Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans,
due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs.
France ceded
possession to Great Britain in 1763, which
made the island a
colony in 1805. In 1980, two years after
independence, Dominica's fortunes improved when a corrupt and tyrannical administration was replaced by that of
Mary Eugenia
CHARLES, the first female
prime minister in the Caribbean, who remained in
office for 15 years. Some 3,000 Carib Indians still living on Dominica are the only pre-Columbian population remaining in the
eastern Caribbean. known as "The
Nature island of the Caribbean" due to its
spectacular,
lush, and varied
flora and fauna, which are protected by an extensive natural
park system; the most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles, its volcanic
peaks are cones of
lava craters and include Boiling
Lake, the second-largest, thermally active
lake in
the world 
; "Roseau")
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