SSS islands
| SSS islands | ||
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| Waters | Caribbean Sea | |
| archipelago | Leeward Islands | |
| Geographical location | 17 ° 49 ′ N , 63 ° 6 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 3 main islands 6 minor islands |
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| Total land area | 68 km² | |
The group of islands Sint Eustatius and Saba as well as Sint Maarten are called SSS islands ; the latter is the Dutch part of the island of St. Martin . The archipelago belongs to the Lesser Antilles , among them it belongs to the Leeward Islands . The SSS islands are part of the Dutch Caribbean .
Sint Maarten has been one of the four countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 2010, and Sint Eustatius and Saba have been special municipalities of the Netherlands since then .
Sint Maarten includes the side islands of Guana Key, Cow & Calf, Hen & Chickens, Molly Beday and Pelikan Key; the sub-island Green Island belongs to Saba .
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 Sint Eustatius en Onderhorigheden included Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Saba. In 1828 this was merged with the colony of Curaçao en Onderhorigheden , which included the Leeward Islands Curaçao , Aruba and Bonaire in the southern Caribbean, and the colony of Suriname to form a colony of Gouvernement-Generaal van's rijks West-Indian bezittingen and from Paramaribo in Suriname managed. 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 as "Eilandgebied de Bovenwindse Eilanden" through the Eilandenregeling Nederlandse Antilles .
At the end of 1954 the colony of the Netherlands Antilles received the status of an 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 1983 the Netherlands Antilles Eilandenregeling was changed so that now each island became an independent island area .
On October 10, 2010, the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved. The 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rijksdienst Caribisch Nederland ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 10, 2017 (PDF).
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ a b 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).
