Figure 3. The major paleo- islands of the northeastern Caribbean at times of maximum low sea levels during the last glacial, about 26,000 to 20,000 years ago. Some of the present islands of the northern Lesser Antilles thus had considerably larger areas and were joined with other islands on their marine bank as continuous land, and these larger islands were closer to each other. The low glacial sea level bathymetry line is drawn at a generous - 200 m below the present sea level. The evidence for sea level depression in the last glacial is for a decrease of as much as -150 m (Clark et al. 2009). The larger island areas are the exposed submarine banks which represent the true biogeographic islands which were isolated from each other. There were additional exposed banks which do not have emergent land at present sealevels. ; Published as part of Peck, Stewart B., 2011, The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the northern Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles (Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Nevis, Saba, St. Barthélemy, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, and St. Martin-St. Maarten, pp. 1-54 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (159) on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5160305