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West Indies
West Indies archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. The archipelago, sometimes called the Antilles, is divided into three groups: the Bahamas... Read more |
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Windward Islands
Windward Islands southern group of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, curving generally southward for c.300 mi (480 km) from the Leeward Islands toward NE Venezuela. Excluding Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago , which are in the region but are not part of the group, the Windward Islands... Read more |
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Society Islands
Society Islands island group (2002 pop. 214,445), South Pacific, a part of French Polynesia . The group comprises the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands (total land area c.650 sq mi/1,680 sq km), two clusters of volcanic and coral islands lying in a 450-mi (724-km) chain. Only eight of the... Read more |
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Lesser Antilles
Lesser Antilles, West Indies Caribbees A group of islands comprising the Virgin Islands, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, and some small islands off the Venezuelan coast. The former name comes from the Carib tribe who inhabited many of the islands when they were... Read more |
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Battle of the Saints
Saints, battle of the, 1782. This was the last important naval action in the American War of Independence. The loss of naval superiority in the western Atlantic in 1781 forced Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown. The French and Spanish then began picking off British West Indian islands and an... Read more |
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Mariana Islands
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Island biogeography
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Treasure Island
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HURRICANE WATCHERS TRACK THREE STORMS, BUT NONE YET A THREAT TRACKERS WATCH...
...continued to sweep the East Coast...Eight gathered over the southeast...the National Hurricane Center in Miami...For now, the Hurricane Center expects...could become a hurricane as it moves...the northern Leeward ... |
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Tropical Storm Sweeps Through Caribbean
...past the northern Leeward Islands and moved...Turks and Caicos Islands, the National...Culebra and Vieques, islands off Puerto Rico...U.S. Virgin Islands at mid-afternoon...passed through the island chain. He said...Alberto, ... |
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S.C. Braces for Approaching Hurricane
...was expected to sweep into Charleston...this month, Hurricane Charley blew over South Carolina...southwest Florida.Hurricane warnings were...The National Hurricane Center posted...miles east of the Leeward ... |
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ISLANDS GIRD FOR GEORGES' IMPACT.(MAIN)
...Rico -- With Hurricane Georges, the...smaller Caribbean islands south and east...Three damaging hurricanes have struck Puerto Rico over the past decade...residents of the island reluctantly...again after a hurricane warning ... |
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S.C. Braces for Approaching Tropical Storm
...clouds were over southern Texas...expected to sweep into Charleston...storm becomes a hurricane when its winds...Atlantic Ocean, Hurricane Frances strengthened...Category 4 hurricane with maximum...east of the Leeward ... |
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Hanna dumps more rain on flood-plagued Haiti
...authorities issued a hurricane warning for northwest...was expected to sweep across the Bahamas...S. National Hurricane Center in Miami...Storm Fay and Hurricane Gustav in late...of Grand Turk Island Wednesday afternoon...northeastern ... |
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Hanna batters Haiti, takes aim at U.S. coastline.(News)
...expected to sweep across the...National Hurricane Center in Miami...Storm Fay and Hurricane Gustav in late...the Bahamas over the next couple...could regain hurricane force today...northeast of the Leeward ... |
 "Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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XS TRAVEL; A taste of PARADISE.(Features)
...rises swiftly over the surrounding...hills. A pelican sweeps its broad wings...Eastern Caribbean island of Antigua...and work by "island time", using...Part of the Leeward Islands, Antigua was...relax and watch ... |
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Ophelia is forecast to turn away
...the National Hurricane Center still...it passes the Leeward Islands. Forecasters...will become a hurricane early next week...the north will sweep into the Florida...showers and storms over to the East Coast...remainder of ... |
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