Barbados
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BARBADOS
| Barbados | |
 Barbados | |
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| Capital: | Bridgetown |
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| Language: | English, Barbadian Creole |
| Currency: | Barbadian dollar |
| Time Zone | UTC-4 |
| More notes about the country | |
Background
Barbados is low lying island with its highest peak only 336 m (1102 ft.) high. It has an area of 431 km2 and 279,254 inhabitants. It is the easternmost Caribbean island. It is an independent state and member of the British Commonwealth.
The name Barbados comes from a Portuguese explorer named Pedro Campos in 1536, who originally called the island Los Barbados ("The Bearded Ones"), upon seeing the appearance of the island's fig trees, whose long hanging aerial roots he thought resembled beards. Between Campos' sighting in 1536 and 1550, Spanish conquistadors seized many Caribs on Barbados and used them as slave labor on plantations. Other Caribs fled the island, moving elsewhere. The British colonized the island in the 1600s where they established plantations of sugar cane. To work the plantations they imported many slaves from Africa. This went on until 1834 when slavery was abolished in the British Empire. The island gained its independence in 1966.
Climate & Weather
The climate is tropical, moderated by northeast trade winds; dry season November to May, rainy season June to October.
Sources of weather forecasting:
- Weather on Line Detail 7 day forecast charts for the Atlantic.
- Wind GURU A surfer's site with worldwide wind forecasts.
- Navtex Broadcasts List of all the Navtex broadcast times and frequencies (not kept up to date).
Charts
- BA 956 Guadeloupe to Trinidad
- BA 2485 Approaches to Barbados
- NIMA 25485 Approaches to Barbados
- Imray-Iolaine B2 Barbados
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Local Radio Nets
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Arrival/Departure procedures
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Immigration, Visas & Customs
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Immigration
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Customs
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Ports & Popular Stops
- Bridgetown (Port of entry)
- Port St Charles (Port of entry)
- Other Anchorages
Offshore Islands
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Health & Security
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Cruiser's Friends
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References & Publications
- Jimmy Cornell World Cruising Handbook International Marine, Camden, Maine
- Ashley Scott and Nancy Scott Caribbean Marinas & Services, The Cruising Guide, Duredin, FL
- Chris Doyle Sailors Guide to the Windward Islands, The Cruising Guide, Duredin, FL
- W. T. Stone and A. M. Hays A Cruising Guide to the Caribbean, Sheridan, New York
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