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The Lesser Antilles [1] is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, ... Map of the Lesser Antilles, 1780. History before European arrival. The First Islanders
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.
Module:Location map/data/Lesser Antilles is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Lesser Antilles. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Reverted to version as of 14:01, 13 October 2010 (UTC); please don't change the size of the map, some templates need the correct size 12:00, 24 September 2018 512 × 439 (114 KB)
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 Leeward Islands are labelled on the map's middle right side. The islands were created mostly by volcanoes in the Lesser Antilles subduction zone. Some are still active. Notable eruptions occurred in Montserrat in the 1990s and in 2009 to 2010. At 1,467 metres or 4,813 feet, the highest point is La Grande Soufrière in Guadeloupe.
Lesser Antilles and Caribbean Sea: A tropical wave is producing disorganized thunderstorms and gusty winds across portions of the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and over the adjacent ...
Locator map of the Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles subduction zone is a convergent plate boundary on the seafloor along the eastern margin of the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc. In this subduction zone, oceanic crust of the South American plate is being subducted under the Caribbean plate.