Where are the windward islands?

Answer 1

Actually not that simple.

There are TWO sets of Windward Islands.

1. The better known group are in the eastern Caribbean sea and are: Martinique, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Saint Vincent, The Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago

2. The second lot (also known as the Iles du vent) are part of the Society Islands in French polynesia in the Pacific ocean and are a group of small islands including Tahiti, Mehetia and Tetiaroa.

Answer 2

Name and geography
The Windward Islands are called such because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing winds in the whole West Indies blow north. The trans-Atlantic currents and winds that provided the fastest route across the ocean brought these ships to the rough dividing line between the Windward and Leeward islands.

The Antillian Windward Islands are :

Martinique (French; all the other are part of the Commonwealth of Nations)
Saint Lucia
Barbados
Saint Vincent
The Grenadines
Grenada
Trinidad
Tobago

British colonial entity
The name Windward islands was also used to refer to a British colony on several of these islands, existing between 1833 and 1960 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, St Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados (seat of the governor to 1885, when it became a separate colony), Tobago (to 1889 when it was joined to Trinidad), and Dominica (from 1940, when it was transferred from the Leeward Islands colony to the Windward Islands).

The colony was known as the Federal Colony of the Windward Islands from 1871 to June 1956, and then as the Territory of the Windward Islands to its dissolution in 1960.

Its capital was Saint George's on Grenada (originally Bridgetown on Barbados, 1871-1885). They were not a single colony, but a confederation of separate colonies with a common governor-in-chief, while each island retained its own institutions, and they had neither legislature, laws, revenue nor tariff in common. There was, however, a common court of appeal for the group as well as for Barbados, composed of the chief justices of the respective islands, and there was also a common audit system, while the islands unite in maintaining certain institutions of general utility.

Answer 3

Windward Islands, southern group of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, curving generally southward for c.300 mi (480 km) from the Leeward Islands toward NE Venezuela. Excluding Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, which are in the region but are not part of the group, the Windward Islands consist of the French overseas dept. of Martinique and the former British Windward Islands. (c.700 sq mi/1,810 sq km). The former British islands consist of the independent states of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Answer 4

The name Windward islands was also used to refer to a British colony on several of these islands, existing between 1833 and 1960 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, St Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados (seat of the governor to 1885, when it became a separate colony), Tobago (to 1889 when it was joined to Trinidad), and Dominica (from 1940, when it was transferred from the Leeward Islands colony to the Windward Islands).

The colony was known as the Federal Colony of the Windward Islands from 1871 to June 1956, and then as the Territory of the Windward Islands to its dissolution in 1960.

Its capital was Saint George's on Grenada (originally Bridgetown on Barbados, 1871-1885). They were not a single colony, but a confederation of separate colonies with a common governor-in-chief, while each island retained its own institutions, and they had neither legislature, laws, revenue nor tariff in common. There was, however, a common court of appeal for the group as well as for Barbados, composed of the chief justices of the respective islands, and there was also a common audit system, while the islands unite in maintaining certain institutions of general utility.

Answer 5

They are a group of islands located off the the NE coast of Venezuela and include Martinique, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Granada. They were discovered by Columbus while in the service of Spain, but not colonized by the Spanish. The French and British competed for ownership and dominance... the present arrangement was established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

Answer 6

Just north of Venezuela, Turks And Caicos every few years try to join Canada as a Province. (The Canucks have considered the proposition, but found the idea of mounties in swim suits and on surf boards with those hats and whistles just to silly)
it is actually a chain of islands, the windwards near to Venezuela, and the leeward isles. north of them

Answer 7

Antilles or Dutch West Indies includes Saba Stacia Nevis,St kitts,San Maarten

Answer 8

Caribbean

Answer 9

Somewhere near Figi

Answer 10

there ya go:
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Windwrds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windward_Islands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windward_Islands_(Society_Islands)

http://www.longpassages.org/windward_islands.htm