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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.
The word Antilles originated in the period before the European conquest of the New World.Europeans used the term Antillia as one of the mysterious lands featured on medieval charts, sometimes as an archipelago, sometimes as continuous land of greater or lesser extent, its location fluctuating mid-ocean between the Canary Islands and Eurasia.
Map of the Scotia Sea and the South Antilles. The South Antilles (in Spanish: Antillas del Sur) or Antartilles (in Spanish: Antartillas) is the name given in some parts of South America to the insular group of volcanic origin that extends in the form of a great sinusoid from the southeastern edges of the Argentine Sea to bordering the western coasts of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Map of the West Indies published in 1899 Below is a list of islands belonging geographically to the Greater and Lesser Antilles and that were under Spanish rule in various stages of history, until it became independent from Spain.
Santiago de los Caballeros Nassau Camagüey Cap-Haïtien: UN M49 code: ... Political map of the West Indies. Life expectancy in the West Indies in 2019 and 2021.
Isla de Roberto, Isla Rosario, Isla del Tesoro, Isla ... Map all coordinates in "List of islands of Costa Rica" using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML;
The Lesser Antilles [1] is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, forming part of the West Indies in Caribbean region of the Americas.They are distinguished from the larger islands of the Greater Antilles to the west.
The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ʔɑnˈtɪlə(n)] ⓘ; Papiamento: Antia Hulandes), [2] also known as the Dutch Antilles, [3] was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, and Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire in the Leeward Antilles.