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The Lesser Antilles[ 1] are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. They are distinguished from the large islands of the Greater Antilles to the west. They form an arc which begins east of Puerto Rico and swings south through the Leeward and Windward Islands almost to South America and then turns west along the Venezuelan coast (Leeward ...
227/km 2 (588/sq mi) The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles. Part of the West Indies, they lie south of the Leeward Islands, approximately between latitudes 10° and 16° N and longitudes 60° and 62° W. The name was also used to refer to a British colony which existed between 1833 and 1960 and ...
Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. At the time of first contact between Europe and the Americas, the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean included the Taíno of the northern Lesser Antilles, most of the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, the Kalinago of the Lesser Antilles, the Ciguayo and Macorix of parts of Hispaniola, and the Guanahatabey of ...
It lies at the conjuncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles. The country consists of two major islands, Antigua and Barbuda, which are approximately 40 km (25 mi) apart, and several smaller islands, including Great Bird, Green, Guiana, Long, Maiden, Prickly Pear, York, and Redonda.
This article is based on slides taken during a visit to the Lesser Antilles to investigate the physical origin of the islands, their biological development, and the effect of human occupations on the natural habitat of the islands.
Curaçao (/ ˈ k j ʊər ə s oʊ,-s aʊ, ˌ k j ʊər ə ˈ s oʊ,-ˈ s aʊ / KURE-ə-soh, KURE-ə-sow, kure-ə-SOH, or kure-ə-SOW, [7] [8] Dutch: [kyːraːˈsʌu] ⓘ or, [9] Papiamentu: [ˈkɔrsɔu̯]), officially the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; [10] Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), [11] [12] is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch ...
The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ʔɑnˈtɪlə(n)] ⓘ; Papiamento: Antia Hulandes) [2] was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country consisted of several island territories located in the Caribbean Sea. The islands were also informally known as the Dutch Antilles. [3]
List of Taínos. This is a list of known Taíno, some of whom were caciques (male and female tribal chiefs ). Their names are in ascending alphabetical order and the table may be re-sorted by clicking on the arrows in the column header cells. The Taíno were the indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser ...