The warm trade winds that ushered Admiral Horatio Nelson to Antigua in 1784 now cast their spell over visitors to this Leeward Islands nation. English Harbour, the former British naval stronghold, is a 15-square-mile historic district and home to Nelson's Dockyard National Park, the only Georgian dockyard in the world. Explore 18th-century sugar plantations transformed into bars and restaurants, set sail along the coast or snorkel the many coral reefs. Thirty miles north, the flat coral isle of Barbuda beckons nature lovers with shell-laden pink sands and a Frigate Bird Sanctuary.

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