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Lesser Antilles, long arc of small islands in the Caribbean Sea extending in a north-south direction from the Virgin Islands to Grenada. The main island groups include the Windward and Leeward Islands; these names reflect the importance to the region of the prevailing easterly trade winds.
Map of the Lesser Antilles, 1780. History before European arrival. The First Islanders. The earliest Archaic Age habitation is evidenced at sites like St. John and Banwari Trace in Trinidad, dating between 7700 and 6100 B.P. Artifacts from this period include stone and bone tools used for hunting and fishing.
The Lesser Antilles are an archipelago in the southeastern Caribbean, forming a boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. These islands were the first part of the New World to be settled and colonised by Europeans. Overview. Map.
Three major physiographic divisions constitute the West Indies: the Greater Antilles, comprising the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; the Lesser Antilles, including the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique ...
The Antillean islands are divided into two groups: the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles consists of Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, and Hispaniola. Hispaniola is divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Antilles, group of islands located in the Caribbean Sea and comprising all of the West Indies except The Bahamas. They are divided into two major groups: the Greater Antilles, including Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico; and the Lesser Antilles, comprising all the rest of the islands.
Map of the Caribbean islands and bordering countries. Photo: Kmusser via Wikimedia Commons. The Caribbean island grouping known as the Lesser Antilles consists of three smaller island groups—the Windward Islands, the Leeward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles—and includes all the small islands in the Caribbean south of Puerto Rico.
The Lesser Antilles include the smaller islands of the Caribbean to the south and east of the Great Antilles. It begins just off the coast of Puerto Rico with the British and U.S. Virgin Islands and extends south to Grenada.
Where is Aruba located? Aruba is one of the Lesser Antilles islands located in the Southern Caribbean Sea. The island is located approximately 15 miles off the coast of Venezuela and on clear days it is possible to see Venezuela from the south-eastern side of the island.
The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea that extend from the Virgin Islands south to Trinidad and Tobago, consisting of two main groups of islands: the northern group, which includes the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands, and the southern group, which includes Trinidad and Tobago.