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  2. Windward Islands - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Leeward Islands - Wikipedia

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    In English, the term Leeward Islands refers to the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. The more southerly part of this chain, starting with Dominica, is called the Windward Islands. Dominica was initially considered a part of the Leeward Islands but was transferred from the British Leeward Islands to the British Windward Islands in 1940.

  4. Antilles - Wikipedia

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    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.

  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. Geography of Saint Lucia - Wikipedia

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    Map of Saint Lucia Enlargeable, detailed map of Saint Lucia. Saint Lucia is one of many small land masses composing the insular group known as the Windward Islands. [1] Unlike large limestone areas such as Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, or the Bahamas, which is a small island group composed of coral and sand, Saint Lucia is a typical Windward Island formation of volcanic rock that ...

  7. Hurricane watches in effect as Tropical Storm Gonzalo closes ...

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    Tropical Storm Gonzalo developed in the central Atlantic, about 1,250 miles east of the southern Windward Islands, on Wednesday morning, setting yet another record for the basin. Gonzalo is the ...

  8. Geography of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Wikipedia

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    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island state in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, an island arc of the Caribbean Sea in North America. The country consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines, a chain of small islands stretching south from Saint Vincent to Grenada.

  9. Disturbance nears Caribbean Sea, with another system also in ...

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    A disturbance near the Windward Islands, and another system in the far eastern Atlantic, could see some development by early next week, forecasters said.