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Cardinal chains lvl 976/13/2023 ![]() Barbados no longer observes Daylight Saving Time. Time zone īarbados is in the Eastern Caribbean Time Zone. Similar to Trinidad and Tobago to the southwest, the territorial Atlantic Ocean surrounding Barbados has been found to contain fossil fuels, however ongoing research is being conducted to give estimates of actual quantities. The south-eastern part of the island has undergone small scale oil and gas capturing from possibly as early as 1919 when the British Union Oil Company acquired over 75% of the drilling rights in Barbados. Both proposed islands would be a short distance from the Deep Water Harbour in Bridgetown. According to Paul Altman of Altman Realty the envisioned plan, would consist of two islands, one measuring 250 acres (1.0 km 2) in size, and would house new tourism based developments and upscale boutique shops while the second island would be 50 acres (200,000 m 2) in size, and would serve as an open national park. In 20, members of the upscale real estate industry in Barbados proposed the creation of artificial islands to be placed off the west coast. List of: Cities, towns and villages in Barbados. Also notable in the island is the rocky cape known as Pico Teneriffe or Pico de Tenerife, which is named after the fact that the island of Tenerife in Spain is the first land east of Barbados according to the belief of the locals. The rest of the island has few surface streams nevertheless, rainwater saturates the soil to produce underground channels such as the famous Coles Cave. Most of the small streams are in Scotland District. The soils vary in fertility erosion is a problem, with crop loss resulting from landslides, washouts, and falling rocks. Sugarcane is planted on almost 80 percent of the island's limestone surface. Eighty-five percent of the island's surface consists of coralline limestone twenty-four to thirty meters thick Scotland District contains outcroppings of oceanic formations at the surface, however. ![]() Farther south, at Christ Church Ridge, elevations range from sixty to ninety meters. Mount Hillaby is the highest point at 340 meters above sea level. Elevations in the interior range from 180 to 240 meters above sea level. The physical characteristics of Barbados are its lowlands or gently sloping, terraced plains, separated by rolling hills that generally parallel the coasts. Along the north–south axis Barbados has a maximum length of 34 kilometres (21 mi), and east–west maximum breadth of 23 kilometres (14 mi). Sometimes compared to a pear or leg of mutton for its physical shape. The coast of Venezuela, South America and Barbadosīarbados' total land area is 430 km 2 (166.0 sq mi), and it has a coastline of 97 km (60 mi) length. These neighbours include: Martinique, and Saint Lucia to the northwest, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the west, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela to the southwest, and Guyana to the southeast. To the west, most of Barbados' maritime boundaries consist of median lines with neighbours. A pending application to UNCLOS has placed for consideration a continental shelf 200 nmi (370.4 km 230.2 mi) to the east and south (or to the edge of the continental margin). ![]() Of the total EEZ area, 70,000 km 2 is set aside for offshore oil exploration. The maritime claim for Barbados is a territorial sea of 12 nmi (22.2 km 13.8 mi), with an exclusive economic zone of 200 nmi (370.4 km 230.2 mi) which gives Barbados a total maritime area of 186,898 km 2 (72,162 sq mi). As the easternmost isle of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, Barbados lies 160 kilometres (100 mi) east of the Windward Islands and Caribbean Sea. ![]() Barbados is a continental island in the North Atlantic Ocean and is located at 13☁0' north of the equator, and 59☃2' west of the Prime Meridian. ![]()
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