Cabrits National Park

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Cabrits National Park
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location Saint John ; Dominica
Geographical location 15 ° 35 ′  N , 61 ° 28 ′  W Coordinates: 15 ° 35 ′ 10 "  N , 61 ° 28 ′ 23"  W
Cabrits National Park (Dominica)
Cabrits National Park
Setup date 1986
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Cabrits National Park is situated on a peninsula at the north end of the Caribbean - island Dominica , north of Portsmouth . The park comprises 1,313 acres (531 ha) of tropical forests, coral reefs and wetlands. Originally there was a British garrison at Fort Shirley . The national park was established in 1986.

Surname

"Cabrits" is the Spanish , French and Portuguese term for goats . Goats had been left on the island by seafarers so that fresh meat would be available the next time they landed.

geography

Cabrits is an extinct volcano with two cones that originally formed its own island off the coast of Dominica. The narrow and shallow inlet was filled in by debris and alluvial deposits from Douglas Bay and Prince Rupert Bay. The national park is an important sanctuary for the island's reptiles . All but four species of reptile are represented on the hills and in the adjacent wetland.

Fort Shirley

Fort Shirley was an 18th century British military outpost defending Dominica's north. The fort consisted of more than 50 buildings and housed more than 600 men. It was abandoned in 1854 and the local historian Lennox Honychurch did not restore it until 1989. Some buildings on the south side of the peninsula have been completely rebuilt, while ruins of the remaining buildings can be found scattered across the peninsula. Douglas Bay Battery was on the north side and Bluff Point Gun Battery on the western summit .

Antilles Racer ( Alsophis antillensis ) in Cabrits National Park.

Freetime activities

The national park has a network of hiking trails and the last stage of the Waitukubuli Trail (segment 14) leads from Capuchin to Cabrits. There are also guided tours for tourists. There is a jetty and diving school on the southern coast.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Hailey: Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas Volume 2: Regional Accounts of the West Indies. Brill 2011: 162. ISBN 9004194088
  2. ↑ a b c Cabrits National Park (Fort Shirley). ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Search Dominica. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / searchdominica.com
  3. ↑ geoview.info .
  4. ↑ geonames.org .

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