Talk:Antilles

message: please - someone tell the world how to pronounce the name of this place.
:Some say AN-tilleez, some say an-TIL-eez.  Guettarda 02:14, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I suspect both are acceptable.  The spelling is the same as the Netherlands Antilles. CaribDigita 04:56, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I added what I found in Random House Dictionary: an-TIL-eez. Lubrom (talk) 21:27, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: Are the Cayman Islands really regarded as part of the Lesser Antilles ?
-- Beardo 23:42, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I think they are in the Greater Antilles. //Big Adamsky 00:02, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes (I think): inferring from the entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Greater"/"Lesser" refer to island size, not necessarily position; the Cayman Islands (south of Cuba) are included in the latter. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 14:33, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Actually, numerous other sources (e.g., USGS, et al.) seem to indicate that these appellations are based more on island position, not size.  This is also complicated by the fact that the Caymans are not noted in the EB entey for the Lesser Antilles.  Egad!  Provisionally, I retract my prior assertion.  Forgive me! :) E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 00:41, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cayman Islands 

message: Among the most glaring errors in wikipedia is the continuing redirect from 
West Indies to Caribbean, which are as different as "squirrel" and "mammal". West Indies is the preferred term in English for the islands themselves; THAT should be the title of the main article on the subject, and it should be distinct from "Caribbean". At a minimum, "West Indies" might link to 
"Antilles". Someone more skilled at wiki-manoeuvers, please take up this task. Sfahey (talk) 20:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caribbean vs. Antilles vs. West Indies 

message: I don't have time to edit this but let it be known reading it gave me an ulcer:
:::"The Antilles (the same in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch) refers to the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. The Antilles are divided into two major groups: the "Greater Antilles" to the north including the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; and the smaller "Lesser Antilles" on the southeast—comprising the northerly Leeward Islands, the southeasterly Windward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Bahamas, though part of the West Indies, are generally not included among the Antillean islands.[1]"
Are you kidding me?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.79.146.2 (talk) 17:14, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What was the issue?Longinus876 (talk) 11:28, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whomever wrote the first paragraph should be shot. 

message: There are 3 bands with the name Antilles:
http://www.last.fm/music/Antilles
TimoKA (talk) 15:50, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If they ever get articles of their own, they will be inserted in Antilles (disambiguation). Lubrom (talk) 21:29, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bands 

message: Can anyone tell me why the very small Virgin Passage is used as the boundary between the Greater and Lesser Antilles instead of the more significant Anegada Passage? In my opinion, Anegada Passage would be a much better choice as all the islands east of this Passage are very small and spreading southerly towards South America. Also, by using Anegada Passage as the boundary, all three parts of the Virgin Islands would be included in the Greater Antilles. Right now, only the Spanish Virgin Islands is considered a part of the Greater Antilles, that's weird. 2001:8003:9008:1301:70BF:5EFB:E84A:9D69 (talk) 03:46, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I'd say Anegada, too.... Tiredmeliorist (talk) 22:08, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The boundary between the Greater and Lesser Antilles 

message: This keeps getting changed for some reason, so I won't start an edit war, but Wikipedia appears to be the only place that puts the ABC Islands with the Lesser Antilles. I'd accept Leeward Antilles (as they are called here), but "Leeward" is not "Lesser" -- different things.
On his 2nd voyage, Columbus entered the Caribbean Sea via the Dominica Passage and continued up the lee side of the northern Lesser Antilles. Pilots continued this practice from South America, going up the eastern (windward side) of the southern islands then cutting across to the western (leeward) sides after Dominica, thus the names Leeward Islands and Windward Islands that define the two parts of the Lesser Antilles (see geographer Carl Sauer's description of "The Carib Islands" on p. 192 of The Early Spanish Main).
Although I understand some sources include the ABCs, they are obviously a different part of the region, arguably not even in the same volcanic archipelago. The Spanish called them "Los Gigantes". Even the 1843 map used on our page calls them "Iles sous le vent" (Leeward Islands), not Lesser Antilles. Confusing, yes, but that is why most English-speakers just say ABC islands. Whoever keeps changing it should show their research. Tiredmeliorist (talk) 22:08, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  When did the ABC Islands become part of the Lesser Antilles?