Bonaire, Criojo i Lingua di Guéné, Simadan, Tambú and Barí songs, Creole Masquerade, Brulé Vaval and Vidé, Curasauwse Makamba, 1890-2013
Bonaire, A Maritime History, Religion of the New World, Agustín Beltrán Caicedo Velasco, Miguel Alejo Schabel and the Church of the Opressed, 1499-1738
Bonaire, A Maritime History, Prins Willem IV van Oranje-Nassau, Capitein Hendrik Rietveld, Broken Mast and Men, 1781-1783
Bonaire, A Maritime History, History of Willemstoren, Luitenant-Admiraal Cornelis Schrijver, Conflits entre la Maison d’Orange et la WIC, 1737-1823
Bonaire, A Maritime History, Joost van Trappen, Adriaan de Pater, The WIC in Bonaire, The 60 Spaniards, The Houses of Rincon and Fontein in Fire, 1628-1632
Bonaire, A Maritime History, L’Oncle Américain, Consultat des États-Unis à Curaçao, La Maison Roosevelt, 1793-1950
Bonaire, A Maritime History, Limite Territoriale des Eaux Néerlandaises, Différends Territoriaux du Venezuela, 1978-1987
Bonaire, A Maritime History, Arend Evert van den Brandhof, The Governor of Bonaire perished in Curaçaoan Waters, June 1910
Bonaire, Shipwrecks of Bonaire, Scheepsramp, The Supercargo Ceres, Rotterdam and the Shipping Disasters, 1817-1824
Bonaire, Music and Instruments, Kos Bon So, Bam Canta, Bamba, Karkó, Beku, Barí di Boneiru, Zag, Kachete di Buriku, Tambú and Komba Bâton, 1652-2008
Bonaire, The Sharks of Bonaire, Carcharhinus Leucas, Cai Peninsula, A second Bull Shark sighting in Lac Bay, 2013
Bonaire, Haute Cuisine in Bonaire, The Bonaire Culinary Team, Taste of the Caribbean, 2013
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Bonaire, History, The Caribbean Salt War, Huguenots, Anglicans, Privateers, Corsairs, Sea Beggars, La Rochelle, St Malo, Dieppe, Fécamp, Yport, 1521-1627 (0)
If the Dutch were denied Iberian salt, they were also deprived of the Caribbean supplies which they had been exploiting since the 1590′s. By the late 1620′s very little Caribbean salt was reaching Holland. It is true that in shifting the focus of their carrying trade from the peninsula to western France, the Dutch were… Read More ›
- Bonaire, History, Lagoen, Plantation Owners of Bonaire, Pieter Muller Dammers and the barrels of Gold, 1833-1850
- Bonaire, History, Curaçao Papers, Kunuku and Plantation Owners of Bonaire, the Full List, 1781-1865
- Bonaire, History, Skippers of Bonaire, Ship Building, Jan Nicolaas Erasmus Craane, 1879-1974
Artifacts »
Bonaire, Criojo i Lingua di Guéné, Simadan, Tambú and Barí songs, Creole Masquerade, Brulé Vaval and Vidé, Curasauwse Makamba, 1890-2013 (0)
1889. Ipi en Cobi IPI EN COBI ZIJN schuilnamen voor de twee broers Ludovik en Vincent Jansen. Vincent Jansen was geen Dominicaan, maar voelde wel veel voor het werk van zijn broer, de Dominicaan, te Curacao en kwam ook maar in 1876 alswereldheer. Men maakte hem pastoor van San Willibrordo. Hij ging daar direct een… Read More ›
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, Religion of the New World, Agustín Beltrán Caicedo Velasco, Miguel Alejo Schabel and the Church of the Opressed, 1499-1738
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, Prins Willem IV van Oranje-Nassau, Capitein Hendrik Rietveld, Broken Mast and Men, 1781-1783
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, History of Willemstoren, Luitenant-Admiraal Cornelis Schrijver, Conflits entre la Maison d’Orange et la WIC, 1737-1823
Maps and Charts »
Bonaire, A Maritime History, Joost van Trappen, Adriaan de Pater, The WIC in Bonaire, The 60 Spaniards, The Houses of Rincon and Fontein in Fire, 1628-1632 (0)
In 1628, Joost van Trappen, Piet Heyn’s rear admiral in the adventure of Matanzas, visited Bonaire. In 1629, another agent of the WIC, Adriaan Janszoon Pater, passed the Curacao islands without disembarking, although on his return voyage a year later he did stay for a few days on Bonaire. (Cornelis Christiaan Goslinga – 1979 –… Read More ›
