Location - Caribbean Windwards
Chartering on the Caribbean Windward Islands
The Caribbean Windward Islands are so named due to being on the windier and wetter side of the Lesser Antilles and consist of Martinique, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada Trinidad and Tobago. Together all the islands make up the group of Caribbean islands known as the Lesser Antilles. Today the island group of the West Indies are one of the World's most popular tourist travel destinations with a huge demand within the Caribbean cruise industry. The region enjoys high temperatures all year and attracts large numbers of people seeking a holiday or vacation on an idyllic tropical Caribbean island paradise The Windward Islands are called such because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds in the West Indies blow east to west. The trans-Atlantic currents and winds that provided the fastest route across the ocean brought these ships to the rough dividing line between the Windward and Leeward islands. Vessels in the Atlantic slave trade departing from the African Gold Coast and Gulf of Guinea would first encounter the southeasternmost islands of the Lesser Antilles in their west-northwesterly heading to final destinations in the Caribbean and North and Central America. The Antillean Windward Islands are : - Martinique - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent - Grenadines - Grenada - Dominica 
|
