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The British West Indies are those islands in the Caribbean that are or were British colonies.Most are now independent states, after an attempt at a West Indies Federation.
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
A few remained or reverted to being British colonies.
Anguilla, BermudaThis article is about the island of Bermuda. See Bermuda sloop and Bermuda rig for the associated sailing terms''. Bermuda is a self-governing island Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, situated in the Atlantic Ocean. In the early 20th century, as m, British Virgin IslandsThe British Virgin Islands are a group of islands located in the northeast Carribean. They include Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke, Peter Island, Salt Island, Beef Island, Cooper Island, Ginger Island, Norman Island, and many other small isl, Cayman IslandsThe Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the West Indies, comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman. First visited by Christopher Columbus on May 10, 1503 during his fourth and final voyage to the, MontserratMontserrat is an island in the Caribbean Sea, named after the mountain of the same name (located near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain see Montserrat (mountain by Christopher Columbus in 1493. Montserrat is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. Much of and the Turks and Caicos IslandsThe Turks and Caicos Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the Caribbean, southeast of the Bahamas, at 21°45'N, 71°35'W. The thirty islands total 166 sq. 430 kmē), primarily of low, flat li.
The British West Indies still make up a composite cricketcricket match in progress. The beige strip is the cricket pitch. The people wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires. Cricket is a team game played between two teams of eleven players each. It originated in its modern form in England, and i team that successfully competes in test matches and one-day internationals. The West Indies cricket team also includes the South AmericaSouth America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. South America is situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It became attached to North America only recently, geologically speaking, win nation of GuyanaThe Co-operative Republic of Guyana is a nation of northern South America. It constitutes the western part of the wider region of Guiana (an Amerindian word meaning Land of Many Waters , and is bordered to the east by Suriname, to the south by Brazil, to, a former British colony.
