Map Of Lesser Antilles Islands

Notable Places in the Area. 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 blow east to west. On one side is the map of the southern part of the Caraïbes with Jamaica Hispaniola Haiti and the Dominican Republic Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Leeward Islands and Windward Islands including the northern coast of South America. It begins just off the coast of Puerto Rico with the British and US.

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The political map includes a list of neighboring countries and capital cities of the Lesser Antilles.

Map Of Lesser Antilles Islands. It has a 1234-metre 4049 ft active volcano La Soufriere which erupted violently in 1812 and 1902. A student may use the blank Lesser Antilles outline map to practice locating these political features. The Lesser Antilles are the Pupa Islands in the north of the Antilles and the Winward Islands in the southeast.

The Lesser Antilles are divided into the Leeward Islands in the North and Windward Islands in the South. These islands were the first part of the New World to be settled and colonized by Europeans. View of southern tip of Dominica.

Lesser antilles jamaica and the lesser antilles including the windward islands and the leeward islands. These names reflect the importance to the region of the prevailing easterly trade winds. A student may use the blank map to practice locating these political and physical features.

Satellite image of the lesser Antilles The Antilles includes the Greater Antilles on the north of the Carribean Sea and the Lesser Antilles on the east divided in the Leeward Islands as far as Dominica the Windward Islands as far as Trinidad and the Venezuelan Islands. Lesser Antilles map. Detail of a map in the 10th edition of the encyclopædia britannica 1902.

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