The Cayman Islands,
are a British colony in the West Indies and a group n.w. of Jamaica,
consisting of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac. The capital
city of George Town is well worth visiting. The islands were discovered by
Christopher Columbus in 1503 but was never really occupied by the
Spaniards. It went to the British in 1670 and subsequently colonized by
the English from Jamaica. It became administratively independent of
Jamaica in 1962 and a constitution, providing for a governor, was enacted
in 1972.
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