<Li> United States dollar </Li> <Li> Netherlands Antillean guilder </Li> <P> The ABC islands are the three western-most islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea that lie north of Falcón State, Venezuela . In order from west to east they are Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire . All three islands are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, although they remain outside the European Union . Aruba and Curaçao are autonomous, self - governing constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while Bonaire is a special municipality of the Netherlands proper . </P> <P> Some think that the ABC islands were first explored by one of Christopher Columbus' captains, Alonso de Ojeda, who landed on Curaçao in 1499 . He is said to have called the islands Las islas de los Gigantes or Islands of the Giants due to the native inhabitants, the Caiquetio Indians . The first known European exploration was by Amerigo Vespucci, whose cartographer Juan de la Cosa first described the islands . The first Spanish colonists, unable to find any gold or silver, kidnapped most of the natives to work on plantations on the island of Hispaniola . By 1527 the Spanish had formed a government and established Catholicism on the islands . </P>

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