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unusual facts about leeward



Amelioration

Amelioration Act 1798, a statute enacted in the Leeward Islands regarding the treatment of slaves

British Virgin Islands cricket team

A British Islands cricket team first appeared in West Indian cricket in the 1991 Leeward Islands Tournament against the United States Virgin Islands at the Lionel Roberts Stadium, Charlotte Amalie.

Esquel

Owing to its location on the immediate leeward side of the Andes, Esquel has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb), though it is much more continental than the more classic Mediterranean zones of central Chile, and frosts and even snow are common in the winter months from April to September.

Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary

It is an example of the coastal swamps which once dotted the leeward coast of Barbados from Speightstown to Chancery Lane.

Lifa

Leeward Islands Football Association, an association of the football playing nations in Leeward archipelago

Michael Fitton

Houx afterwards equipped a brig, which he named Revanche de la Superbe, and sent an invitation to Fitton to meet him at a place named; however, before the message arrived Fitton had been superseded as captain by the 17-year old Thomas John Cochrane, son of admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, who was then commanding officer of the Leeward Islands station.

Montserrat cricket team

However, he would not become the islands first first-class cricketer, as William Duberry had played for the Leeward Islands in February 1967.

Saint Anne Sandy Point Parish

The finished product will include the La Vallée Golf Course, a marina and port facility for transport to the northern Leeward Islands (Statia, Saba, St. Barths, St. Martin, and Anguilla),Villa developments, and a state of the art sporting facility.

Short-billed Miner

Geositta antarctica migrates as far north as Mendoza during the autumn and winter seasons, but keeps to arid areas, and it is most numerous on heavily grazed grassland on the leeward side of Tierra del Fuego.

Sleep It Off Lady

"The Bishop's Feast": A home-born returnee is invited by an old nun to witness the enthronement of a new Bishop in Roseau, before spending a week on Dominica's leeward coast.

William Payne-Gallwey

Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 1st Baronet (1759–1831), British soldier and Governor of the Leeward Islands

Windward and leeward

For this reason, rule 12 of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea stipulates that the windward vessel gives way to the leeward vessel.


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