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The islands were discovered by Columbus on 10 May 1503 and (with Jamaica) were recognized as British possessions by the Treaty of Madrid in 1670. Grand Cayman was settled in 1734 and the other islands in 1833. They became a separate Crown Colony on 4 July 1959, administered by the same governor as Jamaica until the latter’s independence on 6 Aug. 1962 when they received their own Administrator (From 1972 a governor).
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Annual Report, 1991. Cayman Islands Government, 1992
Compendium of Statistics of the Cayman Islands, 1991. Cayman Islands Government Statistics Office, 1992
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Hunter, B. (1993). Cayman Islands. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271227_37
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