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The Greater Antilles[ 1 ] is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, together with Navassa Island and the Cayman Islands. Seven island states share the region of the Greater Antilles, with Haiti and the Dominican Republic sharing the island of Hispaniola.
The Antilles[1]is an archipelagobordered by the Caribbean Seato the south and west, the Gulf of Mexicoto the northwest, and the Atlantic Oceanto the north and east. The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the Greater Antillesand the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles includes the Cayman Islandsand larger islands of Cuba ...
West Indies. The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago. [5]
The Dominican Republic[ a ] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, [ 15 ][ 16 ] making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along ...
Life and Society in the Early Caribbean: The Greater Antilles, 1493–1550. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2021. ISBN 978-0-8071-7578-1. Altman, Ida and David Wheat, eds. The Spanish Caribbean & the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2019. Deagan, Kathleen and José María Cruxent.
The Lesser Antilles[ 1 ] is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, forming part of the Caribbean islands or West Indies. They are distinguished from the larger islands of the Greater Antilles to the west. They form an arc which begins east of Puerto Rico at the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, swings southeast through the Leeward and ...
The history of the Caribbean reveals the region's significant role in the colonial struggles of the European powers since the 15th century. In the modern era, it remains strategically and economically important. In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean and claimed the region for Spain. The following year, the first Spanish ...
The landmass that makes up what is the modern-day Bahamas, lies at the northern part of the Greater Antilles region and was believed to have been formed 200 million years ago when they began to separate from the supercontinent Pangaea. The Pleistocene Ice Age around 3 million years ago, had a profound impact on the archipelago's formation.