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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.
The ABC islands or ABC Islands is a colloquial name for one of the following two archipelagos: ABC Islands (Alaska) , comprising Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island ABC islands (Leeward Antilles) , comprising the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
Geologists believe that Bonaire and the other ABC islands were formed about 90 million years ago. [53] As the Caribbean plate collided with the South American plate, it forced a large mass of rock to the ocean surface and created the Leeward Antilles Ridge. [54] The islands of Bonaire, Aruba, and Curaçao were formed along this ridge.
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The smallest of the ABC islands, Aruba is said to have the most sunny days of any island in the entire Caribbean. It has a different landscape to most of them, with inland areas mainly consisting ...
Curaçao includes the main island of Curaçao and the much smaller, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao"). [12] Curaçao has a population of 158,665 (January 2019 est.), [2] with an area of 444 km 2 (171 sq mi); its capital is Willemstad. [12] Together with Aruba and Bonaire, Curaçao forms the ABC islands.
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.
The island nation of Dominica with a total area of 750 km 2 (290 sq mi) includes two small, off-shore islands and one disputed island: [11] [12] Dominica (745.96 km²), 15°26′14″N 61°20′32″W / 15.43713°N 61.34216°W / 15.43713; -61.34216 (