This area spans Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Navassa Island, & the Cayman Islands The Caribbean islands are divided into three main groups: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles ...

The map will also be incorporated into the Allen Coral Atlas, a project that eventually plans to map the world’s coral reefs automatically—so scientists and governments can track changes in ...

Antigua – part of the nation of Antigua and Barbuda – is the largest of the British Leeward Islands in the eastern part of the Caribbean Sea. The island is about 250 miles southeast of Puerto ...

In the Dominican Republic the flights also served to map reefs within a newly designated marine protected area of nearly 8,000 square kilometers (3,088 square miles) called Arrecifes del Sureste.