Islands
The Leeward Antilles comprise (roughly from west to east):
- ABC islands:
- Aruba (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
- Curaçao (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
- Bonaire (Netherlands)
- Venezuelan archipelago:
- Las Aves
- Los Roques
- La Orchilla
- La Blanquilla
- Los Hermanos
- Los Testigos
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Famous quotes containing the word islands:
“What are the islands to me
if you are lost
what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
and Delos, the clasp
of the white necklace?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“we are so many
and many within themselves
travel to far islands but no one
asks for their story....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)