Barbados
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 Barbados facts

• It is 34 kilometres (21 miles) in length and up to 23 km (14 mi) in width, covering an area of 432 km2 (167 sq mi)
• It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 km (62 mi) east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about 168 km (104 mi) east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and 400 km (250 mi) north-east of Trinidad and Tobago
• Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic hurricane belt
• Its capital is Bridgetown
• Barbados is 1,600 mi (2,600 km) Southeast of Miami
• Inhabited by Kalinago people since the 13th century, and prior to that by other Amerindians, Barbados was visited by Spanish navigators in the late 15th century and claimed for the Spanish Crown
• It first appeared in a Spanish map in 1511
• The Portuguese visited the island in 1536, but they left it unclaimed, with their only remnants being an introduction of wild hogs for a good supply of meat whenever the island was visited
• An English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados in 1625; its men took possession of it in the name of King James I
• In 1627, the first permanent settlers arrived from England, and it became an English and later British colony