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Guadeloupe (/ ˌ ɡ w ɑː d ə ˈ l uː p /; French: [ɡwad(ə)lup] ⓘ; Guadeloupean Creole French: Gwadloup, IPA:) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. [4] It consists of six inhabited islands— Basse-Terre , Grande-Terre , Marie-Galante , La Désirade , and two Îles des Saintes —as well as many uninhabited ...
Martinique (/ ˌ m ɑːr t ɪ ˈ n iː k / MAR-tin-EEK, French: ⓘ; Martinican Creole: Matinik or Matnik; [6] Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
Les Saintes, due to their location in the heart of the Lesser Antilles, were frequented first by Indian tribes coming from Caribbean and Central America. Caaroucaëra (the Arawak name of Îles des Saintes), although uninhabited due to the lack of spring water, were regularly visited by Arawak peoples then Kalinagos living on the neighbourhood islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica around the 9th ...
A volcanic island fully encircled by shallow reefs, Saint Barthélemy has an area of 25 square kilometres (9.7 sq mi) [note 1] [3] and a population of 9,961 at the Jan. 2017 census. [5] Its capital is Gustavia, [11] which also contains the main harbour. It is the only Caribbean island that was a Swedish colony for any
The French West Indies or French Antilles (French: Antilles françaises, [ɑ̃tij fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; Antillean Creole: Antiy fwansé) are the parts of France located in the Antilles islands of the Caribbean: The two overseas departments of: Guadeloupe, including the islands of Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, and La Désirade.
Saint Martin (French: Saint-Martin; Dutch: Sint Maarten) is an island in Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the northeastern Caribbean, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico. The 87 km 2 (34 sq mi) island is divided roughly 60:40 between the French Republic (53 km 2 or 20 sq mi) [ 1 ] and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km ...
Saint Lucia [9] is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. [10] Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique.
The company contracted with Messrs l'Olive and Duplessis to occupy and govern on its behalf the Caribbean islands belonging to the French crown. This led on September 1, 1635, to Pierre Bélain d'Esnambuc landing on Martinique with eighty to one hundred French settlers from Saint Cristophe. They met some resistance that they were able to ...