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Vieques
(redirected from Vieques, Puerto Rico)

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Noun1.Vieques - a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico used for target practice by the United States Navy
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, Puerto Rico, PR - a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico
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Data has been gathered since 1999 on the eastern end of the Isla de Vieques, Puerto Rico - a land and sea area that was used as a naval gunnery and bombing range from 1943-2003.
Unexploded munitions in oceans causing leak of cancer-causing toxins by Asian News International
Beyond military research, XBPMs are already being used in an environmental study of Bioluminescent Bay in Vieques, Puerto Rico.
New instrument sheds light on bioluminescence: a WHOI engineer ... by Lippsett, Lonny / Oceanus
military withdrawal from Panama in 1999, military troops and commands were reconcentrated in Puerto Rico, adding fuel to a nonviolent mass movement to throw the Navy out of its bombing range in Vieques, Puerto Rico.
U.S. military bases in Latin America and the Caribbean by Lindsay-Poland, John / Foreign Policy in Focus
 
 
 
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