Queen Beatrix International Airport Queen Beatrix International Airport Queen Beatrix International Airport (Dutch: "Internationale luchthaven Koningin Beatrix"; Papiamento: "Aeropuerto Internacional Reina Beatrix"), is an international airport located in Oranjestad, Aruba. It has flight services to the United States, Trinidad and Tobago, most countries in the Caribbean, the northern coastal countries of South America, Canada, and some parts of Europe, notably the Netherlands. It is named after Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, the now-retired Queen and former head of state of Aruba. The airport offers US Border Pre-clearance facilities. A terminal for private aircraft opened in 2007. This airport used to serve as the hub
Kretzoiarctos beatrix has been put forward as a possible cause for the significant decline in Ursidae species diversity in the late Miocene, including the species of the genus "Kretzoiarctos. Kretzoiarctos beatrix Kretzoiarctos beatrix is an extinct bear from the European Miocene and an ancestor of the extant giant panda. "Kretzoiarctos beatrix" is the ancestral group of the Ailuropodinae subfamily according to fossil records from the middle Miocene of Spain. Based on teeth structure, researchers have speculated that this species may have been a small herbivorous animal that ate very hard plants. The giant panda ("Ailuropoda melanoleuca") has a special craniodental structure that