The Port Royal Cays are a small group of uninhabited islands off Port Royal, Jamaica, arranged in a roughly circular atoll shape about four to five kilometers across. The atoll covers about twelve square kilometers of water but only around 0.03 square kilometers of actual land, spread across eight named cays. Lime Cay, on the northeastern rim, is the largest and best known, with patches of woodland, sand and coral, while Gun Cay sits at the northern tip barely 400 meters from Jamaica's mainland. The cays are uninhabited and serve as a seabird colony within Jamaica's territorial waters.
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The Port Royal Cays are a small group of uninhabited islands or cays off Port Royal, Jamaica, located at 17°55′06.36″N 76°49′11.96″W and arranged in the shape of an atoll with a diameter between 4 and 5 km, and a total area of 12 km2. The land area is about 0.03 km2. There are eight named cays, including South Cay...
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