Question

What was the name given to Caribbean island? Answer for this

Answer 1

Explanation:

Following the independence of most of the territories from the United Kingdom, the term Commonwealth Caribbean is now used. ... Between 1958 and 1962, all of the island territories except the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas were organised into the West Indies Federation

Answer 2

The region takes its name from that of the Caribs, an ethnic group present in the Lesser Antilles and parts of adjacent South America at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The term was popularized by British cartographer Thomas Jefferys who used it in his The West-India Atlas (1773).