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  • Antilles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The Antilles (the same in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch) refers to the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea.

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    The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen   (help · info)), previously known as the Netherlands West Indies or Dutch Antilles/West Indies, is part of the Lesser ...

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    Antilles School is an independent, toddler through grade 12, coeducational college preparatory day school located on St Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Antilles, term applied to the whole of the West Indies except the Bahamas. The Greater Antilles include Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles, extend in an arc from Puerto Rico to the northeastern coast of South America. They include Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, southern group of the Netherlands Antilles, and, usually, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.



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