The Leeward Passage is a

channel Channel, channels, channeling, etc., may refer to: Geography * Channel (geography), in physical geography, a landform consisting of the outline (banks) of the path of a narrow body of water. Australia * Channel Country, region of outback Austral ...

between

Hans Lollik Island The Hans Lollik Islands are two privately-owned islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Great Hans Lollik Island ("GHL") is found approximately 8,000 feet (2½ km) beyond the central northshore of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, separated from S ...

and northern St. Thomas Island in the

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in the

West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greate ...

.''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition'', p. 639. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1997. . It is one of the smallest channels in the US.

References

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