The islands of the Antilles are, in general, mountainous. In the Greater Antilles there are hundreds of caves excavated in the limestone. The rivers, however, are few and short. Volcanoes are abundant in the small Antilles. Near the coast there are oceanic trenches where the sea reaches great depth. But on many islands there are extensions of the island platforms, which turns these coastal segments into beaches and wetlands. The climate is tropical...