Sr., one of the Leeward Islands, in the West Indies, between Saba and St Christopher's, 15 miles from the former, and 8 from the latter. N. Lat. 17. 31.; W. Long. 63. 3. It is a high rock, rising from the waves in the form of a pyramid, and is 29 miles in circumference. The climate is healthy, and the soil, which is cultivated to the very summit, most prolific. Like other islands in this region of the globe, St Eustatius is subject to the desolating visitation of thunder-storms and hurricanes. The latter are most to be dreaded during August and September.

There is only one landing-place, which, besides being difficult of access, is strongly fortified; a precaution which has been taken with every assailable point in the island. Besides growing sugar, cotton, maize, and large quantities of tobacco, the inhabitants rear great quantities of the smaller kinds of live-stock, in which they carry on a considerable contraband trade with the neighbouring islands. St Eustatius was settled by the Dutch as early as the beginning of the seventeenth century; but in 1665 it was taken by the British, who in their turn were ejected by the French. In 1781 it yielded to Admiral Rodney, but was again wrested from the English by the French; and, after repeatedly changing masters according to the varying fortunes of war, it was finally transferred to the Dutch government at the peace of 1814. Pop. about 3000.