Queen Beatrix International Airport assigned to the airfield were: On 22 October 1955, the airport was named after Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands during a royal visit, and was renamed in 1980 after her accession to the throne. 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
Kretzoiarctos beatrix 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 serves as a durophagous feeding adaptation for bamboo, and a similar tooth structure was also found in "K. beatrix"., indicating that this species may be the oldest