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, L’Oncle Américain, Consultat des États-Unis à Curaçao, La Maison Roosevelt, 1793-1950
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, Limite Territoriale des Eaux Néerlandaises, Différends Territoriaux du Venezuela, 1978-1987
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, Arend Evert van den Brandhof, The Governor of Bonaire perished in Curaçaoan Waters, June 1910
People »
Bonaire, Shipwrecks of Bonaire, Scheepsramp, The Supercargo Ceres, Rotterdam and the Shipping Disasters, 1817-1824 (0)
Shipping disasters De eerste scheepsramp, die na het elders gemelde vergaan van de brik „Ceres” bij Bonaire op eind December 1817 de vloot van Van Hoboken treft, is de stranding van de kof „Koophandel”. Het schip was onderweg onder kapitein A. Schaap (nb: Capitaine Ary Schaap, En partance d’Alexandrie, Égypte. Échoué à Bandol le 21… Read More ›
- Bonaire, Music and Instruments, Kos Bon So, Bam Canta, Bamba, Karkó, Beku, Barí di Boneiru, Zag, Kachete di Buriku, Tambú and Komba Bâton, 1652-2008
- Bonaire, The Sharks of Bonaire, Carcharhinus Leucas, Cai Peninsula, A second Bull Shark sighting in Lac Bay, 2013
- Bonaire, Haute Cuisine in Bonaire, The Bonaire Culinary Team, Taste of the Caribbean, 2013
Pirates and battles »
Bonaire, A Maritime History, The Seaman’s Manual, Exchange Calculation in the West Indies, 1830 (0)
St. Eustatia, St. Martin, Curaçao. Accounts are kept in these islands, in Pieces of eight, that is, Piastres current, of 8 Reals or Schillings, each Real being subdivided into 6 Stivers. The Piastre Gourde, or Spanish Dollar passes for 11 Reals or Bits; and thus the current piastre, is worth 3S 5d. sterling, reckoning the… Read More ›
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, La Guerre de Course, Salvaging the Cannons of Las Aves, Admiraal Michiel de Ruyter, Le Sieur de Grammont, 1673-1688
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, François Raymond Joseph de Pons, The French Navy Report on Contraband Trade in Curaçao, 1801-1804
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, Gens de Couleur Libres, Integration and Independence, the End of State Colonialism, 1789-2010
Shipwrecks of Bonaire »
Bonaire, Haute Cuisine in Bonaire, Les Meilleurs Ouvriers de Bonaire, Master Cooks of Kralendijk, 2013 (0)
The 2 MO’s of Bonaire The story comes from Patrice Rannou’s mouth; while chatting with him in 2011, he said he was Meilleur Ouvrier de Bretagne in the eighties and he further added he wasn’t the only one in Bonaire, Wil was Meilleur Ouvrier d’Amsterdam in the same period. The “Meilleurs Ouvriers” (literally the best… Read More ›
South-SE »
Bonaire, A Maritime History, Archeological samples of Wood, Isla de Brazil, Haematoxylon Brasiletto, Scorafixa, Stockvishout, 1500-1971 (0)
Archeological samples of Wood The wood types most frequently associated with the archeological samples from Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao are lignum-vitae (Guaiacum sp.), buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus), caper tree (Capparis sp.) and stron bark (Bourreria sp.), probably B. succulenta or “watakeli”. These trees are all very drought tolerant or able to withstand high soil salinity, and… Read More ›
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, The Black Army and the French Connection, Jean-François Papillon, Toussaint Breda, André Rigaud, 1791-1797
- Bonaire, The Sharks of Bonaire, East Coast, Tarpon Pit, Carcharhinus Leucas, Michael Pement and the Bull Sharks, 2013
- Bonaire, A Maritime History, Uithoek, Vice-commander Johannes Geijsen, Commanders Bay and the Brandaris, Historical Anchorage of Slagbaai, 1756-1774
