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Location within the Lesser Antilles La Tortuga Island, Federal Dependencies of Venezuela Klein Bonaire, Netherlands. The Leeward Antilles (Dutch: Benedenwindse Eilanden) 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 ...
The ABC islands is the physical group of A ruba, B onaire, and C uraçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. These islands have a shared political history and a status of Dutch underlying ownership, since the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 ceded them back to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Curaçao and ...
The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ʔɑnˈtɪlə(n)] ⓘ; Papiamento: Antia Hulandes), [2] also known as the Dutch Antilles, [3] was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, and Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire in the Leeward Antilles.
Article first published: Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, 5 a.m. ET. As per the National Hurricane Center's 5 am Friday update, Category 4 Hurricane Kirk is 1010 miles east-northeast of the Northern Leeward ...
Hurricane Tammy is still marching closer to the Leeward Islands, soon to bring heavy rains and flooding over much of the Lesser Antilles, the National Hurricane Center said Friday night.
Monday morning’s update from the hurricane center said the system near the Leeward Islands and Greater Antilles, “is expected to interact with an approaching tropical wave during the next ...
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 influx of tropical moisture and outer rain bands from Lee is expected to bring rainfall amounts ranging from 1-2 inches (25-50 mm) across the northern Leeward Islands from Friday night to Sunday.