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John H. Bounds

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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Geography, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. Author of Tahiti.

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Map showing the location of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory, in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of the Bahamas and north of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Neighboring countries such as Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela are also labeled, with Cockburn Town marked as the capital.

Turks and Caicos Islands, overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the West Indies. It consists of two groups of islands lying on the southeastern periphery of The Bahamas, of which they form a physical part, and north of the island of Hispaniola. The islands include eight large cays (keys) and…