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Dominica is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea with the Guadeloupe to the north and Martinique to the south. Main pages: List of islands of Dominica and Category:Islands of Dominica The island nation of Dominica with a total area of 750 km 2 (290 sq mi) includes two small, off-shore islands and one disputed island: [ 11 ] [ 12 ]
The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean islands or West Indies.Located approximately between latitudes 10° and 16° N and longitudes 60° and 62° W, they extend from Dominica in the north to Trinidad and Tobago in the south, and lie south of the Leeward Islands and east of Leeward Antilles.
The state of Florida is the closest point in the U.S. mainland to the Greater Antilles, while the Florida Keys, though not part of the Greater Antilles, is an island group north of Cuba. Puerto Rico ’s historic district, Old San Juan , contains 16th-century architecture, including the Fort San Felipe del Morro , the Fort San Cristóbal , the ...
The Leeward Islands (/ ˈ l iː w ər d /) 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 Lesser ...
Map of Antilles / Caribbean in 1843. The word Antilles originated in the period before the European colonization of the Americas, Antilia being one of those mysterious lands which figured on the medieval charts, sometimes as an archipelago, sometimes as continuous land of greater or lesser extent, its location fluctuating in mid-ocean between the Canary Islands and India.
As early as the 1970s, the first illegal immigrants of Haitian origin arrived in Guadeloupe to meet a need for labour in the agricultural sector; alongside this Haitian immigration, which is more visible because it is more numerous, Guadeloupe has also seen the arrival and settlement of populations from the island of Dominica and the Dominican ...
Two main islands (Heard Island and McDonald Island) Oceanic Australia: 412 159 No permanent resident: 0 0 Southern Ocean Hong Kong: river delta island group with two main islands of Hong Kong Island and Lantau Island of a total of 263 with the largest 19 encompassing 293.26 km 2 (113.23 sq mi) around the peninsula of Kowloon and the New Territories
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