Island Geography
Situated just 15 miles off the coast of Venezuela, this Dutch island is completely immune to the devastating Caribbean hurricane belt due to its far southern latitude.
What is Aruba?
It is history's first and only successful slave insurrection that resulted in the permanent abolition of slavery.
What is Haiti?
when an American hear your West Indian accent, which country do they often assume the person is from?
What is Jamaica?
Bashment is another name for what genre?
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What is the Jamaican coat of arms?
Famed for its Dutch colonial architecture and iconic pastel-colored waterfront buildings, this capital of "" is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site
What is Willemstad, Curaçao?
Originally named "Santiago" by Christopher Columbus, this major island was captured from Spain by British forces under Oliver Cromwell's Western Design initiative in 1655.
What is Jamaica?
In Afro-Caribbean folklore, these malevolent, skin-shifting shape-shifters—often depicted as old women who shed their skin at night—are known as " ".
What are Jumbies? or what is a Loogaroo?
Dennery segment, a high-tempo electronic subgenre of soca music, originated on and is native to this Windward island nation.
what is St.Lucia?
This Caribbean nation’s banner features a diagonal black stripe with two white stars, separating a green triangle on the hoist from a red triangle on the fly.
What is St.Kitts and Nevis?
Founded by Bartholomew Columbus in 1496, this sprawling metropolitan area holds the title of the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas.
What is Santo Domingo?
This regional organization was established with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas in 1973.
What is CARICOM?
This Caribbean country is home to the oldest Jewish synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, dating back to the 1600s.
What is a Barbados?
This energetic, fast-tempo musical style originated in Guadeloupe and Martinique in the 1980s and was popularized globally by the band Kassav’
What is Zouk?
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What is Trinidad and Tobago?
What Island is recognized as the nature Isle?
What is Dominica?
In 1958, ten island territories formed this short-lived political entity with its capital at Port of Spain, collapsing just four years later when Jamaica voted to withdraw.
What is the West Indies Federation?
Known as the "Republic of Pirates," this modern-day Caribbean capital city was practically ruled by Thomas Barrow and Benjamin Hornigold in the early 1700s before Woodes Rogers arrived to restore British control.
What is Nassau?
This mobile Caribbean cultural phenomenon originated in 1950s Kingston and laid the direct structural blueprint for early American Hip-Hop block parties.
What is a Sound System?
Kingstown is the capital and chief port of this multi-island nation
What is Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
This language is spoken widely in "Blank and Blank" this specific French-lexified creole language is sub-classified by linguists as a variety of "".
What is Kwéyòl?
(Dominica and Saint Lucia. Antillean Creole)
This nation became the last Caribbean country to gain full independence when it ended British rule.
What is Saint Kitts and Nevis?"
Name the different languages spoken in the Caribbean?
English, French/Creole French, Dutch, Papiamento, Amerindian, Spanish/Creole Spanish, Portuguese, Patois, Chinese, and Hindi.
Born in St. Lucia, this celebrated West Indian playwright and poet brought global visibility to the region when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
Who is Derek Walcott?
though it sits entirely in the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Caribbean Sea, this archipelago nation is made up of roughly 700 different islands and cays.
What is The Bahamas?