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St. Barth has its own airline, St. Barth Commuter, which in addition to the scheduled and charter flight services, provides medical transport services. St. Barth Executive is a local aircraft charter operator. Many inter-island ferry services operate regularly between St. Martin and St. Barts.
Also known as Saint Barth in French, or St. Barts in English, the collectivity is one of the four French territories in the Leeward Islands that comprise the French West Indies, and it is the only one to have historically been a Swedish colony.
Gustavia (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ s t æ v i ə /, French:, Swedish: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtaviːa]) is the main town and capital of the island of Saint Barthélemy. Originally called Le Carénage, it was renamed in honor of King Gustav III of Sweden .
The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.
Gustaf III Airport [3] (IATA: SBH [3], ICAO: TFFJ [1]), also known as Saint Barthélemy Airport, Rémy de Haenen Airport, sometimes as St. Jean Airport (French: Aérodrome de St Jean [1]), is a public use airport located in the village of St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy.
On the right, the saint wears his own skin tied around his neck while he kneels in prayer before a rock, his severed head lying on the ground. A further depiction is that of the Flaying of St. Bartholomew in the Luttrell Psalter c. 1325 –1340. There, Bartholomew is depicted lying on a surgical table, surrounded by tormentors while he is ...
Between a third to half of Saint Barthélemy's population were registered slaves in 1819 (estimations are between 1,283 and 2,033 slaves). [4] [7] On 31 October 1786, the Swedish West India Company was established on the island with responsibility for maintaining the port and the employment of Swedish officials. By the end of the century ...
Native to Asia. The first mention of this species on Saint Barthélemy was made by Breuil and Magras in 2001. Typhlops annae [20] Typhlops de St-Barth: Endemic to Saint Barthélemy. The first mention of this species on Saint Barthélemy was made by l'Herminier in 1815 and described by Breuil in 1996.