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List of cities of each of the islands in the former Netherlands Antilles. Aruba left the Netherlands Antilles in 1986. Curaçao and Sint Maarten left in 2010, and the remaining islands are now part of the Caribbean Netherlands .
The touristically named Renaissance Island (formerly Sonesta Island) [36] is a 40-acre (16 ha) cay (or barrier reef) island, officially known as the Bucuti Rif [37] [38] and it is off the coast near Oranjestad. It is privately owned and has the only private beaches on Aruba. [39] There are two beaches: Iguana Beach and Flamingo Beach.
The ABC islands is the physical group of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.These islands have a shared political history and a status of Dutch underlying ownership, since the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 ceded them back to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Curaçao and Dependencies from 1815.
Andrew Doria receives a salute from the Dutch fort at Sint Eustatius, 16 November 1776. The islands of the Dutch Caribbean were, formerly, part of Curaçao and Dependencies (1815–1828), or Sint Eustatius and Dependencies (1815–1828), which were merged with the colony of Suriname (not actually considered part of the "Dutch Caribbean", although it is located on the Caribbean coast of ...
Eagle Beach (or Arend Beach) is a beach and neighbourhood of Oranjestad, Aruba. The neighbourhood is famous for its many low-rise resorts and wide public beach. [2] It is the widest beach of Aruba, [3] and has soft white sand. It has been rated one of the best beaches in the world. [4] [3]
The San Nicolas Bay Reef Islands lie just off the south-eastern end of the island of Aruba, a constituent island nation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Dutch Caribbean, adjacent to the island's second largest city San Nicolaas, from which it separated by a shallow lagoon. They form a 248 ha site encompassing five small boulder coral ...
The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ʔɑnˈtɪlə(n)] ⓘ; Papiamento: Antia Hulandes), [2] also known as the Dutch Antilles, [3] was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, and Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire in the Leeward Antilles.
Oranjestad (Dutch pronunciation: [oːˈrɑɲəstɑt]; English: Orange [4] Town) is a small town of 1,038 inhabitants; [1] it is the capital and largest town of the island of Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean Netherlands. It is not to be confused with the far larger Oranjestad in Aruba.