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  • part of the Federation of the Leeward Islands Colony from 1871 to 1939, then became a unit of the Windward Islands group from 1940 to 1960. Dominica joined...
    30 KB (4,551 words) - 16:24, 11 April 2024
  • banana crop accounts for seventy per cent of total exports from the Windward Islands, though the threat of dollar bananas from South America flooding UK...
    15 KB (2,207 words) - 12:39, 3 March 2023
  • Barlavento (windward) islands (Santo Antão, São Vicente, Santa Luzia, São Nicolau, Sal, and Boa Vista) and the Sotavento (leeward) islands (Maio, Santiago...
    31 KB (4,796 words) - 09:40, 20 October 2023
  • "Howland's Island, although naturally uninhabitable, gave various indications of early visitors, probably natives drifting from windward islands, whose traces...
    163 KB (18,219 words) - 04:00, 24 December 2021
  • precipitates/causes rain (due to the expansion and cooling of the warm air) is the windward side. The leeward side is where it is dry (deserts) due to the atmosphere...
    8 KB (1,193 words) - 01:00, 15 April 2023
  • winter, when low-hanging clouds cause freezing fog. This fog freezes to the windward (wind-facing) side of tree branches, buildings, or any other solid objects...
    139 KB (13,322 words) - 13:15, 5 June 2024
  • winter, when low-hanging clouds cause freezing fog. This fog freezes to the windward (wind-facing) side of tree branches, buildings, or any other solid objects...
    173 KB (20,506 words) - 17:38, 13 October 2022