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Encyclopedia Britannica



WINDWARD ISLANDS

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 716 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WINDWARD ISLANDS , a group and colony in the West Indies. They consist of the British
island
  of St Lucia, St Vincent and
Grenada
 , with a chain of small islands, the Grenadines, between the two latter islands. They are not a single colony, but a confederation of three
separate
  colonies with a common
governor
 -in-
chief
 , who resides at St George's,
Grenada
 . Each
island
  retains its own institutions, and they have neither legislature,
laws
 , revenue nor tariff in common. There is, however, a common
court
  of appeal for the group as well as for Barbados, composed of the
chief
  justices of the respective islands, and there is also a common audit
system
 , while the islands unite in maintaining certain institutions of general utility. The Windward Islands, which, as a geographical division, properly include Barbados, derive their name from the fact that they are the most exposed of the Lesser Antilles to the N.E.
Trade
 , the prevailing wind throughout the West Indies.


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