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In English, the term Leeward Islands refers to the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. The more southerly part of this chain, starting with Dominica, is called the Windward Islands. Dominica was initially considered a part of the Leeward Islands but was transferred from the British Leeward Islands to the British Windward Islands in 1940.
The Leeward Antilles (Dutch: Benedenwindse Eilanden; Spanish: islas de Sotavento) are a chain of islands in the Caribbean, specifically part of the southerly islands of the Lesser Antilles (and, in turn, the Antilles and the West Indies) along the southeastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast of the South American ...
The Leeward Islands — the northern islands group of the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Lesser Antilles . It includes the countries that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
This is a list of viceroys of Antigua and Barbuda, from its initial colonisation in 1632 until its independence in 1981.. Between 1671 and 1816, Antigua was part of the British Leeward Islands and its viceroy was the Governor of the Leeward Islands.
The islands of the Lesser Antilles are divided into three groups: the Windward Islands in the south, the Leeward Islands in the north, and the Leeward Antilles in the west. The Windward Islands are so called because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds ...
The Lesser Antilles contains the northerly Leeward Islands and the southeasterly Windward Islands as well as the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Lucayan Archipelago (consisting of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands), though a part of the West Indies, is generally not included among the Antillean islands. [2]
This is a list of governors of the Leeward Islands. The Leeward Islands was originally created as a colony of England in 1671, continuing in existence until its dissolution in 1816. In 1833 a number of island colonies were grouped together under a single governor once again. These islands were reconstituted as a federal colony in 1872.
This is a list of islands of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Barbuda is an archipelagic state in the Leeward Islands . There are 54 islands in the country, including three main ones.