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Glover Island, Grenada
Glover Island is a small islet off the southern peninsula of Grenada. Glover Island, can be seen from Hardy Bay, True Blue Bay, and the famous St. George's University. It lies 0.723 miles (1.163 km) from the south coast by Maurice Bishop International Airport off the main island of Grenada. It can be seen 1.594 miles (2.566 km) west off L’ance aux Epines by the lighthouse. Early whaling history As early as 1869 schooner logbooks reported humpback whales off the southwest coast of Glover Island. This small uninhabited islet subsequently holds an interesting piece of Grenada's history for being the former home to a Norwegian whaling station. In the winter of 1923–1924, to study the feasibility of a commercial whaling operation off Grenada, the Norwegian Arctic explorer Captain Otto Sverdrup and the Director of ''Winge & Co.'', Halfdan Bugge, visited the island where Sverdrup, having observed 26 whales, studied the sea currents and recommended that a post be set up on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islet
An islet is a very small, often unnamed island. Most definitions are not precise, but some suggest that an islet has little or no vegetation and cannot support human habitation. It may be made of rock, sand and/or hard coral; may be permanent or tidal (i.e. surfaced reef or seamount); and may exist in the sea, lakes, rivers or any other sizeable bodies of water. Definition As suggested by its origin ''islette'', an Old French diminutive of "isle", use of the term implies small size, but little attention is given to drawing an upper limit on its applicability. The World Landforms website says, "An islet landform is generally considered to be a rock or small island that has little vegetation and cannot sustain human habitation", and further that size may vary from a few square feet to several square miles, with no specific rule pertaining to size. Other terms * Ait (/eɪt/, like eight) or eyot (/aɪ(ə)t, eɪt/), a small island. It is especially used to refer to river i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grenada
Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Petite Martinique, and several small islands which lie to the north of the main island and are a part of the Grenadines. It is located northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, northeast of Venezuela and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Its size is , and it had an estimated population of 112,523 in July 2020. Its capital is St. George's. Grenada is also known as the "Island of Spice" due to its production of nutmeg and mace crops. Before the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, Grenada was inhabited by the indigenous peoples from South America. Christopher Columbus sighted Grenada in 1498 during his third voyage to the Americas. Following several unsuccessful attempts by Europeans to colonise the island due to resistance from res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Nicolay Tønnessen
Johan Nicolay Tønnessen (30 November 1901 – 27 December 1987) was a Norwegian historian and schoolteacher. He was born in Kristiansand as a son of port magistrate Joh. E. Tønnessen and Ida, née Stray. He finished his secondary education in 1920 and took the cand.philol. degree at the Royal Frederick University in 1928, majoring in history and minoring in French and Latin. He also took pedagogy in 1926 and was a substitute at Trondhjem Cathedral School from 1927 to 1928. In 1928 he married Lulla Evensen; they had two daughters and one son. He was a teacher at Gjøvik Upper Secondary School from 1928 to 1935 and Grefsen Upper Secondary School from 1935 to 1959. In Gjøvik he was elected to the city council in the 1934 Norwegian local elections. He represented the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling, which with 10.9% of the vote had its third most successful city election in Gjøvik. Moving to Oslo, he did not finish the term. He became a member of the school board and deputy membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (Name change, born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American people, American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance (literature), American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are ''Moby-Dick'' (1851); ''Typee'' (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and ''Billy Budd, Billy Budd, Sailor'', a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a #Melville revival and Melville studies, Melville revival, and ''Moby-Dick'' grew to be considered one of the great American novels. Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler ''Acushnet'', but he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. ''Typee'', his first b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bequia
Bequia ( or ) is the second-largest island in the Grenadines at . It is part of the country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and is approximately from the nation's capital, Kingstown, on the main island, Saint Vincent. Bequia means "island of the clouds" in the ancient Arawak. The island's name was also 'Becouya' as part of the Grenadines. Bequia has a history of whaling which was introduced by the Yankee whalers in the 19th century. Its people are only allowed to catch up to four humpback whales per year using traditional hunting methods. The limit is rarely met, with no catch some years. Geography Bequia is a small island, measuring with a population of approximately 5,300. The native population are primarily a mixture of people of African, Scottish and Kalinago descent. A substantial number of white Barbadians also settled the Mount Pleasant area of Bequia in the 1860s. Many of their descendants still inhabit the area. Other highly populated areas include the island ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
