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Saint Christopher
Country	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Archipelago	Leeward Islands
Region	Caribbean
Area	65 sq. mi. 168 km²
Coastline	- km
Highest elevation	Mt. Liamunga 3,796 ft. 1,156 m
Population  - Density	35,000 ppl. - 538.5 ppl./sq.mi. 208.3 ppl./km²

Saint Kitts (also/previously known as Saint Christopher) is an island in the Caribbean. Together with the island of Nevis it, constitutes the nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. The island is situated at 17°15′N 62°40′W, about 1,300 miles (2,100 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, in the United States. It has a land area of about 65 sq. miles (168 km²), being 18 by 5 miles (29 by 8 km). Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Map of Saint Kitts and Nevis. ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including independent states (both those that are internationally recognised and generally unrecognised), inhabited dependent territories and areas of special sovereignty. ... The Mergui Archipelago An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. ... The Leeward Islands are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles. ... West Indian redirects here. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... For other uses, see Saint Christopher (disambiguation). ... West Indian redirects here. ... Official language English Political status State in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis Premier Joseph Parry Deputy Governor-General[1] Eustace John President, Nevis Island Assembly Marjorie Morton Capital Charlestown, Nevis Area  - Total (Not ranked) 35. ... Miami redirects here. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²)  - Width 162 miles (260 km)  - Length 497 miles (800 km)  - % water 17. ...

It has a population of around 35,000, the majority of whom are of African descent. The main language is English, although there is also a lingering French presence, and the literacy rate is approximately 98%. Residents call themselves Kittitians (never Kittians). The African diaspora or Afro diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and culture of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia . ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

St. Kitts is home to Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine [1], and the Windsor University School of Medicine. [2] Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is a British military engineers who designed it and to the skill, strength and endurance of the African slaves who built and maintained it. ... Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ...

Parishes

Parishes of Saint Kitts and Nevis

An aerial view of the north-west of St. Kitts. Brimstone Hill is visible in the centre-bottom of the picture.

Main article: Parishes of Saint Kitts and Nevis

There are nine parishes on the island of St. Kitts: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (620x657, 22 KB) Summary Data can be used freely (no guarantees for their accuracy are given, as this usually depends on the source of the data), reference to the site, though, is welcome. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (620x657, 22 KB) Summary Data can be used freely (no guarantees for their accuracy are given, as this usually depends on the source of the data), reference to the site, though, is welcome. ... Image File history File links StKitts_Aerial. ... Image File history File links StKitts_Aerial. ... Battle of Saint Kitts, 1782, as described by an observer in a French engraving titled Attaque de Brimstomhill. Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of historical, cultural and architectural significance: a monument to the ingenuity of the British military engineers who designed it and to... Saint Kitts and Nevis is divided into 14 parishes: Christ Church Nichola Town Saint Anne Sandy Point Saint George Basseterre Saint George Gingerland Saint James Windward Saint John Capisterre Saint John Figtree Saint Mary Cayon Saint Paul Capisterre Saint Paul Charlestown Saint Peter Basseterre Saint Thomas Lowland Saint Thomas Middle... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ...

• Christ Church Nichola Town
• Saint Anne Sandy Point
• Saint George Basseterre
• Saint John Capisterre
• Saint Mary Cayon
• Saint Paul Capisterre
• Saint Peter Basseterre
• Saint Thomas Middle Island
• Trinity Palmetto Point

www.combatgrounds.com/page.php?id=741971 Christ Church Nichola Town is one of 14 administrative parishes that make up Saint Kitts and Nevis. ... Saint Anne Sandy Point is part of Saint Kitts. ... Saint George Basseterre is one of 14 administrative parishes that make up Saint Kitts and Nevis. ... Saint John Capisterre is one of 14 administrative parishes that make up Saint Kitts and Nevis. ... Saint Mary Cayon is one of 14 administrative parishes that make up Saint Kitts and Nevis. ... Saint Paul Capisterre is one of 14 administrative parishes that make up Saint Kitts and Nevis. ... Saint Peter Basseterre is one of 14 administrative parishes that make up Saint Kitts and Nevis. ... Saint Thomas Middle Island is one of 14 administrative parishes that make up Saint Kitts and Nevis. ... Trinity Palmetto Point is one of 14 administrative parishes that make up Saint Kitts and Nevis. ...

Geography

The capital of the two-island nation, and also its largest port, is the city of Basseterre on Saint Kitts. There is a modern facility for handling large cruise ships here. There is a ring road which goes around the perimeter of the island; the interior of the island is too steep for inhabitation. The city of Basseterre, estimated population 15,500 (2000), is the capital of the federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies. ... Pacific Sky sails under Sydney Harbour Bridge A cruise ship is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ships amenities are considered an essential part of the experience. ...

