<div dir="auto"><div>I'm going to be on Sint Maarten the first full week in September for vacation. If the local people there want to have an event of some type that week I'll try my best to attend. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Contact me off line if you want to talk further about a WML event there.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sydney<br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 2, 2017 1:07 PM, "Ciell Wikipedia" <<a href="mailto:ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com">ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all!<br><br></div>Looks like we are really going to make it: the islands of the Dutch Carribean are joining Wiki Loves Monuments 2017!<br> <br></div>Wikipedia on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Caribbean" target="_blank">Dutch Carribean</a>: <br><p><i>The <b>Dutch Caribbean</b> refers to territories, colonies, and countries, both former and current, of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Empire" title="Dutch Empire" target="_blank">Dutch Empire</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Kingdom of the Netherlands" target="_blank">Kingdom of the Netherlands</a> that are located in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Antilles" title="Lesser Antilles" target="_blank">Lesser Antilles</a> archipelago of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Sea" title="Caribbean Sea" target="_blank">Caribbean Sea</a>.</i></p><i>
Current territories comprise the islands of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba" target="_blank">Aruba</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao" target="_blank">Curaçao</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten" target="_blank">Sint Maarten</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaire" title="Bonaire" target="_blank">Bonaire</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius" target="_blank">Sint Eustatius</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saba" title="Saba" target="_blank">Saba</a>.
 The contemporary term is sometimes also used for the Caribbean 
Netherlands, an entity since 2010 consisting of the three islands of 
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, which are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands#Administration" title="Caribbean Netherlands" target="_blank">special municipalities of the Netherlands</a>.<br><br></i></div>The Dutch team is supporting the Dutch Carribean in collecting the lists needed for the competition and facilitating the juryprocess. <br></div>Are you a resident of the islands, do you want to join the team and help? Let me know!<br><br></div>Cheers,<br></div>Ciell<br></div>
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