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Title: West Indies

Name: Kiley E.

Date: 2018, 2-16-18

Color Group: Yellow

Below is all links that I found that are in the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, or the Bahamas.

Hispanoila On December 5th 1492, Christopher Columbus renamed Hispaniola to Espanol, which means little Spain. Columbus then had one of his ships sink, the Santa Maria. He then left 39 men and sailed 70 miles east to the Dominicain Republic. Read more of this article to find out more of what happened to Columbus and how he changed Hispaniola's history.

Monserrat In this article you can learn about Montserrat's land, people, economy, government, society, culture life, and history. Monserrat is a tiny island, it is 11 miles long and 7 miles wide, and mostly covered by volcanoes. African American people mostly live on this island, the official langaugfe is English, and because of one of the valcanoe erupting, more then 2/3 of the popualtion of people left for the United Kingdom. Although there has been damage because of valcanoes, Montserrat is still a self-governing territory. sadly, Monserrat did have slaves and they were taken there in the 1660, but thankfully don't have slaves anymore andebveryone there lives in peace.

Saint Martin The Carribean island is recovering from Hurricane Ima. Hurricane AIrma hit there, and because of it their twoairports are closed, so people can't go to this island over an airplane. Although, there are still more than a dozen hotels and morethan 60 resturants. So, if you would like to go here, you could travel by boat.

Little Cayman Little Cayman is smaller than Monserrat, with only ten miles long and one mile wide. It's population is less then 170 people. This would be theperfect relaxing trip to take.

Date of Article: September 29, 2017

Headline: West Indies

Author: Bridget M. Brereton, Colin Graham Clarke

Source of the Article: Encyclopedia Britannica

Vocbulary words and there defintion:

1. Physiographics- science of physical geography

2. Constitute- make or create

3. Mountainous- the nautre of a mountain

Summary:

Who: Creater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Bahamas

What: Islands, Mountains

When: 1800

Where: West Indies

Why: To form islands

"I Wonder Questions": think of three (3) questions that you could ask about the article that were not answered in the article or were only partially answered.

1.How are there this many islands in all of these places?

2. Why is it called Greater and Lesser Antilles?

3. How many poeple live on one of these islnads?