11 COUNTRY/TERRITORY LATITUDE IN DEGREES NORTH Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize British Virgin Islands Dominica Grenada Guyana Jamaica Montserrat St. Kitts & Nevis Saint Lucia St. Vincent & the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad & Tobago Turks & Caicos Islands 18 17 25 13 17 18 15 12 04 18 16 17 13 12 3. 10 21 LONGITUDE IN DEGREES WEST 63 61 77 59 88 64 61 61 58 77 62 62 60 61 56 61 71 Continued from previous page Suriname is the most southerly, Barbados is the most easterly and Belize is the most westerly. We have prepared the table above for your information and convenience. It shows the latitude and longitude of all CARICAD member states. Remember that the precise location within a multiisland state for a particular island in that state could be slightly different from the figures shown. Further, in geographically large member states such as Guyana, Suriname and Belize the values will be different for different locations within the country. The numbers after the decimal point can vary depending on where exactly the measurement was calculated for the country or territory. We have opted in this edition not to use the decimal point values for the locations. Note that The Bahamas is the most northerly CARICAD member state, In earlier years there was a tradition of identifying a ‘Hurricane Belt’ in the Atlantic Basin. It encompassed the northern part of the Caribbean Sea as well as the Gulf of Mexico. It also included Florida and the Florida Keys. There is now a disinclination to consider the Hurricane belt as having statistical certitude. It used to be said that Grenada was outside the Hurricane Belt but that kind of thinking started to change when Grenada was devastated by a major hurricane — Ivan — in 2004. It is worth remembering that in 1955 Hurricane Janet, a Category 5 hurricane, caused widespread damage and several deaths in Barbados and the Grenadines. The Grenadines were considered to be outside the zone of greatest threat.
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