British Guiana
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British Guiana was a British colony located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana.
Charles Edmonstone plantation in Demerara, 1834.
Illustration of the Demerara rebellion of 1823
British Guiana and its boundary lines, 1896
Stamp with a portrait of King George VI, 1938
Guyana
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Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Suriname to the east, Brazil to the sout
British Guiana
…British Guiana was a British colony located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. The first known Europeans to encounter Guiana were Sir Walter Raleigh, an English explorer, and his crew. Raleigh published a book entitled The Discovery…
Kaieteur Falls is one of the world's most powerful waterfalls.
Rupununi Savannah
A large part of Guyana's territory is covered by the Amazon rainforest, the world's largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest.
The Anomaloglossus beebei in Kaieteur National Park, endemic to Guyana