Meaning of "Insula Barbados"

"Insula Barbados" is Latin for "Island of Barbados".

• Insula = island (Latin noun, 1st declension).
• Barbados = the proper name of the Caribbean island, derived from Portuguese Os Barbados ("The Bearded Ones"), referring either to the bearded fig trees (Ficus citrifolia) or the bearded appearance of the indigenous Kalinago people.

The phrase appears on historical maps, nautical charts, and early colonial documents when Latin was the lingua franca of scholarship and cartography.