Netherlands Antilles Vacations

The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen (help·info)), previously known as the Netherlands West Indies or Dutch Antilles/West Indies, is part of the Lesser Antilles and consists of two groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea: Curaçao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, located southeast of the Virgin Islands

National Archaeological Anthropological Museum of the Netherlands Antilles - National Archaeological Anthropological Museum of the Netherlands Antilles - The Museum will give visitors a view of St. Martin, Statia, Saba, Bonaire, and Curacao, from prehistoric times to the present.

Netherlands Antilles is a country in Caribbean with legal gambling. Netherlands Antilles is divided into states and then cities. There are 3 states in Netherlands Antilles which have 26 legal gambling facilities available in total. The 26 gambling facilities consist strictly of casinos.

Legally the only types of gambling available in Netherlands Antilles are: casinos.

The state with the highest number of casinos in Netherlands Antilles is Sint Maarten with 13 casino operators. There are 26 gaming machines in Netherlands Antilles. The biggest casino in Sint Maarten if you measure by gaming machines is Dolphin Casino - Caravanserai Beach Resort with a total of 520 machines.

The city with the highest number of casinos in Netherlands Antilles is Willemstad with 9 casino facilities and 18 slot machines. The casino city of Willemstad is located in state of Curacao.

The biggest casino in the entire country of Netherlands Antilles is Princess Port de Plaissance Hotel and Casino which is located in Cole Bay, Sint Maarten. Princess Port de Plaissance Hotel and Casino has 25 table games and 1350 casino slots / video poker games (or other video terminal gaming machines).

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The windward islands are all of volcanic origin and hilly, leaving little ground suitable for agriculture. The leeward islands have a mixed volcanic and coral origin. The highest point is Mount Scenery, 862 metres (2,828 ft), on Saba (also the highest point in all the Kingdom of the Netherlands).

The Netherlands Antilles have a tropical climate, with warm weather all year round. The windward Islands are subject to hurricanes in the summer months.

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The Netherland Antilles have no major administrative divisions, although each island has its own local government.

The two island groups of which the Netherlands Antilles consists are:

• the "Leeward Islands" (Benedenwindse Eilanden), part of the Leeward Antilles island chain off the Venezuelan coast (along with Aruba):
  • Bonaire, including an islet called Klein Bonaire ("Little Bonaire")
  • Curaçao, including an islet called Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao")
• the "Windward Islands" (Bovenwindse Eilanden) east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. These are part of what are in English called the Leeward Islands, but in e.g. French, Spanish,Dutch and the English spoken locally these are considered part of the Windward Islands.
  • Saba
  • Sint Eustatius
  • Sint Maarten, the southern half of the island Saint Martin (the northern half, Saint-Martin, is an overseas collectivity of France).

The Netherlands Antilles national football team is the national team of the Netherlands Antilles and is controlled by the Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie. Aruba split in 1986 and has its own team.

The Netherlands Antilles team has never qualified for the World Cup. The country managed to come third in the CONCACAF championships of 1963 and 1969; for four days in March 1963 they could have been regarded as unofficial World Champions, beating Mexico 2-1 before losing to Costa Rica 0-1.

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