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"Cayman Brac is only 12 miles long and just over a mile wide. There are lots of caves in the limestone, more than 170 of them, though only a few are noteworthy. Christopher Columbus discovered Cayman Brac and Little Cayman in 1503. He originally named the islands Las Tortugas because of all of the turtles that they saw. It was Sir Francis Drake who renamed them the Cayman Islands in 1586, for the caiman it is said, the little alligator-like reptiles, though we don't have any, so he must have seen big iguanas. Brac is Gaelic for bluff. The bluff goes from west to east, rising all the way to its final height of 141' above the sea where the lighthouse stands at the easternmost point of the isla