ABSTRACT
Guyana terrain is mostly rolling highlands with a low, swampy coastal plain and a savanna in the south. The region known as Guiana or Guyana is on the northeastern coast of South America. It is comprised of the former British Guiana, now Guyana, the former Netherlands Guiana, now Suriname, and French Guiana. Guyana achieved independence in 1966, it became a republic in 1970, and it adopted a new constitution in 1980. According to Mr. Russell Fox, formerly of the Ordnance Survey’s International Library, “In the first half of the twentieth century the Lands and Mines Department had observed some high-order astro fixes and traverses in the coastal zone and along the main river valleys leading to the mining areas in the interior of the northern part of British Guyana. Of all of the borders of Guyana, only the Brazil–Guyana boundary appears to be currently stable and uncontested.
