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Leeward Islands, Boggy Peak, Nelson's Dockyard and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Antigua and Barbuda and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Subgroup of islands in the West Indies
Caribbean islands forming part of the Lesser Antilles, lying where the Caribbean Sea's northeastern waters meet the western North Atlantic. The chain starts with the Virgin Islands, east of Puerto Rico, and runs southeast as far as Guadeloupe and its dependencies.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Juanpdp assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5
Highest point of Antigua
A mountain in the southwest of Antigua, one of the islands of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Rising 1,319 feet (402 m), it is the top of the Shekerley Mountains and of the whole island.
Photo: dearinaima, CC BY 3.0
World Heritage
Cultural heritage site and marina on Antigua in Antigua and Barbuda
A heritage site and marina at English Harbour, in Saint Paul, on Antigua. No other dockyard from the Georgian era has kept working without a break.
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0
Island and dependency in Antigua and Barbuda
An island in the eastern Caribbean that, as an autonomous dependency, makes up with Antigua the twin-island state of Antigua and Barbuda. It lies roughly 30 miles (48 km) north of Antigua.
Photo: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center., Public domain
Anglican cathedral in St. John's
An Anglican cathedral set on top of a hill in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, also known as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It serves as the seat of the North East Caribbean and Aruba diocese, part of the Anglican province called the Church in the Province of the West Indies.
Photo: D'Arcy Norman, CC BY 2.0
Latin Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Caribbean
A Catholic diocese of the Latin Church spanning five Caribbean jurisdictions where English is spoken. It answers to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Castries as a suffragan and belongs to the Antilles Episcopal Conference, yet still relies on the missionary Dicastery for Evangelization.
Photo: Thank You (23 Millions+) views, CC BY 2.0
Natural rock arch in Antigua and Barbuda
A natural arch of rock on Antigua's Atlantic shore, protected as Devil's Bridge National Park, near Indian Town Point east of Willikies, at 17°6′1.7″N 61°40′42.2″W.
Photo: Tomhennigan, Public domain
Second-highest point on Antigua island, in Antigua and Barbuda
A mountain in Antigua and Barbuda, the second-highest point on the island of Antigua.
Photo: Oskarp, CC BY-SA 3.0
An island country in the Caribbean made up of Antigua, Barbuda and dozens of smaller islands. Covering 440 km² in all, it is among the Caribbean's smallest countries. It is mostly flat; the high ground is the Shekerley Mountains on Antigua and the Highlands on Barbuda.
Officially Antigua and Barbuda.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Leeward Islands, Boggy Peak, Nelson's Dockyard and Barbuda and others. Nelson's Dockyard is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Antigua and Barbuda that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Nelson's Dockyard. That is not the full count for Antigua and Barbuda, only the listed sites that made this guide.
English. The currency is XCD.
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