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Geography of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Index Geography of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island state in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, an island arc of the Caribbean Sea in North America. [1]

45 relations: Baliceaux, Bequia, Bettowia, Biodiversity, Canouan, Caribbean Sea, Clifton, Union Island, Desertification, Endangered species, Environmental impact of shipping, Environmental Modification Convention, Grenada, Grenadines, Hazardous waste, Index of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines-related articles, Island arc, Island country, Kingstown, Kyoto Protocol, La Soufrière (volcano), Law of the sea, Lesser Antilles, List of cities, towns and villages in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Mayreau, Montreal Protocol, Mustique, North America, Outline of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Palm Island, Grenadines, Parishes of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Petit Nevis, Petit Saint Vincent, Petite Canouan, Petite Mustique, Port Elizabeth, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Quatre, Saint Vincent (Antilles), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago Cays, Union Island, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Whaling, Windward and leeward, Windward Islands, Young Island.

Baliceaux

Baliceaux is a privately owned island by a Vincentian family and is one of the Grenadines islands which lie between the Caribbean islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada.

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Bequia

Bequia is the second largest island in the Grenadines at (after Carriacou, a dependency of Grenada).

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Bettowia

Bettowia is one of the Grenadines islands which lie between the Caribbean islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Canouan

Canouan (pronounced "can - ah - wan") is an island in the Grenadines Islands belonging to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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Clifton, Union Island

Clifton is a town located on Union Island, which is part of the Grenadines island chain of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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Desertification

Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Environmental impact of shipping

The environmental impact of shipping includes greenhouse gas emissions, acoustic, and oil pollution.

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Environmental Modification Convention

The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD), formally the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques is an international treaty prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects.

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Grenada

Grenada is a sovereign state in the southeastern Caribbean Sea consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.

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Grenadines

The Grenadines are a chain of small island that lie on a line between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles.

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Hazardous waste

Hazardous waste is waste that has substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment.

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Index of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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Island arc

An island arc is a type of archipelago, often composed of a chain of volcanoes, with arc-shaped alignment, situated parallel and close to a boundary between two converging tectonic plates.

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Island country

An island country is a country whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands.

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Kingstown

Kingstown is the capital, chief port, and main commercial centre of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that (part one) global warming is occurring and (part two) it is extremely likely that human-made CO2 emissions have predominantly caused it.

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La Soufrière (volcano)

La Soufrière (Vincentian Creole: Soufray) ("The Sulfurer") or Soufrière Saint Vincent is an active volcano on the island of Saint Vincent in the Windward Islands of the Caribbean.

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Law of the sea

Law of the Sea is a body of international law that concerns the principles and rules by which public entities, especially states, interact in maritime matters, including navigational rights, sea mineral rights, and coastal waters jurisdiction.

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Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.

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List of cities, towns and villages in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

This is a list of cities, towns and villages in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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Mayreau

Mayreau is the smallest inhabited island of the Grenadines, with an area of about 1.5 sq.

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Montreal Protocol

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.

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Mustique

Mustique is a small private island that is one of the Grenadines, a chain of islands in the West Indies, and like most of these it is part of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Outline of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a sovereign island nation located in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea.

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Palm Island, Grenadines

Palm Island in the Grenadines is a small island one mile from Union Island, only accessible by boat.

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Parishes of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is divided into six parishes.

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Petit Nevis

Petit Nevis is a tiny, privately owned island in the Grenadines, off the coast of Bequia.

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Petit Saint Vincent

Petit St Vincent, known locally as PSV, is an island south of St. Vincent in the Grenadine islands.

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Petite Canouan

Petite Canouan is one of the Grenadines islands which lie between the Caribbean islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada.

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Petite Mustique

Petite Mustique is one of the Grenadines islands which lie between the Caribbean islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada.

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Port Elizabeth, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Port Elizabeth is a town located on the island of Bequia, which is part of the Grenadines island chain.

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Quatre

Quatre is one of the Grenadines islands which lie between the Caribbean islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada.

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Saint Vincent (Antilles)

Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean.

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a sovereign state in the Lesser Antilles island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lies in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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Tobago Cays

The Tobago Cays are an archipelago located in the Southern Grenadines comprising five small islands and extensive coral reefs.

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Union Island

Union Island is part of the nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty adopted on 9 May 1992 and opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.

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Whaling

Whaling is the hunting of whales for scientific research and their usable products like meat, oil and blubber.

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Windward and leeward

Windward is the direction upwind from the point of reference, alternatively the direction from which the wind is coming.

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Windward Islands

The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies.

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Young Island

Young Island is the northernmost and westernmost of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines

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