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Kralendijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkraːlə(n)dɛik]) is the capital and main port of the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands. The language spoken in the town is Papiamentu , but Dutch and English are widely used.
Kralendijk Lighthouse (or Fort Oranje Lighthouse) is an active lighthouse in the town of Kralendijk, Bonaire, in the Caribbean Netherlands. It was built in 1932 on the grounds of Fort Oranje , a 17th century fort.
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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).
On October 21, 2009, a Britten-Norman Islander BN-2A flight operated by local commuter airline, Divi Divi Air Flight 014 lost an engine while in flight to Bonaire and had to ditch in the sea south-west of Klein Bonaire and five minutes out from Bonaire. Pilot Robert Mansell, 32, managed to successfully ditch the plane in the water but was ...
Fort Orange (Dutch: Fort Oranje) is a military fortification in Kralendijk, Bonaire. Originally built in 1639 as a nameless [4] fort by the Dutch West India Company, it is the oldest masonry structure on the island of Bonaire. [5] [6] The fort has never been used for its intended purpose. [2] [7] In 1816, it was rebuilt and named Fort Orange.
Bonaire (/ b ɒ ˈ n ɛər / bon-AIR, [7] Dutch: [boːˈnɛːr(ə)] ⓘ; [8] Papiamento: Boneiru [bʊˈne̝i̯ru]) is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Antilles, and is a special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west coast of the island.