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Sint Eustatius (/ j uː ˈ s t eɪ ʃ ə s / yoo-STAY-shəs, Dutch: [sɪnt øːˈstaː(t)sijʏs] ⓘ), [7] known locally as Statia (/ ˈ s t eɪ ʃ ə / STAY-shə), [8] is an island in the Caribbean. It is a special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. [9] The island is in the northern Leeward Islands, southeast of the ...
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.
In 1780, the island had an estimated population of 20,000 people including slaves. In 1781, during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, the island was captured and plundered by George Rodney. [5] During the capture, all archives were destroyed. [7] In 1786, it was home to 7,600 people (3,000 white, 600 coloureds and 4,000 slaves).
The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
The SSS islands (Dutch: SSS-eilanden), locally also known as the Windward Islands (Bovenwindse Eilanden or Bovenwinden), is a collective term for the three territories of the Dutch Caribbean (formerly the Netherlands Antilles) that are located within the Leeward Islands group of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.
Today the term South Seas, or South Sea, most commonly refers to the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term South Sea may also be used synonymously for Oceania , or even more narrowly for Polynesia or the Polynesian Triangle , an area bounded by the Hawaiian Islands , New Zealand and Easter Island .
Saint Martin: Part of a larger island (Saint Martin) Continental shelf France: 54.4 21.0 30,959 569 1,470 Caribbean Sea, Lesser Antilles Saint Pierre and Miquelon: Two main islands Continental shelf France: 242 93 5,831 24.1 62 North America Sint Maarten: Part of a larger island (Saint Martin) Continental shelf Netherlands: 34 13 39,088 1,150 3,000
The Tuha'a Pae or Austral Islands (French: Îles Australes or Archipel des Australes) are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific. Geographically, the Austral Islands consist of two separate archipelagos.