An island council was the governing body of an island territory, an administrative level of the Netherlands Antilles until its dissolution.
Island councils existed for:
Aruba (until its secession from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986)
Bonaire
Curaçao
Saba
Sint Eustatius
Sint Maarten
The latter three were until 1 April 1983[1][2][better source needed] governed by a single island council:
Windward Islands (Dutch: de Bovenwindse eilanden)[3]
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- ^ Johnson, Will. "The saba islander". The saba islander. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "LANDSVERORDENING van de 11de februari 1983 tot wijziging van de Eilandenregeling Nederlandse Antillen (P.B. 1951, no. 39)" (in Dutch). Government of the Netherlands. Retrieved 10 March 2011.[permanent dead link]