Windwardside
Windwardside is the second largest town on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba, aptly named for being on the windward side of the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Radioflux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Niptium, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 418 residents
- Description: human settlement in Saba, the Caribbean Netherlands
- Also known as: “Windward Side”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Trinity Church and Mount Scenery.
Mount Scenery
Volcano
Photo: Richie Diesterheft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Scenery is a dormant volcano in the Caribbean Netherlands. Its lava dome forms the summit of the Saba island stratovolcano. At an elevation of 870 m, it is the highest point in both the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and, since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, the highest point in the Netherlands proper.
Queen of the Holy Rosary Church
Church
Photo: Richie Diesterheft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Holy Rosary Church, also known as the Queen of the Holy Rosary Church, is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic church in the small town of Hell's Gate on the island of Saba, a dependent territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zion’s Hill and St. Johns.
Zion’s Hill
Village
Photo: Niptium, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zion's Hill, also known by its former name Hell's Gate, is a town on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba. Locally, it is divided into Upper Hell's Gate and Lower Hell's Gate.
St. Johns
Hamlet
Photo: Zagersid, Public domain.
St. Johns is a settlement on the island of Saba, in the Caribbean Netherlands. It is located between the island's two largest settlements of The Bottom and Windwardside.
The Bottom
Village
Photo: Simonwwong, Public domain.
The Bottom is the capital and largest town of the island of Saba, the Caribbean Netherlands. It is the first stop on the way from Saba's Port in Fort Bay towards the rest of the island.
Windwardside
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Saba, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.62911° or 17° 37′ 45″ northLongitude
-63.23197° or 63° 13′ 55″ westPopulation
418Elevation
403 metres (1,322 feet)Open location code
779RJQH9+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 441943833OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3513083Wikidata ID
Q2983401
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Frisian—“Windwardside” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ուինդուարդսաիդ”
- Basque: “Windwardside”
- Belarusian: “Уіндвардсайд”
- Cebuano: “Windward Side”
- Chinese: “温沃塞德”
- Chinese: “温沃德赛德”
- Dutch: “Bovenwindseside”
- Dutch: “Windwardside”
- French: “Windwardside”
- German: “Windwardside”
- Irish: “Windwardside”
- Italian: “Windwardside”
- Polish: “Windwardside”
- Portuguese: “Windwardside”
- Russian: “Уиндвардсайд”
- Serbian: “Виндвардсајд”
- Spanish: “Windwardside”
- Swedish: “Windwardside”
- Ukrainian: “Віндвардсайд”
- Western Frisian: “Windwardside”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saba Tourist Bureau and St. Paul’s Conversion Church.
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