Museum, University of Nebraska State
Date of this Version
8-31-1998
Citation
Occasional Paper of the Museum of Texas Tech University (August 31, 1998) number 117.
Abstract
The island of Grenada is the southernmost of the Lesser Antilles, lying 130 km north of Trinidad and 135 km north of the Venezuelan mainland. It measures 34 km north to south and 19 km east to west and has an area of 312 square km. Grenada and the Grenadines northward to Bequia stand on the large submarine Grenada Bank. At 183 m depth, the bank is 179 km long. The Grenadines cover the bank to its northern end, but the bank extends for 39 km south of Grenada with no islands. During the last Ice Age, Grenada and the Grenadines must have been one large island that extended from within 2 km of St. Vincent in the north to within 80 km of South America in the south.
Comments
Copyright 1998, Museum of Texas Tech University. Used by permission.