Windward Islands (Jurisdiction)
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
איי וינדוורד הבריטיים (סמכות שיפוט)
Name (Latin)
Windward Islands (Jurisdiction)
Coordinates
-61.2 -61.2 13.25 13.25 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing place name
West Indies (Federation)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Web. geog.
- Wikipedia, Dec. 30, 2005
- Columbia encycl., via WWW, Dec. 30, 2005
- Flags of the world website, Dec. 30, 2005
Wikipedia description:
The British Windward Islands was an administrative grouping of British colonies in the Windward Islands of the West Indies, existing from 1833 until 3 January 1958 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados (the seat of the governor until 1885, when it returned to its former status of a completely separate colony), Tobago (until 1889, when it was joined to Trinidad), and (from 1940) Dominica, previously included in the British Leeward Islands.
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