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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.
St. Thomas Harbor, 2015. The United States Virgin Islands, often abbreviated USVI, are a group of islands and cays located in the Lesser Antilles of the Eastern Caribbean, consisting of three main islands (Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas) and fifty smaller islets and cays. [ 1 ] Like many of their Caribbean neighbors, the history of ...
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.
Curaçao, [ a ] officially the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; [ 10 ] Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), [ 11 ][ 12 ] is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela. It is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Bonaire (/ bɒˈnɛər / bon-AIR, [ 8 ]Dutch: [boːˈnɛːr (ə)] ⓘ; [ 9 ] 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 (leeward) coast of the island. Aruba, Bonaire and ...
Arrival of colonizers. The Guanajatabey, Ciboney and Taíno peoples lived in Cuba in the 15th century; these were peaceful peoples and were organized in a primitive community. On October 27, 1492, the first European contact was made when Columbus was trying to sail to the Orient. Sebastián de Ocampo made the first circumnavigation of the ...
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. Category: Place name disambiguation pages.
227/km 2 (588/sq mi) The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles. Part of the Caribbean islands or West Indies, they lie south of the Leeward Islands and east of the Leeward Antilles, approximately between latitudes 10° and 16° N and longitudes 60° and 62° W. The name was also used to refer to a ...