The British colonized the Cayman Islands during the 18th and 19th centuries, and Jamaica -- also a British colony at...

First inhabited by Arawak and later by Carib Indians, the Virgin Islands were settled by the Dutch in 1648 and...

Belize was the site of several Mayan city states until their decline at the end of the first millennium A.D....

Barbados was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. Enslaved Africans worked the sugar plantations established on the...

Lucayan Indians inhabited the Bahama islands when Christopher COLUMBUS first set foot in the New World in 1492. British settlement...

Discovered and claimed for Spain in 1499, Aruba was acquired by the Dutch in 1636. Three main industries have since...

The Siboney were the first people to inhabit the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 B.C., but the Arawaks...

English settlers from Saint Kitts first colonized Anguilla in 1650. Great Britain administered the island until the early 19th century,...

Around 800 B.C., the first settlers arrived on the islands of Wallis and Futuna, which are a natural midpoint between...

Early Micronesian and Polynesian settlers probably visited Wake Island, and oral legends tell of periodic voyages to the islands by...

Austronesian speakers from the Solomon Islands first settled Vanuatu around 2000 B.C. By around 1000, localized chieftain systems began to...