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    Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Ann, Manchester and the northern tip of Clarendon parishes, mostly within...
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  • A cockpit or flight deck is the area, on the front part of an aircraft, spacecraft, or submersible, from which a pilot controls the vehicle. The cockpit...
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  • slavery was abolished in 1838. The Windward Maroons and those from the Cockpit Country resisted conquest in the First Maroon War (c. 1728 to 1740), which...
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    Jamaica (redirect from Jamaica (country))
    "fertile" areas as "protected". Among the island's protected areas are the Cockpit Country, Hellshire Hills, and Litchfield forest reserves. In 1992, Jamaica's...
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    crepuscular behavior under certain conditions. Found in Jamaica in the Cockpit Country, historically once prevalent throughout much of Jamaica, notably in...
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  • up Cockpit or cockpit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cockpit is the flight deck of a fixed-wing aircraft. Cockpit may also refer to: The Cockpit (Leeds)...
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    of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica. It is located in Cockpit Country, where Jamaican Maroons and Indigenous Taíno established a fortified...
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    collected several times per second; the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) preserves the recent history of the sounds in the cockpit, including the conversation of the...
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    the rugged terrain of the Cockpit Country, one of the world's most dramatic examples of karst topography. The Cockpit Country is pockmarked with steep-sided...
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    were summarily executed. However, many more rebels escaped into the Cockpit Country, where they united with Apongo's rebels. Several of these groups of...
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  • Independence of Jamaica (category Foundations of countries)
    African slaves would frequently escape to Maroon territory, known as Cockpit Country. Over the first seventy-six years of British rule, skirmishes between...
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    Estate distillery was established in 1749, in Saint Elizabeth Parish in Cockpit Country in central Jamaica, based around a unique 400 hectare sugar plantation...
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  • Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come is a village in the Cockpit Country of western Jamaica. It is now a part of a district called Aberdeen, Jamaica, in the north-east...
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  • in the Blue Mountains in the eastern end of the island, and in the Cockpit Country in the west. They were known as the Windward Maroons and the Leeward...
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  • Heritage Park". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2024-01-08. "Cockpit Country Protected Area". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2025-04-23...
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    Black-billed amazon In Cockpit Country, Jamaica Conservation status Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata...
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    slavery to Cuba. However, a few hundred stayed out in the forests of the Cockpit Country, and they joined other runaway communities. In 1798, a slave named...
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  • Cockpit Country. In the first half of the 1800s, runaway slaves created the community of Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come on the land of Aberdeen in the Cockpit...
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    reaching cruise altitude and while the captain was out of the cockpit, Lubitz locked the cockpit door and set the plane to fly downward in a controlled descent...
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    the Blue Mountains and John Crow Mountains in eastern Jamaica, and Cockpit Country further to the west. The highest peak on Jamaica is Blue Mountain Peak...
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    Jamaica, in the forested mountains of the island's interior, in the Cockpit Country. Naquan, Cudjoe's father, was allegedly the one who orchestrated this...
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  • one of the three main valleys in Jamaica. The valley is located in Cockpit Country and averages 443 feet above sea level, with a dry sub-humid (0.5 -...
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    remaining two populations. Located in the mountainous and cave-filled Cockpit Country, this population is in less danger of human interference due to difficulty...
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    Nicholas Shoumatoff who joined him on three expeditions to the wild Cockpit Country in the late 1930s. ([1]) Avinoff's groundbreaking research on the biogeography...
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    Colony of Jamaica (category Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the flag caption or type parameters)
    Serras allied with the Spanish guerrillas on the western end of the Cockpit Country, while those under Juan de Bolas established themselves in modern-day...
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  • James McGhie, and he found refuge in the forested interior of the Cockpit Country. Many of the escaped slaves who joined his community had secured their...
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    000 ft) above sea level. The southern section of Trelawny is part of the Cockpit Country, and is uninhabitable. It is therefore a natural reserve for flora...
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    these Maroon communities in the mountains of eastern Jamaica, or the Cockpit Country in the west of the island. Up to the 1650s under Spanish rule, enslaved...
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    crow Illustration by Philip Henry Gosse from 1849 In flight, near Cockpit Country, Jamaica Conservation status Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1) Scientific...
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    than a true mountain range, they form the eastern boundary of the Cockpit Country. This is also the mountain that people used to go and pray. The Dry...
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