Netherlands and France
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SSS islands
Part of Caribbean
The SSS islands (Dutch: SSS-eilanden), locally also known as the Dutch Windward Islands (Bovenwindse Eilanden or Bovenwinden), is a collective term for the three territories of the Dutch Caribbean (formerly the Netherlands Antilles) that are located within the Leeward Islands group of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.
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Overview
The SSS islands (Dutch: SSS-eilanden), locally also known as the Dutch Windward Islands (Bovenwindse Eilanden or Bovenwinden), is a collective term for the three territories of the Dutch Caribbean (formerly the Netherlands Antilles) that are located within the Leeward Islands group of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. In order of population size, they are: Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius, and Saba. In some contexts, the term is also used to refer to the entire island of Saint Martin (which also includes the Collectivity of Saint Martin), alongside Sint Eustatius and Saba. The SSS islands were island territories of the Netherlands Antilles, until its dissolution in 2010. Since then, Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while Sint Eustatius and Saba are special municipalities of the Netherlands. "SSS" is an acronym of the islands' names, and is analogous to the ABC, CAS, and BES islands, which are other commonly used subdivisions of the Dutch Caribbean.
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Census, cataloged
- Major islands3
- Minor islands0
- Islets2
- Rocks & skerries7
Major islands
Saint Martin
- Area
- 72.7 km²
- High point
- 418 m
Sint Maarten, officially the Country of Sint Maarten, is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean region of North America.
Sint Eustatius
- Area
- 20.9 km²
- High point
- 600 m
Sint Eustatius, known locally as Statia, is an island in the Caribbean. It is a special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands.
Saba
- Area
- 13.1 km²
- High point
- 870 m
Saba is a Caribbean island and the smallest special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. 3 ft) is the highest point of the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands. The island lies in the northern Leeward Islands portion of the West Indies, southeast of the Virgin Islands.
Islets
- Green Island4 m · 0.3 ha
- Unnamed island7 m · 0.1 ha
Rocks & skerries
- Man of War Rock<0.1 ha
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
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Comparative heights
- Saba: 870 m
- Sint Eustatius: 600 m
- Saint Martin: 418 m
- Green: 4 m
To the same scale
Islands by area
| Saint Martin | 72.7 km² |
| Sint Eustatius | 20.9 km² |
| Saba | 13.1 km² |
| Green Island | 0.3 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.1 ha |
| Man of War Rock | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
Overlapping groups
Photographs
Ruins of 18th century warehouses on the beach of Lower Town, St. Eustatius (Caribean Netherlands)
View of Windwardside from Booby Hill
Sources
Facts
Photographs
- Lower Town Sint Eustatius. Walter Hellebrand / CC BY-SA 3.0
- Windwardside. Carl Pruneau / CC BY-SA 3.0