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List of Caribbean islands
The Caribbean islands are the more than 7,000 islands, islets, reefs, and cays of the West Indies, grouped into the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, and Lucayan Archipelago.
List of Curaçaoans
Curaçaoans are people born on Curaçao, with family roots there, or closely tied to its culture; also called Lijst van bekende Curaçaoënaars. Notable figures include Louis Brion, Izaline Calister, Churandy Martina, and the 2026 World Cup squad, with a Dutch diaspora of nearly 100,000.
Little Saint James, U.S. Virgin Islands
Little Saint James is a roughly 70-acre private island off St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, owned by Jeffrey Epstein from 1998, alleged site of trafficking, sold in 2023 to Stephen Deckoff.
Mustique
Mustique: private island in the Grenadines, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, bought by Colin Tennant in 1958 and run by the homeowner-owned Mustique Company; about 109 villas, one hotel, Basil's Bar, and a 1,000-yard no-take conservation area.
Navassa Island
Navassa Island: uninhabited ~5 km² U.S. Caribbean island west of Haiti, claimed 1857 under the Guano Islands Act, guano/phosphorite mined to 1898, a National Wildlife Refuge since 1999, and disputed by Haiti.
Necker Island (British Virgin Islands)
Necker Island: 74-acre private island in the North Sound, British Virgin Islands, owned by Richard Branson since 1979 ($180,000 purchase) and run by Virgin Limited Edition as a buyout-only luxury resort, about $105,000 a night.
Nevis
Nevis is the smaller, volcanic sister island of Saint Kitts in the Leeward Islands, capital Charlestown, about 13,000 people on 36 square miles, governed by the Nevis Island Administration under Premier Mark Brantley.
Norman's Cay
Norman's Cay is a small Exuma island in The Bahamas, 42 miles southeast of Nassau, that served as Carlos Lehder's Medellín Cartel cocaine transit base from 1978 to about 1982 before a 1982 Bahamian crackdown; it is now a private resort island with a famous plane-wreck dive site.
Paradise Island
Paradise Island, Bahamas: resort island off New Providence, connected by bridges to Nassau, home of the Atlantis resort (opened 1994 by Sol Kerzner), Cabbage Beach, and the Royal Beach Club.
Pig Beach
Pig Beach is Big Major Cay, an uninhabited cay in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas, home to about 20 feral swimming pigs descended from livestock relocated from Staniel Cay in the early 1990s, reachable only by boat.
Roatán
Roatán is the largest of Honduras's Bay Islands, about 65 km offshore between Útila and Guanaja, on the Mesoamerican Reef. Known for diving, cruise tourism (1.27 million cruise passengers in 2018), English-Spanish bilingual culture, and recent coral loss from the 2023–2025 bleaching event.
Saddleback Cay
Saddleback Cay, also Saddle Back Cay or Saddleback Cays, is the name of several small Bahamian islands and rocks: an island off North Andros near Staniard Creek, an islet in the Berry Islands, and a 47-acre private horseshoe-shaped island in the northern Exuma Cays.
Saint Croix
Saint Croix, largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands (84 sq mi, 41,004 people in 2020), a former Danish sugar colony bought by the U.S. in 1917 for $25 million, with towns Christiansted and Frederiksted.
Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint John (St. John), smallest of the three main U.S. Virgin Islands, about 4,000 residents, no airport, reached by ferry from St. Thomas. Over half the island is Virgin Islands National Park, established 1956 from Laurance Rockefeller's donated land; Danish colony from 1718, sold to the U.S. in 1917.
Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts (St Christopher), volcanic island in the northern Lesser Antilles, larger island of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; 168 km², Mount Liamuiga 1,156 m, capital Basseterre, first English Caribbean colony (1623).
Saint Lucia Island
Saint Lucia Island: volcanic Lesser Antilles island between Martinique and St Vincent, 616 km2, capital Castries. Known for the Pitons domes, the Qualibou caldera of the Soufriere Volcanic Centre, last eruption 1766, independence 1979.
Saint Martin (island)
Saint Martin (Sint Maarten) is a Caribbean island divided since the 1648 Treaty of Concordia between French Saint-Martin in the north and Dutch Sint Maarten in the south, the smallest inhabited island shared by two states, with a 10 km border settled by a 2023 agreement.
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint Thomas is a 32-square-mile Caribbean island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, capital Charlotte Amalie, bought from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million in gold; mountainous, water-scarce, tourism-driven.
San Andrés (island)
San Andrés, Colombian coral island in the western Caribbean, largest island of the San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina department; free port since 1953, Raizal Creole-speaking people, Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, over 1.1 million tourists in 2025.
San Salvador Island
San Salvador Island (Guanahani), Bahamas: traditionally Columbus's 1492 first landfall, formerly Watling Island until 1926; noted for blue holes, inland lakes, national parks, and the Gerace Research Centre.
Serranilla Bank
Serranilla Bank (Banco Serranilla), a submerged Caribbean carbonate platform at 16°N 80°W on the Nicaraguan Rise, about 1,200 km² with a few low cays; administered by Colombia, also claimed by the United States, with ICJ litigation and a 1986 Honduras treaty dividing it.
Sint Eustatius
Sint Eustatius, known locally as Statia, is a small Dutch Caribbean island in the Leeward Islands that became a special municipality of the Netherlands in 2010.
Tobago
Tobago, the smaller island of Trinidad and Tobago (also historically Bellaforma), lies 20 miles northeast of Trinidad, is dominated by the Main Ridge forest reserve, changed colonial hands repeatedly, and depends on tourism.
Tortola
Tortola is the largest island of the British Virgin Islands, hosting the capital Road Town; about 84% of the population lives there. Volcanic, with Mount Sage over 500 m, colonized by the Dutch from the 1610s and by Britain from 1672.
Tortuga
Tortuga (Île de la Tortue) is a Haitian island off northwest Hispaniola, the chief 17th-century French buccaneer stronghold from 1630 to 1700, with Fort de la Roche and Fort Blondel, later absorbed into Saint-Domingue.
Trinidad
Trinidad, the larger island of Trinidad and Tobago, is a continental Caribbean island 11 km off Venezuela, South American biota, transform-boundary geology, oil-based economy, and the region's highest biodiversity.
Vieques, Puerto Rico
Vieques (Isla Nena) is an island municipality of Puerto Rico east of Humacao, population 8,249 (2020). Former U.S. Navy bombing range until 2003, now a Superfund cleanup site and home of Mosquito Bay, the world's brightest bioluminescent bay.
Virgin Gorda
Virgin Gorda, the "Fat Virgin" named by Columbus, is an island in the British Virgin Islands known for The Baths granite boulder national park, Savannah Bay, North Sound resorts, and Necker Island offshore.
Windward Islands
The Windward Islands are the southern Lesser Antilles group: Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada, with Barbados often included. Named for trade-wind exposure, they form a volcanic island arc where the Atlantic plate subducts beneath the Caribbean plate.