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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.
ABC islands (Leeward Antilles) Bonaire National Marine Park; Christoffelberg; List of World Heritage Sites in the Netherlands; Tafelberg (Curaçao) Washington Slagbaai National Park; Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Feb 2011; Module:Location map/data/Netherlands ABC islands; Module:Location map/data/Netherlands ABC islands (Lesser ...
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
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.
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Detailed map showing Sint-Maarten. The Netherlands Antilles was a constituent country in the Caribbean Sea. It consisted of two island groups, the ABC islands Curaçao, Bonaire and (until 1986) Aruba just north of Venezuela, and the SSS islands east of the Virgin Islands. [1]
The largest islands include Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. Some of the smaller islands are referred to as a rock or reef. Islands are listed in alphabetical order by sovereign state. Islands with coordinates can be seen on the map linked to the right.
Location within the Lesser Antilles La Tortuga Island, Federal Dependencies of Venezuela Klein Bonaire, Netherlands. The Leeward Antilles (Dutch: Benedenwindse Eilanden; Spanish: islas de Sotavento) are a chain of islands in the Caribbean, specifically part of the southerly islands of the Lesser Antilles (and, in turn, the Antilles and the West Indies) along the southeastern fringe of the ...