Great Salt Pond, Sint Maarten
Pond on Sint Maarten in the Dutch Caribbean
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Great Salt Pond is a 188 ha 465 acres water body in the country of Sint Maarten on the island of Saint Martin in the Dutch Caribbean. It has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports a large seasonal aggregation of laughing gulls. It borders the capital city of Philipsburg and is the largest pond on the island. It has a high salinity (27-38 parts per thousand) and suffers pollution from landfill and urban runoff.
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Sint Maarten
Island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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SSS islands
Group of islands in the Dutch Caribbean
1.3 mi away
Philipsburg, Sint Maarten
Place in Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands
0.5 mi away
Attack on Saint Martin
1644 battle of the Eighty Years' War
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Capture of Saint Martin (1633)
1633 naval battle of the Eighty Years' War
0.1 mi away
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