The Port Royal Cays are a small group of uninhabited islands or cays off Port Royal, Jamaica, located at 17°55′06.36″N76°49′11.96″W / 17.9184333°N 76.8199889°W / 17.9184333; -76.8199889 and arranged in the shape of an atoll with a diameter between 4 and 5 km, and a total area of 12 km2. The land area is about 0.03 km2. There are eight named cays, including South Cay Rock which is sometimes subsumed with South Cay.
Gun Cay, the northernmost, is only 400 metres from the Jamaican mainland.
The main cay is Lime Cay, on the northeastern rim. It measures 380 metres northwest–southeast, and is up to 80 metres wide, measuring 2 ha in area. About half of the area is wooded, the rest is sand and coral. On the western beach is a wooden hut.
The individual cays, clockwise starting in the north:
Lime Cay is the main islet off the shore of PortRoyalCays, Jamaica. It located in the northeast region of the reef. Located 15 - 30 minutes by boat from...
of Jamaica, the other one being the Morant Cays (Jamaica also has nearshore islands like the PortRoyalCays). The bank is centered at 17°06′N 78°20′W...
Maiden Cay is one of the main islets off the shore of PortRoyalCays, Jamaica. It is located in the northeast region of the reef, just south of its sister...
Jamaica, such as the PortRoyalCays. Southwest of mainland Jamaica lies Pedro Bank, an area of shallow seas, with a number of cays (low islands or reefs)...
Les Cayes. Les Cayes-related website "Port-Salut: bien sur, mais...", Le Nouvelliste, in French, article on differences between Les Cayes and Port Salut...
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or cays, often referred to as "The Fish Bowl of the Bahamas." They have a population of 807 (2010 census), most of whom are on Great Harbour Cay. The...
The Cat Cays are two islands in the Bahamas, North Cat Cay and South Cat Cay, approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Bimini. North Cat Cay is a privately...
Royal Caribbean agreed to use Port Everglades as a preferred berth for its Oasis class ships. The new agreement extended the past contract with Port Everglades...
Castaway Cay, a private island in the Bahamas designed as an exclusive port of call for Disney's ships. A second private destination, Lookout Cay at Lighthouse...
Reef form a cluster of reefs of 66 by 26 km. Magdelaine Cays, Coringa Islets and Herald Cays are part of the 8856 km2 Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve...
Lighthouse Service. Great Stirrup Cay is adjacent to Little Stirrup Cay, Royal Caribbean Cruises' private island. Great Stirrup Cay, along with the rest of the...
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sand cay called Observatory Cay, and a lighthouse at the northern end, which is the only permanently dry land, although there are a few other cays that...
her home port, Port Canaveral in Florida. The ship's initial cruises were to Nassau, Bahamas with a stop at Disney Cruise Line's Castaway Cay over three...
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protected area and forms part of Capricornia Cays National Park. Masthead Island is one of the most undisturbed cays in the national park because human and...
and on 29 March he was hanged at Gallows Point in PortRoyal. His corpse was hung in chains at Gun Cay. W. Morgan Sheppard portrayed Vane in the 1999 family...
Isle were filmed in Petit Tabac, one of five islands known as the Tobago Cays, in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Shipwreck Cove is an inlet on the fictional...
Belize, Norwegian Cruise Line Half Moon Cay or Little San Salvador Island, Bahamas, Holland America Line Princess Cays, part of Eleuthera, Bahamas, Princess...
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