Sint Eustatius can be accessed from St Martin on Win Air (fly-winair.sx). KLM (0871 231 0000; klm.com ) flies to St Martin from a range of UK airports via Amsterdam. Staying there ...

Regional carrier Winair offers multiple daily flights from St. Maarten to Sint Eustatius starting at $171 round trip. WHERE TO STAY. The Old Gin House . ... Fort Oranje, Upper Town.

Next to the towering kapok tree, Dirk, my conspicuously tall hiking companion, doesn’t seem so tall anymore. The skyscraping kapok’s yards-wide trunk, covered in wrinkled gray bark, rises and ...

The tiny Dutch-controlled island of Sint Eustatius—referred to as Statia by “the few people on Earth” who know it ... I focused on history. Fort Oranje overlooks what was once a ...

The importance of this moment was acknowledged by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, who came to Sint Eustatius in 1939 and presented a plaque that is currently on display in Fort Oranje.

An etching depicting Sint Eustatius in 1781, ... Thousands more were bought and sold at Fort Amsterdam, a port at the north end of Oranje Bay.