World Atlas 2010 (4th edition)

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HAITI

JAMAICA

Islas del Maíz

I. de San Andrés

I. de Providencia

Cayos Miskitos

Bajo Nuevo

Islas Santanilla

(part of Colombia)

(part of Colombia)

(part of Colombia)

(part of Honduras)

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Las Tablas

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Bluefields

Chitré

Each chamber at Gatun Locks on the Panama Canal

is 110 ft (33 m) wide and 1000 ft (303 m) long.

The locks took four years to build and required

2 million cubic yards (1.5 million cu m)

of concrete.

The Great Blue Hole in Lighthouse Reef, a submerged

cave some 1000 ft (303 m) in diameter and

400 ft (120 m) deep, was originally explored by

Jacques Cousteau, co-inventor of the aqualung.