Lesser Antilles

Stretching from the waters east of Puerto Rico south toward Trinidad and Tobago are these tropical pearls bordering the eastern extent of the Caribbean Sea. The Lesser Antilles are typically grouped as the Leeward Islands (U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Martin/Maarten, St. Barts, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, and Dominica) to the north and the Windward Islands (Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada) to the south. Many of these islands are now sovereign nations; some are territories of Great Britain, France, Netherlands, and the United States.