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[[File:LocationAntilles.svg|400px|thumb|The [[West Indies]] (red), which includes the Antilles and the [[Lucayan Archipelago]].]] |
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The '''Antilles'''<ref>({{IPAc-en|æ|n|ˈ|t|ɪ|l|iː|z}}; {{lang-gcf|label=[[Antillean Creole]]|Antiy}}; {{lang-es|Antillas}}; {{lang-fr|Antilles}}; {{lang-nl|Antillen}}; {{lang-ht|Antiy}}; {{lang-pap|Antiyas}}; [[Jamaican Patois]]: ''Antiliiz'')</ref> 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 '''Antilles'''<ref>({{IPAc-en|æ|n|ˈ|t|ɪ|l|iː|z}}; {{lang-gcf|label=[[Antillean Creole]]|Antiy}}; {{lang-es|Antillas}}; {{lang-fr|Antilles}}; {{lang-nl|Antillen}}; {{lang-ht|Antiy}}; {{lang-pap|Antiyas}}; [[Jamaican Patois]]: ''Antiliiz'')</ref> 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. |
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The Antillean islands are divided |
The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the [[Greater Antilles]] and the [[Lesser Antilles]]. The Greater Antilles includes the [[Cayman Islands]] and larger islands of [[Cuba]], [[Hispaniola]] (subdivided into the nations of the [[Dominican Republic]] and [[Haiti]]) and [[Navassa Island]], [[Jamaica]], and [[Puerto Rico]]. The Lesser Antilles contains the northerly [[Leeward Islands]] and the southeasterly [[Windward Islands]] as well as the [[Leeward Antilles]] just north of [[Venezuela]]. The [[Lucayan Archipelago]] (consisting of [[The Bahamas]] and the [[Turks and Caicos Islands]]), though a part of the [[West Indies]], is generally not included among the Antillean islands.<ref>Some sources, such as Encarta in Spanish, include the Bahamas in the Antilles. [http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761555176/Antillas.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004040241/http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761555176/antillas.html|date=2009-10-04}} {{in lang|es}}. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091004040241/http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761555176/antillas.html Archived] 2009-10-31.</ref> |
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[[Geography|Geographically]], the Antillean islands are generally considered a subregion of [[North America]]. Culturally speaking, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico – and sometimes the whole of the Antilles – are included in [[Latin America]], although some sources use the phrase "[[Latin America and the Caribbean]]" instead (see [[Latin America#Etymology and definitions|Latin America]], "In Contemporary Usage").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1985/4/85.04.04.x.html#e|title=85.04.04: The Geophysics and Cultural Aspects of the Greater Antilles|website=teachersinstitute.yale.edu|access-date=2017-11-21|archive-date=2018-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323134652/http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1985/4/85.04.04.x.html#e|url-status=live}}</ref> |
[[Geography|Geographically]], the Antillean islands are generally considered a subregion of [[North America]]. Culturally speaking, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico – and sometimes the whole of the Antilles – are included in [[Latin America]], although some sources use the phrase "[[Latin America and the Caribbean]]" instead (see [[Latin America#Etymology and definitions|Latin America]], "In Contemporary Usage").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1985/4/85.04.04.x.html#e|title=85.04.04: The Geophysics and Cultural Aspects of the Greater Antilles|website=teachersinstitute.yale.edu|access-date=2017-11-21|archive-date=2018-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323134652/http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1985/4/85.04.04.x.html#e|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In terms of [[geology]], the Greater Antilles are mostly made up of [[Continental crust|continental rock]] accreted on the [[North American Plate]] from relative movement of the [[Caribbean Plate]]. The Lesser Antilles are mostly young [[volcano|volcanic]] islands created by the [[Lesser Antilles subduction zone]]. |
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== Background ==<!-- This section is linked from [[Caribbean]] --> |
== Background ==<!-- This section is linked from [[Caribbean]] --> |
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 Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles includes the Cayman Islands and larger islands of Cuba, Hispaniola (subdivided into the nations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and Navassa Island, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles contains the northerly Leeward Islands and the southeasterly Windward Islands as well as the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Lucayan Archipelago (consisting of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands), though a part of the West Indies, is generally not included among the Antillean islands.[2]
Geographically, the Antillean islands are generally considered a subregion of North America. Culturally speaking, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico – and sometimes the whole of the Antilles – are included in Latin America, although some sources use the phrase "Latin America and the Caribbean" instead (see Latin America, "In Contemporary Usage").[3]
In terms of geology, the Greater Antilles are mostly made up of continental rock accreted on the North American Plate from relative movement of the Caribbean Plate. The Lesser Antilles are mostly young volcanic islands created by the Lesser Antilles subduction zone.
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.[4]
After the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus's expedition in what was later called the West Indies, the European powers realized that the dispersed lands constituted an extensive archipelago in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. The Antilles were called multiple names before their current name became the norm. Early Spanish visitors called them the Windward Islands (today having a narrower definition). They were also called the Forward Islands by 18th-century British.[5] Thereafter, the term Antilles was commonly assigned to the formation, and "Sea of the Antilles" became a common alternative name for the Caribbean Sea in various European languages.[citation needed]
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N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies. ^These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which *the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands. †Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically. ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ~Disputed territories administered by Colombia. #Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally. |
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