Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory, a volcanic island in the south of the Leeward Islands in the West Indies, named by Christopher Columbus in 1493 after Mount Montserrat in Spain. The island is 18 kilometers long and 11 kilometers wide. The island has three major volcanoes and receives 1,525 mm of annual rainfall. Montserrat …
Anguilla is one of the fourteen British Overseas Territories, located in the northern part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, with Elizabeth II as head of state and a governor acting as queen and appointing governors to conduct local affairs. The name Anguilla is adapted from Spanish or Anguille from French, meaning European …
Bermuda is located in the North Atlantic Ocean, part of North America, and is a British Overseas Territory. It is about 900 kilometers from the American mainland, 1,100 nautical miles northeast of Miami, Florida, on the east coast of the United States, and 840 nautical miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The closest landmark …
The British Virgin Islands, or “British Virgin Islands”, also known as the “British Virgin Islands”, is a British Overseas Territory located in the Caribbean, east of Puerto Rico. The British Virgin Islands, together with the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands and the Western Virgin Islands, are known as the Virgin Islands. The Devil’s Bay, British Virgin …
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a self-governing state of the United States in the Caribbean, 1,600 kilometers southeast of Miami, Florida, with San Juan as its capital. Puerto Rico means “rich seaport” in Spanish. Puerto Rico is the smallest of the four large islands of the Greater Antilles, located east of the Dominican Republic …
The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, or T&T for short, is an island nation located in the southern Caribbean Sea in Central America, off the coast of Venezuela. The country consists of two major islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and 21 smaller islands, with the majority of the country’s population concentrated on the island of Trinidad. …
Barbados is an island nation located on the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the easternmost island of the West Indies, with Bridgetown as its capital. The island covers an area of 430 square kilometers and is mainly lowland with some hills in the interior of the island. Barbados is located at …
Grenada is a country in the southern part of the Windward Islands in the West Indies of the Americas. The main religion is Catholicism, and it is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The capital city is St. George’s. Agriculture and tourism are the basis of the economy, with nutmeg, the main agricultural product, …
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, known as Saint Vincent, or Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, is a small country in Latin America, located in the southern part of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, between Saint Lucia and Grenada. The population is predominantly black and mulatto. The main industries of …
St. Lucia is an island nation in the Eastern Caribbean Sea adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. It is north of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and south of the French Martinique, and is part of the Lesser Antilles. The capital city is Castries. Saint Lucia is the only one named after an actual female historical …
