Antillas - Antillas

Japanese: アンティリャス - あんてぃりゃす
Antillas - Antillas

...Most of the area is under the influence of trade winds and sea breezes all year round, making it comfortable and pleasant to live in, and blessed with beautiful natural scenery such as coral reefs and tropical plants. In Europe, it was thought that there was a land called Antilia on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean since the Middle Ages, but after Columbus discovered the New World, the Spanish assigned Haiti to Antilia (1493), and on a map of 1502, the islands were called Antilles in Spanish. In addition, the islands northwest of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles are called the Barlovento Islands, or Windward Islands in English, because they are blessed with the trade winds, and the islands off the coast of Venezuela are called the Sotavento Islands (meaning leeward), or Leeward Islands in English. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Antillas" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ほとんどの地域が一年中貿易風,海風の影響下にあり,快適で過ごしやすく,サンゴ礁,熱帯植物などの美しい自然景観に恵まれている。 ヨーロッパでは,中世から大西洋の向こうにはアンティリアAntiliaと呼ばれる土地があると想像されていたが,コロンブスの新世界発見後,スペイン人がハイチをアンティリアにあて(1493),1502年の地図では諸島をスペイン語でアンティリャスAntillasと呼んだ。また小アンティル諸島のうちグレナダから北西にある島々は貿易風の恵みをうけるのでバルロベントBarlovento諸島,英語でウィンドワード諸島と呼び,ベネズエラ沖の島々をソタベントSotavento諸島(〈風下〉の意),英語でリーワード諸島と呼んでいる。…

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