Spanish in the late 1400's. 
• The first English  ship called the "Olive Blossom" arrived in Barbados in 1624. They took possession of it in the name of the British king James I. Two years later in 1627 the first permanent settlers arrived from England and it became an English and later British colony.
•  Barbados has a population of 284,000 people. Its Capital and largest city is called Bridgetown, and has a population of 80,000 people living there.
• In 1966, Barbados became an independent state, but remained under the British Commonwealth.
• Barbados is one of the Caribbean's leading tourist destinations and is one of the most developed islands in the region.

Source:tropicalparadise.net

Source:weltrekordreise.ch