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Sint Eustatius

Sint Eustatius (/juˈstʃəs/ yoo-STAY-shəs, Dutch pronunciation: [sɪnt øːˈstaːtsijʏs] ),[7] known locally as Statia (/ˈstʃə/ STAY-shə),[8] is an island in the Caribbean. It is a special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands.[9]

Sint Eustatius

Alida Francis (Government commissioner)[1]

21 km2 (8 sq mi)

3,242

154/km2 (405/sq mi)

St. Eustatian; Statian

The island is in the northern Leeward Islands, southeast of the Virgin Islands. Sint Eustatius is immediately to the northwest of Saint Kitts and southeast of Saba. The regional capital is Oranjestad. The island has an area of 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi).[2] Travelers to the island by air arrive through F. D. Roosevelt Airport.


Formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, Sint Eustatius became a public body of the Netherlands in 2010.[10] It is part of the Dutch Caribbean, which consists of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten. Together with Bonaire and Saba, it forms the BES Islands, also referred to as the Caribbean Netherlands.[11]

Etymology[edit]

The island's name, Sint Eustatius, is Dutch for Saint Eustace (also spelled Eustachius or Eustathius), a legendary Christian martyr, known in Spanish as San Eustaquio and in Portuguese as Santo Eustáquio or Santo Eustácio.


The island's prior Dutch name was Nieuw Zeeland ('New Zeeland'), named by the Zeelanders who settled there in the 1630s.[12][13] It was renamed Sint Eustatius shortly thereafter.[12]


The indigenous name for the island is Aloi meaning "cashew island" (origin Arawak).[14][15]

Demography[edit]

Population[edit]

As of January 2022, the population was 3,242,[3] with a population density of 154 inhabitants per square kilometre.

Education[edit]

Dutch government policy towards St. Eustatius and other SSS islands promoted English medium education. Sint Eustatius has bilingual English-Dutch education.[74]


Gwendoline van Putten School (GVP) is a secondary school on the island.


Other schools include: Golden Rock School, Gov. de Graaff School, Methodist School, SDA School.[75]

Sports[edit]

The most popular sports on Sint Eustatius are football,[76] futsal,[77][78] softball,[79] basketball, swimming and volleyball. Due to the small population, there are few sport associations. One of them, the Sint Eustatius Volleyball Association, is a member of ECVA and NORCECA. Currently St. Eustatius is a non-active member of the Caribbean zone of Pony Baseball and Softball leagues.

(c. 1763–1805), colonial governor

Antony Beaujon

(b. 1969), politician

Gerald Berkel

(18th century), methodist preacher

Black Harry

(b. 1979), artist

Kizzy

(1914–1994), writer and poet

Lolita Euson

(b. 1981), artist

Ziggi Recado

singer

Shirma Rouse

Caribbean Netherlands

Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles

Governors of Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten

F. D. Roosevelt Airport

Great Hurricane of 1780

Index of Netherlands Antilles-related articles

Plantations of Sint Eustatius

Arbell, Mordechai (2002). The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean, The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas. Jerusalem: Geffen Press.  978-9652292797.

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Attema, Y (1976). A Short History of St. Eustatius and its Monuments. Zutphen: Walburg Pers.  978-9060111536.

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Bernardini, P; Fierling, N, eds. (2001). The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450–1800. New York: Berghahn Books.  978-1571811530.

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Ezratty, Harry (2002) [1997]. 500 Years in the Jewish Caribbean – The Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the West Indies. Baltimore, MD: Omni Arts.  978-0942929188.

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Hartog, J (1976). History of St. Eustatius. Central USA Bicentennial Committee of the Netherlands Antilles.

Hearst, Ronald (1996). The Golden Rock. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press.

(1797). "St. Eustatius". The American Gazetteer. Boston, MA: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews. OL 23272543M.

Morse, Jedidiah

Spinney, David (1969). Rodney. London: Allen & Unwin.  978-0049200227.

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O'Shaughessy, Andrew Jackson (2013). The men who lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.  978-1-78074-246-5.

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Tuchman, Babara W (1988). The First Salute. Westminster, MD: Alfred A. Knopf.  978-0394553337.

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St. Eustatius Government

St. Eustatius Tourist Office's homepage

The website of STENAPA, the National Parks of St. Eustatius

St. Eustatius info in Lonely Planet website

St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research

The Farm in St. Eustatius: Not Dead Yet

Colorful stories from St. Eustatius' eventful history. Saba invasion

Colorful stories from St. Eustatius' eventful history. Bermuda connection

by Louis Arthur Norton

"Retribution: Admiral Rodney and the Jews of St. Eustatius"