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. ... Fort Oranje, Upper Town. 011-599 ... Perched atop the fort’s old ...

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 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.