He visited the islands of Bonaire, Curaçao and Aruba in the West Indies (1881–1882), and investigated the guano deposits and geology of these islands.
Public opinion, however, ran strongly in favour of Wood, and he was at once appointed to the Uranie, from which, a few months later, he was moved into HMS Latona, again attached to the fleet off Brest, and again sent with convoy to the West Indies, where in January 1807 he was second in command under (Sir) Charles Brisbane at the reduction of Curaçao — a service for which a gold medal was awarded to the several captains engaged.
At the attack on Curaçao in 1804, Fitton was the only officer in the squadron who was acquainted with the island.
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The Pabao Little League of Willemstad, Curaçao defeated Conejo Valley Little League of Thousand Oaks, California (USA) in the championship game of the 58th Little League World Series, the first for the Caribbean island.
The arrival of the detachments in Aruba and Curaçao was timely as on 16 February 1942, one of the A-20A made the first Command attack on a German U-Boat when a sub was attacked eight miles off Willemstad.
His dynamic live performances and his reputation for putting on explosive shows led him to perform at the Edinburgh Festival, Soho Jazz Festival, Miami AT&T Caribbean Jazz Festival, St. Lucia, Antigua, Curaçao, St. Kitts, St.Vincent, Grenada and Barbados Jazz Festivals, Arturo continued his live performance schedule at Bob Marley's Birthday Bash, James Bond Film Festival in Jamaica, and Trinidad's Independence Day celebration in Miami.
Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).
Blue Bay (Dutch: Blauwbaai) is a beach on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, located close to the fishermen's village of Sint-Michiel to the north-west of Willemstad.
Sport Voetbal Centro Social Deportivo Barber is a Curaçao football Team Located In WestPunt Municipality Barber, And Playing in the First Division Curaçao League.
Remond was born in Salem, Massachusetts to John Remond, a free man of color from the island of Curaçao, who was a hairdresser, and Nancy Lenox, daughter of a prominent Bostonian, a hairdresser and caterer.
He was a member of the U.S. National Team, and won the silver medal at the U-18 Pan Am Cup in Curacao-Antilles and the gold medal at the 2004 World University Baseball Championship in Taiwan.
The prize was founded in memory of Jan Zwartendijk, an honorary Dutch diplomat who helped Jews escape from Lithuania by issuing bogus visas to Curacao.
Civard Sprockel (born 10 May 1983 in Willemstad, Curaçao) is a Dutch Antillean footballer who currently plays as a centre-back for Botev Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group.
The Consulate General of the United States of America Curaçao is located in Willemstad and serves Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten (countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) as well as Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius (special municipalities of the Netherlands).
Daaibooi is a beach on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, located close to the village of Sint Willibrordus, a 30 minutes drive to the north-west of Willemstad.
Named for Doyle Brunson, the 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, the Doyle Brunson Poker Network is licensed and incorporated in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles with the website also stating "Letter of Intent from Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority Received".
Also in June, the employees of DAE approached former Curacao Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte to negotiate the lifting of the suspension by the Venezuela government and allow DAE aircraft to once again operate to Venezuelan cities.
Dickinson ended his naval caraeer as a Lieutenant Commander in the Supply Corps in 1946 and entered the United States Foreign Service, where he was posted to assignments in Curaçao, Mexico City, Beirut and Paris, as well as two tours in Washington and to the US mission to the United Nations in 1960 and 1962, at which time he was political advisor and alternate US representative to the Unitre Trusteeship Council.
He is a member of the centrist Partido Antia Restrukturá (Party for a Restructured Antilles), which is based on the island of Curaçao.
Most Portuguese Jews, thousands, would eventually leave the country to Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Constantinople (Istanbul), France, Morocco, Brazil, Curaçao and the Antilles.
One-time charter flights were operated as well, including weekend sports charters, to many international destinations including Rock Sound International Airport in the Bahamas, Curaçao, Grenada and Puerto Plata in the Caribbean, Bermuda and also to Europe including London, England and Warsaw, Poland.
