Leeward Antilles

territories of other nations. In addition, that large number includes islets (very small rocky islands); cay's (small, low islands composed largely of coral or sand) and a few inhabited reefs” (Caribbean). The Caribbean includes the Greater and Lesser Antilles, the Caribbean Sea and all of the islands located to the to the north of South America, east of Central America and Mexico,

turned west and drifted over Cuba for four days before moving northeastward, becoming an extratropical cyclone. During its rampant rage across the Caribbean’s Hurricane Flora affected areas such as Northern South America, Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Leeward Antilles, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Cuba, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bermuda, and Atlantic Canada; doing nearly 528 million dollars in damage, and taking anywhere from 7,186-8,000 lives. In Tobago, the damage from Flora

Saint Martin/Sint Maarten is an island in the northeast Caribbean and is a part of the Leeward Islands. It is a small island that is divided into two different political entities. The Southern part is Dutch, called St. Maarten; the Northern part is French, called Saint Martin. Although these are its official name it has obtained other nicknames such as “Soualiga” (land of Salt) or the friendly island because of its salt deposits and the close relations that the Dutch and French have saring the island

Water Island and St Thomas. St John is 4 miles east of St Thomas, which has the port city of Charlotte Amalie, the territorial capital, and the only major airport for the region. Geographically, the US Virgin Islands are part of the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles and were formerly known as the Danish West Indies until they were sold to the US by Denmark in 1916. St John, only about twenty square miles in area with a permanent population of slightly less than 5000, is a resort destination for

MONTSERRAT CASE STUDY Montserrat is an island in the Caribbean that was previously a British Colony. The island is approximately 16 km long and 11 km wide. Montserrat is nicknamed “The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean” due to its vast green forest that covers the majority of the island. The countries capital, Plymouth is on the South East coast with Soufriere Hills to the North West. The island has an estimated population of 5,189. Montserrat has a literacy rate of 97% for both men and women, and

Sarah Tominaga Gallego 4 History 8 March 2, 2017 The Great Galveston Hurricane Galveston, Texas is located 50 miles southeast of Houston. It is known as a barrier island on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States. The city Galveston, Texas was the home of around 37,000 residents in the early 1900’s. This island grew from being a small settlement into one of the wealthiest cities in the country. It was normal for people to visit Galveston, Texas for it was known as a "tourist attraction". There

1. determiner: Words such as “a/an,” “the,” “some,” and “my” are determiners, which are utilized to “determine” what nouns mean. “A/an” and “the” can be considered to be the most significant determiners. “A/an” and “the” also are known as articles. A more comprehensive list of determiners would include “any,” “each,” “every,” “no,” “his,” “this/that,” “these/those,” “his,” “her,” “its,” “your,” “our,” and “their.” A concept basic to articles is countability, and they pose difficult challenges for

statistics available from the ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database in 2009, Anguilla garnered the sixth spot as one of the top twenty countries with the highest per capita cell phone use. Anguilla is the most northern of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles in the