Barbados (disambiguation)

Barbados or Barbadoes can refer to:

Places

• Barbados, an island nation located in the eastern Caribbean (formerly spelt Barbadoes)
• Barbadoes Island (Pennsylvania), an island in the Schuylkill River located to the south of Norristown in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
• Barbadoes, a former name of Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, D.C.
• Mártires de Barbados Stadium, a multi-use stadium in Bayamo, Cuba
• For the hotel at the Walt Disney World Resort with a themed area by the name of Barbados, see (Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort.)
• New Barbadoes Township, New Jersey
• New Barbadoes Neck
• Barbadoes Street, a major street in central Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Barbadoes Street Cemetery, Christchurch
• Barbadoes Green, former name of Howard Park, Kilmarnock, Scotland, home of Kilmarnock FC
• United States Navy Facility, Barbados (1957–1979), a U.S. Navy facility once located at Harrisons Point, St. Lucy, Barbados.

People

• Barbados Joe Walcott, also known as "The Barbados Demon", an early twentieth century boxer
• Barbados Slim, a fictional character on the US-based Television show Futurama

Animals

• Barbados Blackbelly Sheep, a breed of sheep common on the island of Barbados
• Barbados Raccoon, an animal thought to be extinct

Plants

• Barbados Aloe, a nickname for a species of aloe plant formally known as Aloe vera
• Barbados Cherry, the nickname of a plant known as Acerola
• Barbados gooseberry, the nickname for a plant species known as Pereskia aculeata
• Barbados Lily, a nickname for a species of flowering Lily known as Hippeastrum puniceum
• The Barbados Silver Palm (Coccothrinax barbadensis)
• The Pima cotton or "Sea Island cotton", known as the (Gossypium barbadense)
• Muscovado, a style of sugar also known as "Barbados"

Other

• Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX), a study in 1969 to study the rate of exchange of the "properties" heat, water substance, and momentum between the tropical ocean and the atmosphere.
• Barbados Slave Code, a system in Barbados and later South Carolina devised to establish African slavery
• The Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA), the widely used name of a United Nations document created in Barbados in 1994 during the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
• Barbados (band), a Swedish band who participated in Melodifestivalen several times
• Barbados (song), a UK #1 single for Typically Tropical
• Barbados (song), an Australian #2 single for Models (band)
• Barbados (composition), a jazz blues composed by Charlie Parker

Species Latin binomial name abbreviations

See also

• All pages beginning with "Barbados"
• All pages with titles containing "Barbados"
• Barbadian (disambiguation)
• Bajan (disambiguation)