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The Crown Wetlands lie on Little Cayman, one of the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea. Collectively they form one of the territory’s Important Bird Areas (IBAs). ==Description== The Crown Wetlands cover about 40% of the area of the island. Apart from Tarpon Lake they all dry out seasonally. They vary greatly in size and consist of four distinct types:〔 * On the northern and southern coasts, there are several hypersaline lagoons surrounded mainly by mangroves. They comprise the Tarpon Lake complex (236 ha), Grape Tree Pond (10 ha), Jackson's Pond (9 ha), Spot Bay Pond (5 ha), Sandy Point Pond (3.5 ha), Easterly Pond (3 ha) and Rosetta Flats Pond (2 ha). The fringing vegetation consists of varying combinations of four mangrove species mixed with ''Cordia sebestena'', ''Rhabdadenia biflora'' and ''Thespesia populnea''.〔 * At the south-western end of the island, near Preston Bay, there are 8.4 ha of brackish wetlands. They support a shrubby vegetation of ''Conocarpus'', ''Laguncularia'' and ''Acrostichum aureum'', as well as the herbaceous ''Rhachiallis americana'', ''Ruppia maritima'', ''Salicornia bigelovii'' and ''Sesuvium portulacastrum''.〔 * The 8.5 ha Charles Bight Pond, on the eastern bluff, has a monospecific stand of ''Conocarpus'' sp.〔 * Coot Pond on the south-eastern coast is a 0.1 ha ephemeral freshwater wetland that supports ''Conocarpus'' grassland.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crown Wetlands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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