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The Danish West Indies became an insular area of the U.S., called the United States Virgin Islands. Between 1958 and 1962, the United Kingdom re-organised all their West Indies island territories (except the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas) into the West Indies Federation. They hoped that the Federation would coalesce into a single ...
[4] [5] Still these groups plus the high Taíno are considered Island Arawak, part of a widely diffused assimilating culture, a circumstance witnessed even today by names of places in the New World; for example localities or rivers called Guamá are found in Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. Guamá was the name of famous Taíno who fought the Spanish ...
The West Indies (red), which includes the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago. The Antilles [1] is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east. The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the Greater Antilles and the ...
The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean.The term "Arawak" has been applied at various times to different Indigenous groups, from the Lokono of South America to the Taíno (Island Arawaks), who lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (/ ˌ ɡ r ɛ n. ə ˈ d iː n z / ⓘ GREN-ə-DEENZ), sometimes known simply as Saint Vincent or SVG, [9] is an island country in the eastern Caribbean.It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the southern end of the eastern border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
The state of Florida is the closest point in the U.S. mainland to the Greater Antilles, while the Florida Keys, though not part of the Greater Antilles, is an island group north of Cuba. Puerto Rico ’s historic district, Old San Juan , contains 16th-century architecture, including the Fort San Felipe del Morro , the Fort San Cristóbal , the ...
Island groups comprising the West Indies in the Caribbean Situated largely on the Caribbean plate , the region has thousands of islands, islets , reefs , and cays . [ 7 ] Island arcs delineate the northern and eastern edges of the Caribbean Sea : [ 7 ] the Greater Antilles in the north and the Lesser Antilles , which includes the Leeward ...
The Caribbean with West Indies Federation members in red. The short-lived federation was made up of British West Indies colonies from 1958–62.. Between 1958 and 1962, there was a short-lived federation between several English-speaking Caribbean countries, called the West Indies Federation, which consisted of all the island nations (except the Bahamas), and the territories (excluding Bermuda ...