BES-øyene

Norwegian Bokmål Karibisk Nederland no thumb|The locations of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba in the Caribbean. thumb|Salt flats in southern Bonaire. thumb|The Quill volcano on Sint Eustatius. thumb|A view across Saba from Mount Scenery. Etymology Probably a nb nl BES-eilanden BES Islands 1. The initialism is formed from the first letters of nl Bonaire Bonaire, nl Sint Eustatius (Sint) Eustatius and nl Saba Saba. The final element, nb øyene the islands, is the definite plural of nb øy island, inherited from nb non ey island, from nb gem-pro *awjō floodplain, meadow, island, from earlier gem-pro *agwjō, ultimately from nb ine-pro *h₂ékʷeh₂ water. Parallel formations include nl BES-eilanden, da BES-øerne, de BES-Inseln and en BES Islands. Pronunciation nb /beː.eːˈɛsˌœʏ.ən.ə/ [beː.eːˈɛs.ˌœʏ̯.ən.ə] nb ɛsœʏənə 6 nb B E S øy en e Proper noun nb proper noun p BES-øyene BES Islands; nb a <<group of islands>> in the <<r/Caribbean>>, comprising Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, three special municipalities of <<c/Netherlands>> Islands Geographic and cultural areas of North America. nb BES-øyene ble en del av Nederland da De nederlandske Antillene ble oppløst i 2010. The BES Islands became part of the Netherlands when the Netherlands Antilles were dissolved in 2010. nb 30 December 2025 Nils Petter Thuesen Bonaire Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Bonaire Øya utgjør en kommune med spesiell status i kongeriket Nederland som den ene av BES-øyene (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius og Saba) eller Karibisk Nederland. The island constitutes a municipality with special status in the Kingdom of the Netherlands as one of the BES Islands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), or the Caribbean Netherlands. https://web.archive.org/web/20260906111406/https://snl.no/Bonaire 6 September 2026 Usage notes nb BES-øyene and nb Karibisk Nederland denote the same three islands. The islands do not constitute a single municipality or unified local administrative body. Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba are three separate special municipalities of nb Nederland the Netherlands. The term should not be confused with nb Nederlandsk Karibia the Dutch Caribbean, which additionally includes Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, or with nb ABC-øyene the ABC Islands, comprising Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. Synonyms nb Karibisk Nederland Caribbean Netherlands See also nb ABC-øyene ABC Islands nb De nederlandske Antillene Netherlands Antilles nb Kongeriket Nederlandene Kingdom of the Netherlands nb Nederlandsk Karibia Dutch Caribbean References “Karibisk Nederland” in Store norske leksikon. “Bonaire” in Store norske leksikon. “Forkortelser” at Språkrådet. “Wenselijkheid van en mogelijkheden voor een Algemene wet bestuursrecht voor de BES-eilanden”, Government of the Netherlands.