United Nations Photo

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Unique ID UN7ALB50465

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Assistance to the Survey Department of Jamaica

1/1/1967 10:07:05 PM

Unique ID UN7509785

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Headline The Island of Jamaica

Caption Description The island of Jamaica, one of the Greater Antilles, lies 90 miles south of Cuba on the northern fringe of the Caribbean Sea. The island, with an area of 4,411 square miles, supports a population of 1.6 million people, nearly 20% of whom live in the capital, Kingston and its environs. Mountains cover about six-seventh of the land and rise as high as 7,000 feet. Its climate varies with location and altitude – temperatures ranging downward from an average of 79° Fahrenheit and yearly rainfall ranging downward from 110 to 22 inches. The mainstays of the island’s economy are bauxite and sugar.
An open-pit bauxite mine of the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation in the Tobolski area of Jamaica, near Discovery Bay. [No exact date]

Unique Identifier UN7509756

NICA ID 361552

Production Date 07/01/1968 10:08:32 PM

Country Jamaica

Credit UN Photo/HB