thumb|Looking out at Five Islands, Point Gourde, Trinidad

This is a list of islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic republic in the southern Caribbean.

Major islands

  • Trinidad
  • Tobago

Bocas Islands

thumb|250px|Monos (front) and Chacachacare (back). [[Venezuela|Venezuelan mainland (Paria Peninsula) seen in the horizon and Patos Island seen to the left.]]

The Bocas Islands lie between Trinidad and Venezuela, in the Bocas del Dragón (Dragons' Mouth). Locally they are referred to as "Down de Islands" or "DDI".

  • Chacachacare
  • Monos
  • Huevos
  • Gaspar Grande (Gasparee)
  • Gasparillo Island (Little Gasparee or Centipede Island)

Five Islands

thumb|right|250px|The Five Islands in Trinidad and Tobago as seen approaching from the North

thumb|right|250px|The Five Islands (left), Carrera Island (middle), and the Point Gourde Peninsula at sunset. The view is looking southwest from [[Trinidad.]]

The Five Islands are actually a group of six small islands lying west of Port of Spain in the Gulf of Paria. Also known as Las Cotorras.

  • Caledonia Island
  • Craig Island (Craig and Caledonia are joined by a man-made causeway)
  • Lenagan Island
  • Nelson Island
  • Pelican Island
  • Rock Island

San Diego Islands

thumb|Carrera (left), Cronstadt Island (right)

Sometimes referred to simply as the Diego Islands, these two islets lie between the Bocas Islands and the Five Islands.

  • Cronstadt (Kronstadt)
  • Carrera (a prison island)

Others in the Gulf of Paria

  • Faralon Rock, off San Fernando
  • Soldado Rock

North Coast of Trinidad

thumb|250px|Picture of Saut d'Eau off the north coast of Trinidad.

  • Saut d'Eau

Off Tobago

  • Little Tobago (Bird of Paradise Island)
  • St. Giles Island
  • Goat Island
  • Sisters' Rock

List of minor islands with co-ordinates

Taken from the Archipelagic Baselines of Trinidad and Tobago Order, Notice No. 206 of 31 October 1988, as corrected by Legal Notice No. 77 on 5 April 1989.

  1. East Rock
  2. Casa Cruz Rock
  3. Alcatras Rock
  4. Icacos Point
  5. Black Rock
  6. Cabresse Point
  7. Cabresse Island
  8. Sisters Island
  9. Marble Island
  10. St. Giles Island
  11. Little Tobago

References

See also

  • List of islands in the Caribbean
  • Geography of Trinidad and Tobago