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Additions: I've added a lot more islands and island groups. The list is still not complete.
Reorganization: The list is now organized by national/territorial administrative group. Where islands are dependencies, their parent country is listed parenthetically.
Inhabited: I propose that the list primarily focus on inhabited islands, as there are thousands of uninhabited islands. Go ahead and add uninhabited islands, but they should probably be marked as such. A few of the islands listed now are barely inhabited (Marina Cay has electricity but only 3 customers).
Gruepig 17:35, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
What is actually wrong with listing every island? (the excuse of the article becoming "too long" aside.........)
No don't merge with the Caribbean. The Caribbean is a body of water and the Bahamas and the Turks are not in the Caribbean. It's not about politics, demographics or economics, it's just plain geography. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.131.0.32 ( talk) 01:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
There's a separate list of islands on the Caribbean page. I think I've added all of the islands here to it (though if someone wants to check, that would be great). Rather than maintain two separate lists, does it make sense to redirect this to Caribbean? -- Gruepig 19:05, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
No redirect.
Why have the San Blas Islands (Panama) been excluded from the list of Caribbean Islands? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrmccord ( talk • contribs) 14:37, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
List of islands "of" x means list of islands belonging to x. That makes sense when you're talking about islands belonging to some entity. But this list isn't defined in terms of "belonging to" some entity, it's a list of islands that happen to be located in the Caribbean. If it was a list of islands of the Caribbean, one could arguably include offshore islands in the Guianas, since those countries are "of" the Caribbean (CARICOM members, etc.) but not "in" the Caribbean. At the same time, one could make a case against the inclusion of offshore islands of mainland entities. So as this list currently exists, it is a list of islands in the Caribbean, not a list of islands of the Caribbean. I think this move creates ambiguity, and thus, moving it simply to match other lists of islands (no examples given...) is a very bad idea. Guettarda ( talk) 16:33, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Please undo the un-discussed move and do this properly. "Islands in the Caribbean" is idiomatic usage in English, "islands in the Antilles" is not. Note as well that "Antilles" is even more narrow in its usage than "Caribbean". The only realistic options in English are "Caribbean" and "West Indies". Guettarda ( talk) 03:05, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
It appears some have a problem discerning the difference between a body of water (Caribbean Sea) and a group of islands (West Indies). Some of the islands in the West Indies are not in the Caribbean (Bahamas Turks). Chris was sailing West to find India and first came on the islands that later were named The Bahamas. It took somewhat longer to discern the boundaries of the Caribbean encased in the Greater and Lesser Antilles, The North Coast of South America, and Central America and Mexico. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.131.0.32 ( talk) 01:41, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
This article gives a long list of Bahamas islands. There are two reasons I think the Bahamas section should be deleted:
(1) There is already a more complete listing at List of islands of the Bahamas.
(2) More importantly, The Bahamas are not in the Caribbean. This is sort of recognized in the lede, which says This is a list of islands of the Caribbean region.... [bolding added], which may have been written to rationalize the inclusion of The Bahamas. But the article Caribbean says
And the article Caribbean Sea says
Also Geography of the Bahamas says
without mentioning the Caribbean. So I don't think it's justifiable taking up a substantial amount of space in this article to give a list that's not as complete as the list in the real article, when the list is off-topic. Duoduoduo ( talk) 22:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
The lede of this article says
so it seems reasonable that Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands would be included as sub-headings under the heading United States of America. As it is now, the section United States of America makes it look like the US has only three islands (all disputed) in the Caribbean. Duoduoduo ( talk) 23:05, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved to list of Caribbean islands. Ixfd64 ( talk) 19:29, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
List of islands in the Caribbean → List of islands of the Caribbean – Per Wikipedia's policy on using commonly recognizable names, "islands of the Caribbean" is a far more common construction than "islands in the Caribbean". A Google Books search for "islands of the Caribbean" reveals about 3,270,000 results, while "islands in the Caribbean" turns up only about 1,630,000. The word "of" does not indicate ownership, as has been argued in previous discussions; the word "of" is appropriate when referring both to unified bodies as well as to geographical locations. Consider, for example, Fauna of Africa. The "List of islands of x" title format is well-established, and there is no reason to vary from it in this case. Neelix ( talk) 03:39, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
"islans" ? 66.74.176.59 ( talk) 19:38, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
Based on the article mentioning that the Caribbean Sea is a broad based term, and the fact that the Bahamas is included within the list, It might be prudent to add the entire Florida Key islands set. I will research a bit more to conculsively determine if this should be added to the list. Gizziiusa ( talk) 08:11, 22 March 2016 (UTC)gizziiusa
Also in List of Caribbean islands by area, I don't know why Key West is included in the list, while other islands like Stock Island, Key Largo (to name a few) are not included. It questions me that for example Key Largo is larger than some islands listed (>5 sq km) there. Please help. - ✉ Hello World! 18:24, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
There a few tiny islands off the eastern coast, however I've been unable to find their names online.