Ergilio Hato (1926-2003), football goalkeeper from Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
In 1998, the Island Government of Curaçao granted Dekker permission to renovate a derelict quarter of the historic neighbourhood of Otrobanda into a hotel and casino.
After the war, in 1816, Le Couteur was appointed Aide-de-camp to his father, Lieutenant-General John Le Couteur, in Curaçao before returning to Canada the following year.
International traffic departs from JMC towards destinations in the United States, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Curaçao and Spain, The airport also serves domestic flights to most major Colombian cities such as Bogota, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta and San Andres Island.
Luigison V. Doran (born 29 September 1987 in Willemstad, Curaçao) is a footballer with UNDEBA (Union Deportivo Banda Abou) in Curaçao.
Following the opening of the Panama Canal, Royal Dutch Shell established an important petroleum refinery in the port of Willemstad due to its naturally deep harbor, its stable government, and Curaçao's proximity to Venezuelan oil fields.
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The indigenous Wayuu managed contraband trading routes through Maicao arriving from Aruba, Curaçao, Venezuela and other Caribbean sea territories mostly coffee, alcohol, tobacco and weapons among other taxable articles.
Marcello "Chelo" Michelangel Anthony Pisas (born 4 September 1977 in Willemstad) is a Curaçao footballer Professional who currently plays as a Goalkeeper for Centro Social Deportivo Barber in Netherlands Antilles First League.
In 1941 he travelled across the Soviet Union by train to Vladivostok, on to Japan, departing ostensibly for Curaçao (then part of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean) but using forged papers to come instead to Sydney, Australia, where he worked as a violinist and music arranger.
However, in order to embark in a U.S. port and disembark in a second U.S. port, the vessel must visit a distant foreign port outside of North America (Central America, Bermuda. the Bahamas, and all of the Caribbean except Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, count as part of North America).
Playa Kanoa is a beach on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, located to the north of Willemstad.
Playa Porto Marie is a beach on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, located near the village of Sint Willibrordus, at the Porto Marie Bay.
The independent cabinets of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten also have their own prime ministers: Mike Eman (Prime Minister of Aruba), Gerrit Schotte (Prime Minister of Curaçao), and Sarah Wescot-Williams (Prime Minister of Sint Maarten).
Such weaponry included 400 Enfield rifles, 45 snider rifles, 110 carbines, 87 handguns and one cannon with 200 shells, culminated from hidden caches on Saint Thomas, Curaçao and Haiti.
The ship's mid-Atlantic service was also viewed as rather out of the ordinary: Lisbon to Madeira, to Tenerife, to La Guaira, to Curaçao, to Havana (later San Juan), and lastly Port Everglades.
Seaquarium Beach (also called Sea Aquarium Beach) is a beach on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, located to the south of Willemstad.
She also traveled to Cannes, France, on 9 December 2009, for the Five Star Diamond awards, with Miss USA Kristen Dalton, and to Willemstad, Curaçao and Barquisimeto, Venezuela, as well, in early January 2010, for the Procesión de la Divina Pastora (Procession of the Holy Shepherdess).
He has also taught comparative media law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Cyber law at The University of Netherland, Antilles in Curacao, and U.S. Constitutional and copyright law at Shandong University, China.
VAW-77 continues to operate out of Howard AFB, Panama; Patrick AFB, Florida; Comalapa Air Force Base, El Salvador; Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Manta Air Force Base located at the Eloy Alfaro International Airport in Manta, Ecuador; and Hato International Airport, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.
Vensecar Internacional operates freight services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Aruba, Barbados, Bogotá, Curaçao, Miami, Panama City, Port of Spain, and Santo Domingo.
In 1962, he signed with the Alegre Records label and traveled and performed with his band in Venezuela, Panama, Colombia, Mexico, Curaçao, U.S. Virgin Islands and all over the United States.