An island council was the governing body of an island territory, an administrative level of the Netherlands Antilles until its dissolution. Island councils existed for: * Aruba (until its secession from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986) * Bonaire * Curaçao * Saba * Sint Eustatius * Sint Maarten The latter three were until 1 April 1983 governed by a single island council: * the Windward Islands (Dutch: de Bovenwindse eilanden)