The webpages for the UWI Mona Geography Department includes this
introduction:
http://isis.uwimona.edu.jm/faculty/natsci/geoggeol/geog/introduct
ion.htm
which *finishes* cryptically with the sentence:
"Three regular publications are edited by geography staff: "
with no following list of the three. Somewhat confusing.

A Mona Geography Dpt page is devoted to what is evidently one of
the three journals, Caribbean Geography:
http://isis.uwimona.edu.jm/faculty/natsci/geoggeol/geog/cgindex.h
tm
"Caribbean Geography is a journal dedicated to the advancement of
geography in the region".

As one our postings says that the Caribbean Studies Journal comes
from the Mona Geography Dept, it must be one of the other two
"regular publications [..] edited by geography staff".
I have sent an enquiry to the manager of the website for the
balance of the Introduction page, but fear that it is old.

Searches in the Universities around the Caribbean, including
various Floridas, shows several journals and newsletters of
similar, though not identical, title, but the reference to Mona
Geography ought to fix the location.

For those unfamiliar, this universities finding site is very
useful: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ-full.html

For those who look for the Caribbean Studies Association
http://www.fgcu.edu/csa2001/aboutcsa.html (hosted at Florida Gulf
Coast University, and publishing the Caribbean Studies
Newsletter), beware that on some links it gets confused with the
Caribbean Students Association (hosted at University of Central
Florida http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~csasite/ ) whose webpage is
entitled Caribbean Studies Association but looks as if it dates
from 1998 and may indeed have been an earlier manifestation of
the CSA at FGCU. Somewhat confusing.

Just as a matter interest, how far does the Caribbean stretch?
The Caribbean Ocean is distinct from the Gulf of Mexico, but are
they one for our purposes? Presumably including the Bahamas, but
not Bermuda (way out in the middle of the Atlantic)? On
http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~kszydlow/Caribmap.html there is a map of
the 'Caribbean Basin' which goes no further west than Cuba and
just manages to include a piece of Honduras. What is the best
term to use, and how far in each direction do we go? Somewhat
confusing.

Members of this list might like to look at a new centre for
studies of the South Atlantic
athttp://www.cofc.edu/humanitiescenter/ , which, being
US-centered, means the South Atlantic Coast of the USA -
geographicaly not including the Gulf, but then stretched to
include Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Somewhat
confusing.

John Weiss
Trying to resist confusion, but studying Trinidad history
nevertheless


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