During this voyage columbus also explored the northeast coast of cuba and the northern coast of hispaniola .
在这段航程中，哥伦布还到过古巴东北海岸和伊斯帕尼奥拉岛北部海岸。
Relations between the two countries that share the island of hispaniola have often been tense .
这两个分享伊斯帕尼奥岛的国家之间，关系经常很紧张。
But there are two reasons for outsiders-and especially the united states and haiti 's neighbour in hispaniola , the dominican republic-to do as much as possible to help the stricken country start afresh .
When spanish colonists in hispaniola imported african plantains in 1516 the harvard entomologist edward o. wilson has proposed they also brought over some of the plant 's parasites : scale insects which suck the juices from banana roots .
Seismologists have long worried about the island of hispaniola ( shared by haiti and the dominican republic ) . It sits on the gonave microplate , a small strip of the earth 's crust squeezed between the north american and caribbean tectonic plates .
