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History of the Cayman Islands - English
URL: http://www.aall.com/Aall/cayman.html

The Cayman Islands are a British Crown Colony. There is no desire for independence and the political climate is stable. Day-to-day government is in the hands of the Executive Council, which is made up of three senior servants and four elected members and is presided over by a Governor appointed by the British Government.

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History of Cayman Islands - English
URL: http://www.cayman-realestate.com/History.html

Christopher Columbus was the first person to discover the Cayman Islands. On the 10 th of May, 1503 his son Ferdinand noted in his diary, "We were in sight of two very small and low islands full of tortoise as was the sea about, in so much that they looked like rocks." It was for this reason that the Cayman Islands were originally named Las Tortugas meaning "The Turtles."

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World History Archives: The history of the Cayman Islands - English
URL: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43/index-c.html

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The Cayman Islands Memory Bank - English
URL: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/65hm-e.htm

The Cayman Islands Memory Bank: collecting and preserving oral history in small island societies.

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History of Cayman Islands - English
URL: http://www.worldrover.com/history/cayman_islands_history.html

The Cayman Islands remained largely uninhabited until the 17th century. A variety of people settled on the islands: pirates, refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, shipwrecked sailors, deserters from Oliver Cromwell's army in Jamaica, and slaves.

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