ABSTRACT
With hundreds of miles of Caribbean Sea in between, the Dutch Windward islands - Saba, St Maarten and St Eustatius - and the Dutch Leeward islands - Aruba, Bonaire and Curac;ao - together form the remnants of Dutch expansion in the New World and are still Dutch territories. In total, these islands have a population of some 264,000 (1992) spread across 1,000 square kilometres (386 square miles).
