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  2. Windward Islands - Wikipedia

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    227/km 2 (588/sq mi) The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles. Part of the Caribbean islands or West Indies, they lie south of the Leeward Islands and east of the Leeward Antilles, approximately between latitudes 10° and 16° N and longitudes 60° and 62° W. The name was also used to refer to a ...

  3. British Windward Islands - Wikipedia

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    The British Windward Islands was an administrative grouping of British colonies in the Windward Islands of the West Indies, existing from 1833 until 3 January 1958 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados (the seat of the governor until 1885, when it returned to its former status of a completely separate colony), Tobago (until 1889, when it ...

  4. Windward Islands (Society Islands) - Wikipedia

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    Pop. density. 163/km 2 (422/sq mi) The Windward Islands (French: Îles du Vent) are the eastern group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean. These islands were also previously named the Georgian Islands in honour of King George III of the United Kingdom. [2][3]

  5. Lesser Antilles - Wikipedia

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    The islands of the Lesser Antilles are divided into three groups: the Windward Islands in the south, the Leeward Islands in the north, and the Leeward Antilles in the west. The Windward Islands are so called because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds ...

  6. Leeward Islands - Wikipedia

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    Leeward Islands. The Leeward Islands (/ ˈliːwərd /) are a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. Starting with the Virgin Islands east of Puerto Rico, they extend southeast to Guadeloupe and its dependencies. In English, the term Leeward Islands refers to the northern islands of the ...

  7. Category:Windward Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Windward Islands — the southern islands group of the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean. Subcategories. This category has the following 16 ...

  8. List of governors of the Windward Islands - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of viceroys in the British Windward Islands.The colony of the Windward Islands was created in 1833 and consisted of Grenada, Barbados (to 1885), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago (to 1889), St. Lucia (from 1838), and Dominica (from 1940).

  9. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Wikipedia

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    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (/ ˌ ɡ r ɛ n ə ˈ d iː n z / ⓘ GREH-nə-DEENZ) is an island country in the eastern Caribbean.It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea, where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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