Lesser Antilles
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location within the Caribbean
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southern tip of Dominica
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Los Roques archipelago, Federal Dependencies of Venezuela in the Leeward Antilles
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Pigeon Point, Trinidad and Tobago
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Trunk Bay, United States Virgin Islands
Islands
editThe main Lesser Antilles are (from north to south to west):
Leeward Islands
edit- Anguilla (UK)
- Saint Martin (Fr.) / Sint Maarten (Neth.)
- Saint Barthélemy (Fr.)
- Saba (Neth.)
- Sint Eustatius (Neth.)
- Saint Kitts (St. Kitts and Nevis)
- Nevis (St. Kitts and Nevis)
- Barbuda (Antigua and Barbuda)
- Antigua (Antigua and Barbuda)
- Redonda (Antigua and Barbuda) uninhabited
- Montserrat (UK)
- Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre (often combined as Guadeloupe) (Fr.)
- La Désirade (Guadeloupe dependency) (Fr.)
- Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe dependency) (Fr.)
- Îles des Saintes archipelago (Guadeloupe dependency) (Fr.)
Windward Islands
edit- Dominica (Commonwealth)
- Martinique (Fr.)
- Saint Lucia (St. Lucia)
- Barbados (Barbados is a Continental island found 100 miles (160 km) east of the Windward chain)[1][2][3]
- Saint Vincent (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)
- Grenadines (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)
- Carriacou and Petite Martinique (Grenada)
- Grenada (Grenada)
- Trinidad and Tobago(Sometimes considered part of the Windward Islands. They are the most southern islands of the Caribbean region. See Islands of Trinidad and Tobago.[4][5][6]
Leeward Antilles
editIslands north of the Venezuelan coast (from west to east):
- Aruba (Neth.)
- Curaçao (Neth.)
- Bonaire (Neth.)
- Federal Dependencies of Venezuela (Ven.)
- Nueva Esparta (Ven.)
- ↑ Windward Islands | islands, West Indies (in en). Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved on January 18, 2019.
- ↑ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. The Scotland District of Barbados (in en). UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved on January 18, 2019.
- ↑ The Windward Islands and Barbados. countrystudies.us. Retrieved on January 18, 2019.
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- ↑ Cohen, Saul B., ed. "West Indies" Archived August 16, 2006, at the Wayback Machine The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. Archived August 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine New York: Columbia University Press – Bartleby. Accessed: September 19, 2006
- ↑ ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL CONSTITUTED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 287, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANNEX VII, OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION BETWEEN: BARBADOS – AND – THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Archived December 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine – The Hague, April 11, 2006 (Pages 15–16)
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