The term "West Indies" came about when Christopher Columbus set out on a voyage to Asia to get to India rather than going east to avoid the moors with whom the Europeans were at war with, under the...
The direction refers to the direction that one must travel FROM EUROPE to arrive. You must go west to the West Indies and east to the East Indies. Before Columbus' discovery he was trying to find a...
The University of the West Indies is ranked 1391st in the world according to:
Cybermetrics Lab (2007). Global Ranking of Top Universities for each country. CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid,...