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HISTORY. 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.
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Cayman Islands Government, Annual Report
Compendium of Statistics of the Cayman Islands, 1992. Cayman Islands Government Statistics Office, 1993
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Hunter, B. (1995). Cayman Islands. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271241_38
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