Climb The Quill volcano to explore a lush rain forest crater filled with orchids, mosses, and silk cotton trees. Dive to the Chien Tong wreck to swim with sea turtles by day and watch marine life ...
The Dutch government has taken direct control of the tiny Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius following years of neglect by the island’s local authority. Sint Eustatius is one of three Caribbean ...
Archaeologists work at the site of the former Golden Rock Plantation, where researchers recently found an 18th-century graveyard that holds the remains of at least 48 enslaved Africans. St. Eustatius ...
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America at 250: This small Caribbean island helped create the United States
It is a little-known island in the Dutch Antilles; however, it played a huge role in America’s War of Independence. St. Eustatius, popularly known as ‘Statia’, with a population of 3,348 as of January ...
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 bends ...
The Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius had become one of the busiest free ports in the Atlantic world, and Sephardic Jewish merchants played an active role. At a moment when institutions across the ...
In artist Phillips Melville's mid-20th-century painting, the brig Andrew Doria receives the United States' first international recognition of independence when it arrived in port at Sint Eustatius ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The first nation to officially recognize the United States of America was not France, Poland or Spain. It was the Netherlands, by way of a small Caribbean island that supplied the rebelling colonists ...
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