10/ Moving Windward now, let’s start with Grenada 🇬🇩....

10/ Moving Windward now, let’s start with Grenada 🇬🇩.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenada

Its main islands are Grenada and two dependencies, Carriacou (the largest) and Petite Martinique. It gained independence from the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 in 1974 and has an active underwater volcano called Kick ‘em Jenny. How about that for a name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_%27em_Jenny

Grenada is most famous for being invaded by the US 🇺🇸 in 1983
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Grenada

#geoweirdness

Like 12 July at 13:45 | Open on en.osm.town

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OpenCage 👉🌍

11/ Last up is Barbados 🇧🇧.

The easternmost island in the Caribbean is a continental island that is grouped culturally and politically with the Windward Islands despite not being a part of the volcanic arc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados

in 2021 Barbados removed the Queen of England 🇬🇧 as head of state and became a republic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Barbados

#geoweirdness

12 July at 13:47 | Open on en.osm.town

OpenCage 👉🌍 replied to OpenCage

12/ Of course, we could go on - there are dozens more islands worth writing about - but we had to stop somewhere.

We’ll share the link to the Caribmap archive we used to find some of the wonderful old maps shared in this thread and in the Greater Antilles thread (be prepared to lose a few hours browsing)

http://www.caribmap.org/index.php?id=gada&link=1851-gre-philip

12 July at 13:49 | Open on en.osm.town

OpenCage 👉🌍 replied to OpenCage

13/ Thanks for reading and sharing. What did we miss in our look at the #geoweirdness of the Lesser Antilles?

We’ll be back soon with more geoweirdness! Don’t forget to check out our previous threads (including threads about the Greater Antilles and British Overseas Territories) over on the blog:

https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads

Enjoy the weekend!

12 July at 13:52 | Open on en.osm.town