North Caicos

North Caicos
	Position of the island
Waters	Atlantic Ocean
Archipelago	Caicos Islands
Geographical location	21 ° 53 ′ N , 71 ° 57 ′ W Coordinates: 21 ° 53 ′ N , 71 ° 57 ′ W
length	21.8 km
width	8.56 km
surface	116.4 km²
Highest elevation	20 m
Residents	1312 (2012) ; 11 inhabitants / km²
main place	Bottle Creek

North Caicos is the second largest island of the Atlantic Ocean located Caicos Islands and is part of the British overseas territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands .

It is only separated from the neighboring islands of Parrot Cay and Middle Caicos by narrow inlets. The land area of North Caicos is 116 km². The island is divided by Flamingo Lake , a 5 km long brackish water lake that is now open to the sea at high tide , into two peninsulas of almost the same size , which are then only connected by an isthmus in the north of just under one kilometer .

The main town Bottle Creek and North Caicos Airport are on the east coast of the southern peninsula . On the northern peninsula are the villages of Whitby / Kew and Sandy Point. Today (as of 2012) 1312 people live on North Caicos, which is slightly less than in the previous census in 2001 (1347 inhabitants).

literature

HE Sadler, Marjorie Sadler, Karen Collins: Turks Islands Landfall. A History of the Turks & Caicos Islands . Marjorie E. Sadler, Grand Turk - Turks and Caicos Islands 1997, ISBN 976-8138-62-9 .

Web links

North Caicos and Middle Caicos Tourism. In: visittci.com. Visit Turks and Caicos Islands Limited.; accessed on December 4, 2018

Individual evidence

^ Physical Characteristics. Land areas of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Department of Economic Planning and Statistics, Government of Turks and Caicos, archived from the original on March 25, 2009 ; accessed on December 4, 2018 .
↑ 2012 Population and Housing Census - Preliminary Report. (PDF; 1.69 MB) In: caribbeanelections.com. KnowledgeWalk Institute, p. 26 , accessed December 4, 2018 .

[1] Physical Characteristics. Land areas of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Department of Economic Planning and Statistics, Government of Turks and Caicos, archived from the original on March 25, 2009 ; accessed on December 4, 2018 .

[2] 2012 Population and Housing Census - Preliminary Report. (PDF; 1.69 MB) In: caribbeanelections.com. KnowledgeWalk Institute, p. 26 , accessed December 4, 2018 .