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 Translation for 'Sint Eustatius' from English to French
géogr.
Saint-Eustache {f} [une île des Caraïbes, territoire néerlandais d'outre-mer]
Sint Eustatius [an island in the Caribbean and a special municipality of the Netherlands]
géogr.pol.
Saint-Martin {f} [aussi : le Pays de Saint-Martin] [un pays au sein du royaume des Pays-Bas]
Sint Maarten <.an, .sx> [a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean]
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Usage Examples English
  • This arc was formed by the collision of the South American Plate with the Caribbean Plate and includes active and extinct volcanoes such as Mount Pelee, the Quill (volcano) on Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean Netherlands and Morne Trois Pitons on Dominica.
  • Currently the Netherlands has a lieutenant governor overseeing each of the three special municipalities in the Caribbean Netherlands – Saba, Bonaire, and Sint Eustatius – where their function is similar to a mayor in the European Netherlands.
  • When the Dutch lost Sint Maarten (and Anguilla where they had built a fort shortly after arriving in Sint Maarten) to the Spanish, they settled Curaçao and Sint Eustatius.
  • During the last ice age, when the sea level was 60 m lower, the three islands of Saint Kitts, Nevis and Sint Eustatius (also known as Statia) were connected as one island.
  • Territory included the islands of Aruba until 1986 and Curaçao, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten (which is the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin) until 2010 when the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved.

  • away from Sint Eustatius to the north and [...] from Nevis to the south.
  • Curaçao and Sint Maarten became distinct constituent countries alongside Aruba which had become a distinct constituent country in 1986; whereas Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba (the "BES Islands") became special municipalities within the Netherlands proper.
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