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took off in the mid-17th century, they brought in thousands of enslaved Africans to work the fields and mills as labourers. These enslaved Africans wrought a demographic revolution, replacing or joining with either the indigenous Caribs or the European settlers who were there as
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and low islands atop the Bahama Platform. The Bahama Platform is a carbonate block formed of marine sediments and fixed to the North American Plate. The emergent islands of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos likely formed from accumulated deposits of wind-blown sediments during
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The struggle between the northern Europeans and the Spanish spread southward in the mid to late seventeenth century, as English, Dutch, French and Spanish colonists, and in many cases, enslaved Africans first entered and then occupied the coast of
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Santiago-Valentin, Eugenio; Olmstead, Richard G. (2004). "Historical Biogeography of Caribbean Plants: Introduction to Current Knowledge and Possibilities from a Phylogenetic Perspective".
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limestone. Much of Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands were formed by the collision of the Caribbean Plate with the North American Plate and consist of 12
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Iturralde-Vinent, Manuel A. (1 September 2006). "Meso-Cenozoic Caribbean Paleogeography: Implications for the Historical Biogeography of the Region".
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Since no European country had occupied much of Central America, gradually, the English of Jamaica established alliances with the
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Cromwell, Jesse. "More than Slaves and Sugar: Recent Historiography of the Trans-imperial Caribbean and Its Sinew Populations".
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Mann, Paul; Draper, Grenville; Lewis, John F. (1991), "An overview of the geologic and tectonic development of Hispaniola",
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in the Greater Antilles ended, and continues today. The main arc of the Lesser Antilles runs north from the coast of
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are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.
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not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc. Based on proximity, these islands are sometimes grouped with the
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Between 1958 and 1962, the United Kingdom re-organised all their West Indies island territories (except the
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were indigenous to these islands, with evidence dating some of them back to the mid-6th millennium BCE.
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Khudoley, K. M.; Meyerhoff, A. A. (1971), "Paleogeography and Geological History of Greater Antilles",
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This article is about the island region in the Caribbean and North Atlantic Ocean. For other uses, see
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outcrop rising over 2,000 meters (6000'), while the rest of the island to the west consists mainly of
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From the 17th through the 19th century, the European colonial territories of the West Indies were the
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In the late 16th century, French, English and Dutch merchants and privateers began operations in the
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Graham, Alan (2003). "Geohistory Models and Cenozoic Paleoenvironments of the Caribbean Region".
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Cave, Roderick, and R. Cave. 1978. "Early Printing and the Book Trade in the West Indies".
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The West Indies are a geologically complex island system consisting of 7,000 islands and
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is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West Indies.
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sold the Danish West Indies to the United States for US$ 25 million in gold, per the
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in place in the early-18th century. In the Miskito Kingdom, the rise to power of the
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The oldest rocks in the Greater Antilles are located in Cuba. They consist of
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separating them from the Greater Antilles, and includes 19 active volcanoes.
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are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.
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are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.
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due to the subduction of the Atlantic seafloor of the North American and
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The Indies from both regions were further distinguished depending on the
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The Greater Antilles originated near the Isthmian region of present-day
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.
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of the West Indies has a unique origin and geologic composition.
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Island groups of the West Indies, in relation to the continental
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Biogeography of the West Indies : patterns and perspectives
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containing tall mountains and insular rivers. Each of the three
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Woods, Charles Arthur; Sergile, Florence Etienne, eds. (2001).
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The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment
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Caribbean History: From Pre-colonial Origins to the Present
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Island region of the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean
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aged limestone (201.3-145 million years ago), as well as
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Countries and territories by subregion and archipelago
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Ricklefs Robert; Bermingham Eldredge (27 July 2008).
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The current composition of the Indies is as follows:
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stretching over 3,000 km (2000 miles) from the
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London: John Murray. pp. 877–882. 3456:"History of the Caribbean (West Indies)" 1754:is geologically the oldest of the three 1698:(bottom left of the image, south of the 1233:(present-day; historically included the 55:239,681 km (92,541 sq mi) 5010:that with the ABC islands comprise the 3243: 2712:Isolated islands in the Lesser Antilles 1794:of different geological ages including 1758:and includes both the largest islands ( 1338:. To avoid confusion between the known 434: 247: 3760: 3435: 3416: 1874:. 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These islands include active 1361:Indias Orientales (East Indies) 1151:, or "river", specifically the 1420:The term was used to name the 1: 5174:Swedish Caribbean (1784–1878) 5149:British Caribbean (1586–1834) 5133:Spanish Caribbean (1492–1898) 3367:The Church in the West Indies 1837:or at least since the Middle 1774:) and the tallest mountains ( 1573:(Dutch West Indies), and the 1385:to which they belong. In the 6296:Middle East and North Africa 6001:Middle East and North Africa 5523:Central banks and currencies 5169:German Caribbean (1685-1693) 5164:Danish Caribbean (1672–1917) 5154:French Caribbean (1625–1817) 4429:Collectivity of Saint Martin 3933:geolounge (8 January 2012). 3849:International Geology Review 3151:culturally and politically. 1889:. 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