Cayes
The cayes (this female name seems employed in French only in the plural) are low small islands mainly made up of rocks but more often of sand and coral. The word is mainly used in the the Caribbean, sometimes but one employs it for similar configurations in tropical environment, especially in Florida for the Florida Keys, in Australia for the Grande barrier of coral and with the Belize for the Cayes of the Belize. One frequently finds this term in the name of islands or small islands in the anglophone Caribbean (Cay or Key) or Spanish-speaking (Cayo).
The sandy cayes are formed by the action of the tides and the wind, and by accumulation on reefs, one rather long period of time, excrements of birds, remains of corals and sand, usually on the side with the wind but occasionally under the wind. Time affects much the formation of the cayes, of the important tides with a greater remains contribution can increase them when a Cyclone can completely make them disappear.
Simple: Cay
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