Grand Turk | Turks and Caicos Islands

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Grand Turk is the largest of the Turks Islands. Together with Caicos Islands they form the archipellago of Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), one of the 14 British Overseas Territories.

Water Cay Island | Turks & Caicos Islands

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“TCI’s amazingly beautiful Water Cay is for sale as a private island? Interested? Contact Sotheby’s, who are handling the sale. The island will be yours for a pricey $36 million.

Water Cay is located to the northeast of our beautiful island of Providenciales, just beyond Little Water Cay, which itself is home to a beloved iguana sanctuary.” 

Turks and Caicos Islands: Middle Caicos

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Middle Caicos, also known as Grand Caicos, is the largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The Crossing Place Trail is a historical path that used to connect the communities on Middle Caicos and North Caicos. The trail ends at a Crossing Place Point. Here, at low tide, travellers were able to wade over to North Caicos.

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Part of a set of four stamps, Orchids of the Caribbean (2014).

Providenciales Island | Turks and Caicos Islands

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The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands. The population is about 31,000, of whom 23,000 live on Providenciales, the largest island in the archipelago.

 

Chalk Sound is a scenic turquoise lagoon on the southwest of Providenciales Island. It comprises hundreds of small rocky islands in shallow brilliant turquoise water.

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Part of a set of four stamps, Orchids of the Caribbean (2014)

Turks and Caicos Islands

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The Turks and Caicos Islands are located 550 miles southeast of Miami, Florida, just below the Bahamas. The islands consist of 40 islands and cays, eight of which are inhabited. The islands are home to 30,000 full time residents, and welcome more than 200,000 tourist annually.

In 1962 the Turks & Caicos became a British Crown colony and still is one today.

The name of the country comes from these earliest inhabitants: Taino and Lucayan Indians. Turks is a reference to the indigenous Turk’s head cactus and Caicos is from the Lucayan term “caya hico” meaning string of islands.

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The Margarita Murex, is a species of sea snail.