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Saint Martin (French: Saint-Martin; Dutch: Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico.The 87-square-kilometre (34 sq mi) island is divided roughly 60:40 between the French Republic (53 km 2 or 20 sq mi) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km 2 or 13 sq mi), but the Dutch part is more populated than the French part.
Sint Maarten (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪntˈmaːrtə(n)] ⓘ) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean region of North America. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of 34 km 2 (13 sq mi), it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the northern 56% of the island constitutes the French overseas collectivity ...
Maho Beach. Maho Beach is a beach on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, in the territory of Sint Maarten. It is famous for being adjacent to the Princess Juliana International Airport and is a popular site for tourists and plane watchers, who visit the beach to watch aircraft on final approach land at the airport.
Philipsburg ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfilɪbzˌbʏr (ə)x]) is the main town and capital of Sint Maarten, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The town is on a narrow stretch of land between Great Bay and the Great Salt Pond. It functions as the commercial center of Saint Martin island, whereof Sint Maarten encompasses the ...
Princess Juliana International Airport ( IATA: SXM, ICAO: TNCM) is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. The airport is located on the Dutch side of the island, in the country of Sint Maarten, close to the shore of Simpson Bay Lagoon. In 2015, the airport handled 1,829,543 passengers and around 60,000 aircraft movements. [2]
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Sint-Maarten. The island of Saint Martin is split in half, with the northern half administered by France, and the southern half, cited here, administered by the Netherlands. The avifauna of Sint-Maarten included a total of 182 species, according to Bird Checklists of the World as of July 2022.
Reptiles. Including marine turtles and introduced species, there are 17 reptile species reported on Saint Martin. One species, the Bearded Anole ( Anolis pogus ), is endemic to Saint Martin. Its local population of one species, the regionally endemic and endangered Lesser Antillean Iguana ( Iguana delicatissima ), was recently extirpated. [3]
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Saint Martin. Of the mammals of Saint Martin, only bats are native. Apart from bats, many oceanic mammals, exotic mammals and domesticated species can be found within and around the island. Native rodents, such as the blunt-toothed giant hutia and oryzomyines, are known to extirpated from the ...