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The Danish West Indies became an insular area of the U.S., called the United States Virgin Islands. Between 1958 and 1962, the United Kingdom re-organised all their West Indies island territories (except the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas) into the West Indies Federation. They hoped that the Federation would coalesce into a single ...
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]
Although slavery in the Bahamas was not abolished until 1834, the Bahamas became a haven of manumission for African slaves, from outside the British West Indies, in 1818. [16] Africans liberated from illegal slave ships were resettled on the islands by the Royal Navy , while some North American slaves and Seminoles escaped to the Bahamas from ...
When the Central and South American nations that border the Caribbean Sea (many of which have a cultural and linguistic heritage that sets their history out of the scope of the region) are excluded, the Caribbean covers the same geographical area as the West Indies, containing a total of 16 sovereign states (general sense) and 12 island ...
Island Area (km 2) Area (sq mi) Country or Countries 112 Little San Salvador Island: 9.7 - Bahamas: 113 Catalina Island: 9.6 - Dominican Republic: 114 Terre-de-Bas: 9 - Guadeloupe: 115 Conception Island: 8.5 3 Bahamas: 116 Ronde Island: 8.1 - Grenada: 117 Jost Van Dyke: 8 3 British Virgin Islands: 118 Union Island: 8 3 Saint Vincent and the ...
British West Indies/Anglophone Caribbean – Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bay Islands, Guyana, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Croix (briefly), Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago (from 1797) and the Turks and ...
Bahamas: 0.9%: 412,624: 0.6%: 395,640: 1 ... United States Virgin Islands : 0.2%: ... List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies; List of West Indian first-level ...
The island has the world's largest collection of blue holes. [21] Geographically, North Andros is the sixth largest island in the West Indies, at roughly 6,000 km 2 (2,300 sq mi) in area and 167 km (104 mi) long and 64 km (40 mi) wide at its widest point, and the 153rd largest island on Earth.