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Ambergris Cay Airport
In 1992 the Turks and Caicos government set aside 33 protected areas of national parks, nature
reserves and sanctuaries for the protection and conservation of island wetlands. These protected
lagoons and swamps provide nesting and fishing grounds for a variety of birds as they make their
migratory route between North and South America. Ambergris Cay is also home to a number of birds
including imperial, sandwich, sooty and tropic bird terns, laughing gulls, plovers, oyster catchers,
pelicans and osprey.
Hawkes Nest Harbour Village
Located on the south end of Grand Turk, Hawkes Nest Anchorage is one of the finest sheltered
harbors in the Caribbean. Christopher Columbus was one of the first to anchor there. He described
it as the only one of its kind in the Bahamas "large enough for all the ships of Christendom."
Several other famous mariners also anchored there including William Phips and the Royal Navy
Frigates of Horatio Nelson.
Colonel Brown Ruins
Colonel Thomas Brown of Atlanta, Georgia was the most prominent of the British Loyalists to receive
land grants in the Caicos, in the late 1700s.
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