See: http://www.orangesmile.com/common/img_city_maps/dominica-island-map-0.jpg
Sdrawkcab ( talk) 20:20, 29 June 2019 (UTC)sdrawkcab
I am using the following convention when building this page:
By including coordinates a map of all islands using GeoGroup can be used. The coordinates help in confirming the island and its country. If others have suggestions, please discuss on the talk page.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean Talk to G Moore 15:19, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
I originally linked to this page from the Caribbean section of the page for Lists_of_islands_of_the_Americas. There, the link reads "List of islands of the Netherlands Antilles." I'm not sure why someone decided to divide the Netherlands list in two.
Research on Wikipedia leads me to think that all of the islands currently listed under the Netherlands heading are administrative territories of the Netherlands; that they all are islands in the Antilles; that at one time the Dutch administered them collectively as the Netherlands Antilles, and that since the Dutch dissolved that administrative unit, people still reference the islands collectively as the Dutch Caribbean or Caribbean Netherlands (as the second portion of the list now shows).
My suggestions: change "Kingdom of the Netherlands" section title (and the link name on the Islands of the Americas page) to "Caribbean Netherlands" or "Dutch Caribbean." Then, rearrange the Dutch islands list here to put all six island clusters in alpha order and to eliminate the interrupting subtitle. I can make these edits, but hesitate to do so completely of my own volition. Allgotterer ( talk) 21:35, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
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Additions: I've added a lot more islands and island groups. The list is still not complete.
Reorganization: The list is now organized by national/territorial administrative group. Where islands are dependencies, their parent country is listed parenthetically.
Inhabited: I propose that the list primarily focus on inhabited islands, as there are thousands of uninhabited islands. Go ahead and add uninhabited islands, but they should probably be marked as such. A few of the islands listed now are barely inhabited (Marina Cay has electricity but only 3 customers).
Gruepig 17:35, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
What is actually wrong with listing every island? (the excuse of the article becoming "too long" aside.........)
No don't merge with the Caribbean. The Caribbean is a body of water and the Bahamas and the Turks are not in the Caribbean. It's not about politics, demographics or economics, it's just plain geography. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.131.0.32 ( talk) 01:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
There's a separate list of islands on the Caribbean page. I think I've added all of the islands here to it (though if someone wants to check, that would be great). Rather than maintain two separate lists, does it make sense to redirect this to Caribbean? -- Gruepig 19:05, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
No redirect.
Why have the San Blas Islands (Panama) been excluded from the list of Caribbean Islands? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrmccord ( talk • contribs) 14:37, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
List of islands "of" x means list of islands belonging to x. That makes sense when you're talking about islands belonging to some entity. But this list isn't defined in terms of "belonging to" some entity, it's a list of islands that happen to be located in the Caribbean. If it was a list of islands of the Caribbean, one could arguably include offshore islands in the Guianas, since those countries are "of" the Caribbean (CARICOM members, etc.) but not "in" the Caribbean. At the same time, one could make a case against the inclusion of offshore islands of mainland entities. So as this list currently exists, it is a list of islands in the Caribbean, not a list of islands of the Caribbean. I think this move creates ambiguity, and thus, moving it simply to match other lists of islands (no examples given...) is a very bad idea. Guettarda ( talk) 16:33, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Please undo the un-discussed move and do this properly. "Islands in the Caribbean" is idiomatic usage in English, "islands in the Antilles" is not. Note as well that "Antilles" is even more narrow in its usage than "Caribbean". The only realistic options in English are "Caribbean" and "West Indies". Guettarda ( talk) 03:05, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
It appears some have a problem discerning the difference between a body of water (Caribbean Sea) and a group of islands (West Indies). Some of the islands in the West Indies are not in the Caribbean (Bahamas Turks). Chris was sailing West to find India and first came on the islands that later were named The Bahamas. It took somewhat longer to discern the boundaries of the Caribbean encased in the Greater and Lesser Antilles, The North Coast of South America, and Central America and Mexico. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.131.0.32 ( talk) 01:41, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
This article gives a long list of Bahamas islands. There are two reasons I think the Bahamas section should be deleted:
(1) There is already a more complete listing at List of islands of the Bahamas.
