When Christopher Columbus went on his journey to look for a better route to India, we of course knew by now that he didn't find India but the Carribean. So in honor of that the Carribean became the "western" India, thus short is west indies.
The west indies are called that because they were discovered when explorers were looking for another way to India.
Caribbean islands
The west indies where named by christopher columbus however we today call it the carribean a series of islands in carribean sea
The west indies are called that because they were discovered when explorers were looking for another way to India.
The West Indies.
the west indiesAnswerThe West indies is the name given to the islands, not the sea. The Sea of the Antilles was a former name for the Caribbean Sea.
West Indies won
The largest nation in the West Indies is Cuba.
Dominican Republic, Haiti and Grand Bahamas.
No the West Indies are the group of islands in the Caribbean.
West Indies
West Indies
I only know St. Kitts - the mother colony of the west indies