The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies. They lie south of the Leeward Islands, between latitudes 12° and 16° N and longitudes 60° and 62° W in one definition. ==Name and geography== The Windward Islands are called such because they were more windward to sailing ships arriv...
a line of West Indian islands constituting the southern arc of the Lesser Antilles, at the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea, between latitudes 12° ... [1 related articles]island group in the Atlantic Ocean off the West African coast, comprising one of two island groups of Cape Verde (q.v.) and consisting of the ... [1 related articles]
[n] - a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies
Windward Isles noun a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles
Group of islands in the West Indies, forming part of the lesser Antilles