(2) More importantly, The Bahamas are not in the Caribbean. This is sort of recognized in the lede, which says This is a list of islands of the Caribbean region.... [bolding added], which may have been written to rationalize the inclusion of The Bahamas. But the article Caribbean says
And the article Caribbean Sea says
Also Geography of the Bahamas says
without mentioning the Caribbean. So I don't think it's justifiable taking up a substantial amount of space in this article to give a list that's not as complete as the list in the real article, when the list is off-topic. Duoduoduo ( talk) 22:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
The lede of this article says
so it seems reasonable that Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands would be included as sub-headings under the heading United States of America. As it is now, the section United States of America makes it look like the US has only three islands (all disputed) in the Caribbean. Duoduoduo ( talk) 23:05, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved to list of Caribbean islands. Ixfd64 ( talk) 19:29, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
List of islands in the Caribbean → List of islands of the Caribbean – Per Wikipedia's policy on using commonly recognizable names, "islands of the Caribbean" is a far more common construction than "islands in the Caribbean". A Google Books search for "islands of the Caribbean" reveals about 3,270,000 results, while "islands in the Caribbean" turns up only about 1,630,000. The word "of" does not indicate ownership, as has been argued in previous discussions; the word "of" is appropriate when referring both to unified bodies as well as to geographical locations. Consider, for example, Fauna of Africa. The "List of islands of x" title format is well-established, and there is no reason to vary from it in this case. Neelix ( talk) 03:39, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
"islans" ? 66.74.176.59 ( talk) 19:38, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
Based on the article mentioning that the Caribbean Sea is a broad based term, and the fact that the Bahamas is included within the list, It might be prudent to add the entire Florida Key islands set. I will research a bit more to conculsively determine if this should be added to the list. Gizziiusa ( talk) 08:11, 22 March 2016 (UTC)gizziiusa
Also in List of Caribbean islands by area, I don't know why Key West is included in the list, while other islands like Stock Island, Key Largo (to name a few) are not included. It questions me that for example Key Largo is larger than some islands listed (>5 sq km) there. Please help. - ✉ Hello World! 18:24, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
There a few tiny islands off the eastern coast, however I've been unable to find their names online.
See: http://www.orangesmile.com/common/img_city_maps/dominica-island-map-0.jpg
Sdrawkcab ( talk) 20:20, 29 June 2019 (UTC)sdrawkcab
I am using the following convention when building this page:
By including coordinates a map of all islands using GeoGroup can be used. The coordinates help in confirming the island and its country. If others have suggestions, please discuss on the talk page.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean Talk to G Moore 15:19, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
I originally linked to this page from the Caribbean section of the page for Lists_of_islands_of_the_Americas. There, the link reads "List of islands of the Netherlands Antilles." I'm not sure why someone decided to divide the Netherlands list in two.
Research on Wikipedia leads me to think that all of the islands currently listed under the Netherlands heading are administrative territories of the Netherlands; that they all are islands in the Antilles; that at one time the Dutch administered them collectively as the Netherlands Antilles, and that since the Dutch dissolved that administrative unit, people still reference the islands collectively as the Dutch Caribbean or Caribbean Netherlands (as the second portion of the list now shows).
My suggestions: change "Kingdom of the Netherlands" section title (and the link name on the Islands of the Americas page) to "Caribbean Netherlands" or "Dutch Caribbean." Then, rearrange the Dutch islands list here to put all six island clusters in alpha order and to eliminate the interrupting subtitle. I can make these edits, but hesitate to do so completely of my own volition. Allgotterer ( talk) 21:35, 14 July 2022 (UTC)