... rule, the island's French cultural legacy is still evident in its Creole dialect. One of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, St Lucia is located midway down the Eastern Caribbean chain, between Martinique and St. Vincent, and north of Barbados. St. Lucia is only 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, with a shape that is said to resemble either a mango ... or an avocado. The Atlantic Ocean is alongside its eastern shore, while the beaches of the west coast face Caribbean Sea. On the island however, the rainforest is broken only by fields and orchards of banana, coconut, mango, and pa...

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