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Martinique: Caribbean Sea
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Martinique has this extraordinary French quality and the beautiful blue waters of the Caribbean too. See the photo gallery published by Conde Nast Traveler. If heaven is like Martinique, repent of your sins now. It's well worth the effort.
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The mountainous relief of Martinique represents the outermost edge of what remained of the original geologic formation after the subsidence of the trench that became the Caribbean Sea. The relief of the island takes the form of three principal massifs (mountainous masses). These are a still active volcano, Mount Pelée, 4,583 feet (1,397 metres) high, to the north; the Carbet Mountains, of which Lacroix Peak reaches 3,923 feet, in the centre; and Mount Vauclin, 1,654 feet high, in the south.
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By Patrick Markey CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Martinique will open a manslaughter inquiry on Thursday into the crash of West Caribbean Airways flight 708 in Venezuela that killed all 160 aboard, a French legal source said. "This will be done with the agreement of the (French) Justice Minister (Pascal Clement)," the source said. The Colombian charter jet was carrying tourists
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Martinique maintains regular air and sea links with France and North America. The main port is Fort-de-France. There is an international airport at Lamentin, to the east of Fort-de-France. The road network links Fort-de-France by an expressway with coastal towns. There are local bus services, and small coastal steamers connect various points around the island.
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Martinique ... elects 4 seats to the French National Assembly, the last elections were held in June 2007. The Union for a Popular Movement elected 1 deputy (Alfred Almont), the Socialist Party elected 1 (Louis-Joseph Manscour), the nationalist Martinican Independence Movement elected 1 (Alfred Marie-Jeanne), and the Martinican Progressive Party also elected 1(Serge Letchimy, mayor of Fort de France).
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This pathfinder includes the most important sources on the web relating to Martinique. The wealth of published books available on this subject exceeds the offerings of the online materials on the World Wide Web. Libraries, and in particular, The Library of Congress Online Catalog, offers a wide bibliography of such published works on subjects relating to Martinique. One need only search the appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings.In addition to Lambros Comitas' work [The Complete Caribbeana, 1900-1975: A Bibliographic Guide to the Scholarly Literature. (Millwood, NY: KTO Press, Research Institute for the Study of Man) 4 vols, 2193 pages, 1977.], the most important source for bibliography of books and articles concerning Martinique is the annual Handbook of Latin American Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/) produced by over 140 contributing editors under the editorship of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Additional coverage of journal articles can be found through a subscription to the Hispanic American Periodical Index (http://hapi.gseis.ucla.edu/).
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