Island council (Netherlands Antilles)

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 governed by a single island council:

• Windward Islands (Dutch: de Bovenwindse eilanden)^[1]