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With a new ferry service from nearby St Kitts, under-the-radar Sint Eustatius has never been more accessible – James Litston sets sail to find out why it should feature in your holiday plans
There are several trips daily. On rare occasions there is a special ferry day trip from Basseterre to Oranjestad, St Eustatius and back again. A relatively new (started in 2007) car ferry, which can take up to 35 cars and also takes pedestrian passengers, is called the "Sea Bridge" ferry, and is in operation between the two islands.
Sint Eustatius as photographed from the International Space Station View looking southeast along the Atlantic coast, showing the airport runway in the middle distance, Lynch Beach beyond that, then the Quill, St. Eustatius's dormant volcano, and over the water in the distance, the northern end of the island of St. Kitts
By 1900, The Bottom was one of four main villages on Saba, along with St. John's, Windwardside, and Hell's Gate. [9] In 1909, a navigation school opened in The Bottom; it operated until 1922. [ 6 ] In 1919, construction began on the Weselyan Holiness Church in The Bottom; [ 5 ] the church is still operational today.
Since then, Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while Sint Eustatius and Saba are special municipalities of the Netherlands. "SSS" is an acronym of the islands' names, and is analogous to the ABC , CAS , and BES islands, which are other commonly used subdivisions of the Dutch Caribbean.
Andrew Doria receives a salute from the Dutch fort at Sint Eustatius, 16 November 1776. The islands of the Dutch Caribbean were, formerly, part of Curaçao and Dependencies (1815–1828), or Sint Eustatius and Dependencies (1815–1828), which were merged with the colony of Suriname (not actually considered part of the "Dutch Caribbean", although it is located on the Caribbean coast of ...
The headquarters of STENAPA in Lower Town, St. Eustatius, 2010. STENAPA (an acronym for St. Eustatius National Parks) is the national parks organisation of Sint Eustatius, a small Dutch island in the Caribbean. The island is situated within the inner arc of the Leeward Island chain of the Lesser Antilles, West Indies. Sint Eustatius is south of ...
Golden Rock is the name of an archaeological site in the centre of the island of Sint Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean, named after a nearby former plantation. Golden Rock was the nickname of Sint Eustatius from its prominence as a major colonial trading port in the late 17th and early 18th century.