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Saba (/ ˈ s eɪ b ə / ⓘ SAY-bə, [6] Dutch: ⓘ) [7] is a Caribbean island and the smallest special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. [8] [9] It consists largely of the dormant volcano [10] Mount Scenery, which at 870 metres (2,854.3 ft) is the highest point of the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (IATA: SAB, ICAO: TNCS) is an airport on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba, Netherlands. Its runway is widely acknowledged as the shortest commercial runway in the world, with a length of 400 m (1,312 ft).
These are the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, [10] [nb 1] as they are also known in legislation, or the BES islands for short. The islands are officially classified as public bodies [ 11 ] in the Netherlands and as overseas territories of the European Union ; as such, European Union law does not automatically apply to them.
This is a list of airports in the former Netherlands Antilles upon its dissolution in 2010, sorted by location.. The Netherlands Antilles were part of the Lesser Antilles and consisted of two groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea: Bonaire and Curaçao (off the Venezuelan coast), and Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten (located southeast of the Virgin Islands).
Fort Bay is the official and only port on the island of Saba, in the Caribbean Netherlands. It is located on the south side of the island, about 1 mile (1.6 km) by road from The Bottom . The port is very important for the island as most of its supplies arrive here by boat.
The Bottom (formerly Botte) is the capital and largest town of the island of Saba, [2] the Caribbean Netherlands. It is the first stop on the way from Saba's Port in Fort Bay towards the rest of the island. In 2001, it had 462 inhabitants of the total 1,349 islanders. [1] It is the administrative center of Saba. [3]
Saba Island is a rocky Caribbean island in the United States Virgin Islands, situated three miles south of Cyril E. King Airport on St. Thomas and 2.6 miles west of Water Island. [1] It is a steep, 200 feet high island with a sandy beach on the northern side. Turtledove Cay is connected by a shallow sandbar. Saba Island has salt ponds on both ...
In 1963, Saba's airport officially began service, built on the flat stretch of land just above Cove Bay. [16] In the 1990s, there was a leather factory between Cove Bay and the airport; [7] [17] in 2012, Saba Comprehensive School's Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) moved in to the former leather factory building. [17]