ABC islands
| ABC islands | |
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| Waters | Caribbean Sea |
| archipelago | Leeward Islands |
| Geographical location | 12 ° 11 ′ N , 68 ° 59 ′ W |
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| Number of islands | 3 main islands 2 minor islands |
| Total land area | 925 km² |
| Residents | 274,000 |
 Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire |
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ABC Islands ( Dutch : ABC-eilanden , also Benedenwindse Eilanden ; Papiamentu : Islanan ABC ) is the name for the archipelago A ruba , B onaire and C uraçao , which geographically belong to the islands below the wind . Geologically, they belong to South America , as they are on the South American continental shelf . In addition to these three main islands, there are the uninhabited minor islands of Klein Curaçao and Klein Bonaire .
Aruba and Curaçao are autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands , Bonaire as a special municipality belongs directly to the Netherlands .
history
The islands first became Dutch after the conquests of the Dutch West India Company in the 17th century. Subsequently, the islands changed their affiliation to Great Britain, France and the Netherlands with different frequencies.
With the British-Dutch Treaty of 1814 , the islands finally came into Dutch possession in 1816. The colony of Curaçao en Onderhorigheden included Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire. In 1828 this was merged with the colony of Sint Eustatius en Onderhorigheden , which included the Leeward Islands of Sint Eustatius , Saba and Sint Maarten in the northeastern Caribbean, and the colony of Suriname to form a colony of Gouvernement-Generaal van's rijks West-Indian bezittingen and of Paramaribo administered in Suriname. In 1845 this colony was split up again. The colony of Curaçao en Oderhorigheiden now comprised Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Saba.
In 1948 the colony was renamed the Netherlands Antilles .
In 1951 the islands received their own regulatory powers within the colony through the Eilandenregeling Nederlandse Antilles .
At the end of 1954, the colony of the Netherlands Antilles received the status of an internally autonomous country of the kingdom through the Statuut voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (German: Charter of the Kingdom of the Netherlands , not to be confused with the Basic Law for the Kingdom of the Netherlands ).
In 1986 Aruba left the country and was henceforth an independent country within the kingdom.
On October 10, 2010, the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved. The inwardly autonomous countries of Curaçao and Sint Maarten and the special municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, which belong to the Netherlands, were created. Since then, the entirety of the Dutch Caribbean is officially called Caribisch deel van het Koninkrijk .
geography
The archipelago is off the Venezuelan coast.
The shortest distance between an ABC island and Venezuela is that between Aruba and Piedras Negras, Paraguaná peninsula, Falcón, and is approximately 24 km.
climate
Like Trinidad and Tobago and the Venezuelan Islands off the South American coast, the islands belong to the Leeward Islands , the southern part of the Lesser Antilles . This also provides information about the climate: it is dry and desert-like.
languages
In addition to Dutch, the Creole language Papiamentu is spoken on the ABC islands .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, the Netherlands Net: Netherlands Net - History - Netherlands Antilles and Surinam - Chronology of Relations. In: uni-muenster.de. www.uni-muenster.de, accessed on January 9, 2017 .
- ^ Gert Oostindie, Inge Klinkers: Decolonizing the Caribbean: Dutch Policies in a Comparative Perspective . Amsterdam University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-90-5356-654-1 .
- ↑ De administratieve Afscheiding tusschen Suriname en Curacao voor honderd jaren. In: uoc.cw. dcdp.uoc.cw, accessed January 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Eilandenregeling Nederlandse Antillen, accessed on March 7, 2017
- ↑ Wetten.nl - Regeling - Statuut voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden - BWBR0002154. In: overheid.nl. Wetten.overheid.nl, accessed on January 9, 2017 .
- ^ Ministerie van Algemene Zaken: Waaruit confirms the Koninkrijk der Nederlanden? - Vraag en antwoord - Rijksoverheid.nl. In: rijksoverheid.nl. Retrieved January 9, 2017 (nl-NL).
- ↑ http://www.distancefromto.net/