Coat of arms of Saba

The coat of arms of Saba was established in 1985 by the island council of Saba, when it was still part of the Netherlands Antilles and remained the coat of arms of the special municipality Saba after its dissolution.^[1] It consists of a shield with the local bird Audubon's shearwater and the islands itself. The weapon also contains a fish, a sailing boat and potato, which are symbols for fisheries, Saban seamen and the Saban potato. The motto is written the shield Latin: Remis velisque (literally with oars and sails).

References

↑ "Eilandsverordening van 6 december 1985 tot vaststelling van het wapen van het wapen van het Eilandgebied Saba" (in Dutch). overheid.nl. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

Coats of arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

National

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Subnational

Constituent countries	Aruba Curaçao Netherlands Sint Maarten

Provinces	Groningen

Public bodies	Bonaire Saba Sint Eustatius

Municipalities	Amsterdam Bellingwedde Beverwijk Haarlem The Hague Hoorn Maastricht Rotterdam Zaanstad

Historical

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Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States

Dependencies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Navassa Island Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

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Coat of arms of Saba

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