)Windward Islands Dominica (Dominica) Martinique (Fr.

The British Virgin Islands were administered variously as part of the British Leeward Islands or with St. Kitts and Nevis, with an administrator representing the British Government on the Islands.

Geography and climate Dominica is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea, the northernmost of the Windward Islands (though it is sometimes considered the southernmost of the Leeward Islands).

The islands are traditionally divided in two geographic regions (with no administrative meaning) Barlavento Islands (windward), the six northern islands and Sotavento Islands (leeward), the four southern ones.

Brava (Portuguese for wild ) is an island in Cape Verde.

From S. Vicente this musical genre passed to the other islands, appearing then two schools, each one with its own style one in Barlavento, centered in Mindelo, and another in Sotavento, centered in Praia.

In 1829, pirates intercepted the Dutch brig Vhan Fredericka in the Leeward Passage between the Virgin Islands, and murdered most of the crew by making them walk the plank with cannonballs tied to their feet.

Captain Hume of HMS Scarborough reported on 6 February that a Pyrate Ship of 36 Guns and 250 men, and a Sloop of 10 Guns and 100 men were Said to be Cruizing amongst the Leeward Islands .

For example, a foehn wind is a down slope wind which occurs on the downwind side of a mountain range.

It is situated on the leeward side of the Sahyadri mountain range, which forms a barrier from the Arabian sea.

Turks Islands The Turks Islands are separated from the Caicos Islands by Turks Island Passage, which is more than deep, The islands form a chain that stretches north south.

Goa has more than forty estuarine, eight marine and about ninety riverine islands.

Islands of Isolation

The residual Maluku province includes Ambon (the site of the provincial capital) and the other Lease Islands the much larger islands of Seram and Buru the smaller islands lying south and east of Seram the Banda Islands, Gorong Islands, Watubela Islands, Kai Islands and Aru Islands and in the far south the Babar Islands, Damar Islands, Romang, Kisar, the Leti Islands, Tanimbar Islands, and Wetar.

The Brava style was much appreciated and cultivated in all Cape Verde by that time (there are records about E. Tavares being received in apotheosis in S. Vicente island and even the Barlavento composers wrote in Sotavento Creole, probably because the maintenance of the unstressed vowels in Sotavento Creoles gave more musicality).

Small surrounding islands are also part of various Sicilian provinces the Aeolian Islands (Messina), isle of Ustica (Palermo), Aegadian Islands (Trapani), isle of Pantelleria (Trapani) and Pelagian Islands (Agrigento).

Saint Kitts and Nevis are considered to be geographically part of the Leeward Islands.

Islands There are a number of islands spread all over the city's coastline.

Examples are Åland (Finland), Hong Kong (China), and Macau (China).

Cayman Islands

In Japanese, the Kuril Islands are known as the Chishima Islands (Kanji , literally, Thousand Islands Archipelago ), also known as the Kuriru Islands (Katakana , literally, Kuril Archipelago ).

Surrounding islands A large number of islands, islets, and rocks hug the coast of Crete.

Etymology The name (which is occasionally misspelled Macronesia in false analogy with Micronesia) is derived from the Greek words for islands of the fortunate μακάρων νῆσοι makárōn nêsoi , a term used by Ancient Greek geographers for islands to the west of the Straits of Gibraltar.

Panama Philippines Singapore Turks and Caicos Islands Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Virgin Islands , British Virgin Islands , US Vanuatu Samoa

The Revillagigedo Islands (, ) or Revillagigedo Archipelago are a group of four volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean, known for their unique ecosystem.

The initial focus was on the development of the administration of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

The Cook Islands national football team is the national team of the Cook Islands and is controlled by the Cook Islands Football Association.

The islands have a total land area of .

Modern geography names these islands as Macaronesia.

The country covers much of the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight.

The island is the largest of an archipelago of more than 30 islands, the majority of which lie within the Florianópolis municipality.

The governmental jurisdiction of Hokkaido incorporates several smaller islands, including Rishiri, Okushiri Island, and Rebun.

Falkland Islands

British Virgin Islands

Savai'i is the largest of the Samoan islands and the sixth largest Polynesian island after New Zealand's North, South and Stewart Islands and the Hawaiian islands of Hawaiʻi and Maui.

The northern (Kagoshima) islands are collectively called the Satsunan Islands, while the southern part of the chain (Okinawa Prefecture) are called the Ryukyu Islands in Japanese.

There are thirty minor islands in Iceland, including the lightly populated Grímsey and the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago.

The Cayman Islands national football team is the national team of the Cayman Islands and is controlled by the Cayman Islands Football Association.

The British Virgin Islands national football team is the national team of the British Virgin Islands and is controlled by the British Virgin Islands Football Association.

It is located at the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, between Java to the west and Lombok to the east.

Geography The Corn Islands consist of the Big Corn Island ( Isla Grande del Maíz often simply referred to as Corn Island Isla del Maíz ), with an area of , and Little Corn Island ( Isla Pequeña del Maíz) , with an area of .

It comprises two island groups, the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands, separated by the 10 N parallel, with the Andamans to the north of this latitude, and the Nicobars to the south.

However in some islands, mostly Lesser Antilles (such as the British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, as well as Turks and Caicos Islands) and the Bahamas, most passenger cars are still LHD equipped (despite driving on the left), being imported from the United States or Brazil.

You can see the Islands there are eight islands that pop out of the water.

The Caicos Islands are separated by the Caicos Passage from the closest Bahamian islands, Mayaguana and Great Inagua.