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The Lesser Antilles [1] is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, forming part of the West Indies in Caribbean region of the Americas. They are distinguished from the larger islands of the Greater Antilles to the west.
Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles are an archipelago in the southeastern Caribbean, forming a boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. These islands were the first part of the New World to be settled and colonised by Europeans. Overview.
Lesser Antilles, long arc of small islands in the Caribbean Sea extending in a north-south direction from the Virgin Islands to Grenada. The main island groups include the Windward and Leeward Islands; these names reflect the importance to the region of the prevailing easterly trade winds.
The Lesser Antilles are the Pupa Islands in the north of the Antilles and the Winward Islands in the southeast. Venezuela is located just south of the Lesser Antilles called Pupa Antilles. While the Lucayan Archipelago of Bahamas and Turks and Caicos is part of the West Indies, they are not usually included in the Antilles.
Map of the Caribbean islands and bordering countries. Photo: The Caribbean island grouping known as the Lesser Antilles consists of three smaller island groups—the Windward Islands, the Leeward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles—and includes all the small islands in the Caribbean south of Puerto Rico.
The Greater Antilles are the four largest islands in the northwestern portion of the Caribbean Sea. This includes Cuba, Hispaniola (the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. In total, the Greater Antilles make up almost 90% of the land in the West Indies.
A map exhibiting the windward and leeward islands on the lower right section of the map. The Windward and Leeward Islands are groups of islands comprising the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. The majority of the islands are small and uninhabited while the larger ones have become sovereign countries.
A crowded map of the Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles are a chain of islands that stretch from just east of Puerto Rico to the coast of Venezuela, forming the Eastern edge of the Caribbean sea. Although larger, more populous Caribbean island nations like Jamaica and Cuba are well known, these countries and territories get less attention.
The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea that extend from the Virgin Islands south to Trinidad and Tobago, consisting of two main groups of islands: the northern group, which includes the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands, and the southern group, which includes Trinidad and Tobago.
The Virgin Islands is an archipelago located in the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean Sea. To the east lies the Atlantic Ocean and to the west the Caribbean. This archipelago comprises of three main islands: Saint Thomas (St. Thomas), Saint John (San Juan), and Water Island and other smaller islands.