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Bonaire

American  
[baw-nair] / bɔˈnɛər /

noun

  1. an island in the E Netherlands Antilles, in the S West Indies. 95 sq. mi. (245 sq. km).


Bonaire British  
/ bɒnˈɛə /

noun

  1. an island in the S Caribbean, in the E Netherlands Antilles: one of the Leeward Islands. Chief town: Kralendijk. Pop: 11 537 (2007 est). Area: about 288 sq km (111 sq miles)

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In 2018, it seized barrels of crude stored at facilities on the Dutch Caribbean islands of Curaçao, Bonaire and Sint Eustatius, according to a person familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

In the first few weeks the oil spill spread hundreds of miles, reaching as far as the island of Bonaire, a Dutch municipality, in the Caribbean.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

He and other researchers have documented obvious swaths of these algae in Puerto Rico and one bay in Bonaire.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 6, 2023

For the last 10 years I’ve lived on the small Caribbean island of Bonaire, where I work as a marine conservationist photographer.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2022

Of course, they were only the tattered-sailed native schooners from Venezuela, Aruba, or Bonaire coming in with bananas, oranges, papayas, melons, and vegetables.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor