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Banda Islands on the island Banda Naira, constructed in 1609 .

Albany, New York or nearby in 1614 for the Indian Trade . Later replaced by Fort Orange .

Gloucester, New Jersey in 1626 also for the Indian trade.

Senegal , along with Fort Oranje constructed on an island purchased from the head of a local tribe.

Ghana , along with Fort Oranje and Fort Amsterdam. Later used for the Slave trade. Probably constructed in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century.

In the Netherlands at Aardenburg in Zeeland , originally named Fort Nieuw Terhofstede, together with the inevitable Fort Oranje constructed in 1621-1622.

On a hill on the Caribbean island of Curaçao near Willemstad , later converted to a restaurant.

In addition, a Fort Nassau in The Bahamas , under British control, was the site of a naval action and amphibious landing during the American Revolutionary War in 1775 .