Islands, Islets & Archipelagoes

An island is a piece of land completely surrounded by water. There are many islands around the world. Trinidad and Tobago is a country made up of two islands.  

Islands of Trinidad and Tobago
Photo credit: Institute of Marine Affairs

 

 

 

Greenland
Photo Credit: Encyclopedia Britannica

 

An islet is a very small island. It cannot hold too many people and does not have the ability to plant much crops. There are also smaller islands called islets around Trinidad and Tobago such as: 

Gaspar Grande Island 

Goat Island in Tobago

Chacachacare Island that has a prison on it

Chacachacare Islet

Photo credit:

Leper colony, Chacachacare, Trinidad. 1967.jpg" by John Hill is marked with CC BY-SA 4.0.

 

 

A group of islands is called an archipelago (aa·kuh·peh·luh·gow).The Caribbean islands form an archipelago. Click here to explore a map of the archipelago: Map 

Islands in the Caribbean Archipelago are: 

Trinidad and Tobago

Grenada

Barbados

St, Vincent and the Grenandines

St. Lucia

Martinique

Dominica

Guadeloupe

Antigua & Barbuda

St.Kitts & Nevis 

and so on...