Slide showing a photograph of a settlement at the foot of a hill, near to water. Possibly Rockfort near Kingston on the coast.. Part of Box 108. Boswell Collection. Slide number 45. Jamaica, officially the Commonwealth of Jamaica, is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, situated in the Caribbean Sea. Jamaica is south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola, the island containing the nation-states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the West Indies.