Antilles

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archipelago geographical region group of islands

The Antilles are a large group of Caribbean islands forming the main archipelago that separates the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, including both the Greater and Lesser Antilles.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
French West Indies 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf archipelago ⓘ
geographical region ⓘ
group of islands ⓘ
borders Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
climate tropical ⓘ
contains Aruba ⓘ
Barbados NERFINISHED ⓘ
Bonaire ⓘ
Cuba ⓘ
Curaçao ⓘ
surface form: Curacao

Guadeloupe ⓘ
Hispaniola ⓘ
Jamaica ⓘ
Martinique ⓘ
Puerto Rico ⓘ
Trinidad NERFINISHED ⓘ
extendsFrom off the coast of Florida ⓘ
extendsTo near the coast of Venezuela ⓘ
from Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
geologicalContext Caribbean Plate ⓘ
hasPart Bahamas (in a broader geographic sense, sometimes grouped with the Antilles) ⓘ
Greater Antilles ⓘ
Leeward Antilles ⓘ
Leeward Islands ⓘ
Lesser Antilles ⓘ
Virgin Islands ⓘ
Windward Islands ⓘ
hasSubregion Greater Antilles ⓘ
Lesser Antilles ⓘ
historicalContext colonial Caribbean ⓘ
isPartOf West Indies ⓘ
knownFor beaches ⓘ
biodiversity ⓘ
tourism ⓘ
languageRegion Dutch ⓘ
English ⓘ
French ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ
locatedIn Americas ⓘ
Caribbean Sea ⓘ
Northern Hemisphere ⓘ
Tropics ⓘ
Tropical Northwestern Atlantic ⓘ
surface form: Western Atlantic region

Western Hemisphere ⓘ
oceanicContext Caribbean Sea ⓘ
Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
surface form: North Atlantic Ocean
partOf Caribbean ⓘ
hurricane belt ⓘ
separates Caribbean Sea ⓘ

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Americas → containsSubregion → Antilles ⓘ
Les Abymes → isPartOf → Antilles ⓘ
this entity surface form: French West Indies
Cayo Luis Peña → locatedIn → Antilles ⓘ
Cayo Tiburón → locatedIn → Antilles ⓘ
Culebrita → locatedIn → Antilles ⓘ
Marie-Galante → locatedIn → Antilles ⓘ
this entity surface form: French West Indies
Leeward Islands → subregionOf → Antilles ⓘ