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On our way to Cayman Islands

Tuesday Aug 07, 2007 · Categories: What's going on.-

The Cayman Islands were first sighted by Christopher Columbus on May 10, 1503 during his disastrous fourth and final voyage to the New World. He named them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there. The first recorded English visitor to the islands was Sir Francis Drake, who landed there in 1586 and named them the Cayman Islands after the Neo-Taino nations term (caiman) for crocodile (Zayas, 1914).

The Cayman Islands are located in the western Caribbean Sea. They are the peaks of a massive underwater ridge, known as the Cayman Trench, standing 2,400 m (8000 feet) from the sea floor, which barely exceeds the surface. The islands lie in the centre of the Caribbean south of Cuba and West of Jamaica. But even Grand Cayman, the largest of the three islands, is not visible on many maps. They are situated about 480 miles (770 km) south of Miami, 150 miles (240 km) south of Cuba, and 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Jamaica. Grand Cayman is by far the biggest, with an area of 76 square miles (197 km²). The two "Sister Islands" of Cayman Brac and Little Cayman are located about 90 miles (145 km) east of Grand Cayman and have areas of 14 square miles (36 km²) and 10 square miles (25.9 km²) respectively.

Oh yes. And this is where CSS Mania crew will be for the next 10 days, enjoying our holidays, drinking, partying and taking care of our wives. We will leave the "auto-updating" script (which works 99.99% fine, grabbing screenshots, taking care of the submissions, parsing data from the sites showcased to our central database) running for the first time since March 2004 during holidays. We are really sure nothing will beat our script.

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