Barbados (disambiguation)

Barbados (disambiguation)

Barbados can refer to:

Places

*Barbados, an island nation located in the eastern Caribbean
*Barbados 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.)

People

*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 Slave Code, a system in Barbados and later South Carolina devised to establish African slavery
*The [http://www.sidsnet.org/docshare/other/BPOA.pdf Barbados Plan 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
*HMS Barbados, a United States ship lent to the British Royal Navy
*Barbados (band), a Swedish band who participated in Melodifestivalen several times
*Barbados (song), a UK #1 single for Typically Tropical
*Barbados (jazz), a jazz blues composed by Charlie Parker


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