Saba has given an nickname namely "The Unspoiled Queen" and its an small island in the Caribbean Sea. Since 2010 its governed directly from the Netherlands before that it was part of the Netherlands Antilles. With that change the highest point of the Netherlands is found on Saba, Mount Scenery has an elevation of 887 m (2,910 ft) and also an potential active volcano. Around 1900 people live on the island and the most speak English despite Dutch is main language. This happened that the island switch many times of ownership with the British, so English stuck. There are two daunting facts, one is an road and the other is an airport. Engineers were convinced that it was not possible to build an road on Saba. An local self-taught man with the name Josephus Lambert Hassel believed it could be done. He take an correspondence course in engineering and with an crew of locals they start building the road in 1938. It was finished after 20 years work and "The Road" has some difficult to take curves, its an pretty daunting drive. The second is Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport with the shortest commercial runway in the world with an length of 400 m (1,312 ft) and only propeller plane are allowed to land. High hills on the side and cliffs at both ends that drops in the sea make it an daunting task too. So lets take an look at the flag of this tiny tropical part of the Netherlands.
The flag is dived in four equal triangles, the upper parts has two red ones and the bottom two are blue. The center is an white colored diamond shape with an yellow(golden) star. De star represented Saba itself and an golden future. The color white symbolize peace and purity. Red symbolize courage, unity and vigor. Blue symbolize the sea that is important to the people of Saba. Obviously the red, white and blue represented the ties with the Netherlands and the rest of the Dutch Antilles. The flag is simple but strong with the meaning of it, most of the time four colors are enough in an flag.
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