The
Lesser Antilles are a long chain of islands, wrapped around the eastern end of the
Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the
Atlantic Ocean. The Lesser Antilles are (generally from north to south): the
US Virgin Islands,
British Virgin Islands,
Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Antigua and Barbuda,
Montserrat,
Guadaloupe,
Dominica,
Martinique,
Saint Lucia,
Barbados,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Grenada,
Trinidad and Tobago, the islands off the coast of
Venezuela, the
Netherlands Antilles and
Aruba.
The islands of Bonaire and Curacao, Saint Martin, Saint Eustasius[?] and Saba[?] form the Netherlands Antilles, with the first two located off the Venezuelan coast and the latter three located in the northeastern corner of the Caribbean.