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Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a long chain of islands, wrapped around the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The Lesser Antilles are (generally from north to south): the US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadaloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, the islands off the coast of Venezuela, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.

The islands of Bonaire and Curacao, Saint Martin, Saint Eustasius[?] and Saba[?] form the Netherlands Antilles, with the first two located off the Venezuelan coast and the latter three located in the northeastern corner of the Caribbean.



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