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Coordinates:12°11′10″N68°59′22″W / 12.18611°N 68.98944°W /12.18611; -68.98944

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Island group in the Caribbean

Not to be confused withLeeward Islands orLesser Antilles.For the French Polynesian archipelago, seeLeeward Islands (Society Islands).

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La Tortuga Island,Federal Dependencies ofVenezuela

TheLeeward Antilles (Dutch:Benedenwindse Eilanden;Spanish:islas de Sotavento) are a chain ofislands in theCaribbean, specifically part of the southerly islands of theLesser Antilles (and, in turn, theAntilles and theWest Indies) along the southeastern fringe of theCaribbean Sea, just north of theVenezuelan coast of theSouth American mainland. The Leeward Antilles, while among the Lesser Antilles, are not to be confused with theLeeward Islands (also of the Lesser Antilles) to the northeast.

Largely lacking involcanic activity, the Leeward Antillesisland arc occurs along the deformed southern edge of theCaribbean Plate and was formed by the plate'ssubduction under theSouth American Plate.Recent studies indicate that the Leeward Antilles areaccreting toSouth America.

Islands

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The Leeward Antilles comprise (roughly from west to east):

ABC islands (a part of theKingdom of the Netherlands)
- Aruba, a constituent country of theKingdom of the Netherlands
- Bonaire, a part of theCaribbean Netherlands (public body of theNetherlands proper)
- Curaçao, a constituent country of theKingdom of the Netherlands

Federal Dependencies of Venezuela^{[note 1]}

State of Nueva Esparta (Venezuela)

State of Falcón (Venezuela)
- Paraguaná/Cora Island

Notes

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^Also includesAves Island, geographically in the Caribbean Sea but not a part of the Leeward Antilles.
^East of theState of Nueva Esparta.
^East of theState of Sucre.

References

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Levander, Alan, et al. 2006 (28 February). Evolution of the Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary. (abstract;article)Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 87(9): 97,100.
Levander, Alan, et al. 2006 (accessed 27 August).Collaborative Research: Crust-Mantle Interactions During Continental Growth and High-Pressure Rock Exhumation at an Oblique Arc-Continent Collision Zone: Geology of Northeastern Venezuela.SE Caribbean Plate Boundary Continental Dynamics Project. Houston, TX: Rice University.

Hispaniola	Dominican Republic Haiti

Lesser
Antilles

Leeward
Islands

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Guadeloupe
- La Désirade
- Les Saintes
- Marie-Galante
Montserrat
Saba^{^*}
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sint Eustatius^{^*}

Saint Martin^{^}	Collectivity of Saint Martin Sint Maarten
Virgin Islands	British Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean

Leeward
Antilles

Insular Venezuela
- Federal Dependencies
- Nueva Esparta

ABC islands	Aruba Bonaire^* Curaçao

Windward
Islands

Barbados^†
Trinidad and Tobago^†

Lucayan
Archipelago

Bahamas

Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean
Sea

Aves Island
San Andrés and Providencia
- Bajo Nuevo Bank^~
- Serranilla Bank^~

Caribbean
continental
zone

Quintana Roo
- Cozumel

Central America	Belize Honduras Bay Islands Izabal Limón Corn Islands North Caribbean Coast South Caribbean Coast Panama
South America	Colombian Caribbean Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:

Yucatán Peninsula	Campeche Petén Yucatán
The Guianas	Amapá French Guiana Venezuelan Guayana Guyana Guayana Esequiba^ǂ Tigri Area^ǂ Suriname

N.B.: Territories initalics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^{^}These three form theSSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise theDutch Caribbean, of which^*theBES islands are not directKingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of theNetherlands.

^†Physiographically, thesecontinental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

^ǂDisputed territories administered byGuyana.^~Disputed territories administered byColombia.

^#Bermuda is an isolatedNorth Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with theNorthern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.

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