St. Kitts is six miles (10 km) away from Saint Eustatius to the north and two miles (3 km) from Nevis to the south. St. Kitts has three distinct groups of volcanic peaks: the North West or Mount Misery Range; the Middle or Verchilds Range and the South East or Olivees Range. The highest peak is Mount Liamuiga, formerly Mount Misery, a dormant volcano some 3,793 feet (1,156 m) high. Map showing location of Sint Eustatius relative to Saba and Sint Maarten/Saint Martin Sint Eustatius (also Saint Eustace and Statia), pop. ... Official language English Political status State in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis Premier Joseph Parry Deputy Governor-General[1] Eustace John President, Nevis Island Assembly Marjorie Morton Capital Charlestown, Nevis Area  - Total (Not ranked) 35. ... This article is about volcanoes in geology. ...

Economy

Kittitians use the Eastern Caribbean dollar which maintains a fixed exchange rate of 2.70-to-one with the United States dollar. The US dollar is just as widely accepted as the Eastern Caribbean dollar. The East Caribbean dollar (ISO currency code: XCD) is the currency of eight political states in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory[1], the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ...

For hundreds of years, St. Kitts operated as a sugar monoculture. But due to decreasing profitability, the government shut the industry in 2005. Tourism is a major and growing source of income to the island, although the number and density of resorts is less than on other Caribbean islands. Transportation, non-sugar agriculture, manufacturing and construction are the other growing sectors of the economy [3]. Magnification of typical sugar showing monoclinic hemihedral crystalline structure. ... Monoculture describes systems that have very low diversity. ... Tourists at Oahu island, Hawaii Tourism is the act of travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. ...

History

Battle of St. Kitts, 1782, as described by an observer in a French engraving titled "Attaque de Brimstomhill".

Main article: History of Saint Kitts and Nevis

During the last Ice Age, the sea level was 200 feet (60 m) lower and St. Kitts and Nevis were one island with Saint Eustatius (also known as Statia) and Saba. Image File history File links StKitts_Brimstomhill. ... Image File history File links StKitts_Brimstomhill. ... The Battle of St. ... At the time of European discovery, Island Carib inhabited the islands of St. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ... Map showing location of Sint Eustatius relative to Saba and Sint Maarten/Saint Martin Sint Eustatius (also Saint Eustace and Statia), pop. ... Motto: Remis Velisque. ...

St. Kitts was originally settled by pre-agricultural, pre-ceramic "Archaic people", who migrated down the archipelago from Florida. In a few hundred years they disappeared, to be replaced by the ceramic-using and agriculturalist Saladoid people around 100 BC, which migrated to St. Kitts up the archipelago from the banks of the Orinoco River in Venezuela. Around 800 AD, they were replaced by the Igneri people, members of the Arawak tribe. Fixed Partial Denture, or Bridge The word ceramic is derived from the Greek word κεραμικός (keramikos). ... Farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field. ... The Saladoid are a native people of the Caribbean and Venezuela. ... This page is about the Orinoco River, for the Aphra Behn novel see Oroonoko With a length of 2140 km, the Orinoco is one of the largest rivers of South America. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The term Arawak (from aru, the Lokono word for cassava flour), was used to designate the Amerindians encountered by the Spanish in the Caribbean. ...

Around 1300, the Kalinago, or Carib people arrived on the islands. These war-like people quickly dispersed the Igneri, and forced them northwards to the Greater Antilles. They named Saint Kitts "Liamuiga" meaning "fertile island", and would likely have expanded further north if not for the arrival of Europeans. Drawing of Caribe woman Carib or Island Carib is the name of a people of the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea was named; their name for themselves was Kalinago for men and Kallipuna for women. ... The Greater Antilles, an island group in the Caribbean Sea, are part of the Antilles. ...

Early European contact with St. Kitts included the Spanish under Christopher Columbus, and a French Jesuit settlement at Dieppe in 1538. The first permanent settlement was an English colony in 1623, followed by a French colony in 1625. The British and French briefly united to massacre the local Kalinago (preempting a Kalinago plan to massacre the Europeans), and then partitioned the island, with the English in the middle and the French on either end. Christopher Columbus (Genoa?, Italy, 1451? – Valladolid, Spain, May 20, 1506) was a navigator and maritime explorer credited as the discoverer of the Americas. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ...

The island alternated repeatedly between English and French control over the century, as one power took the whole island, only to have it switch hands due to treaties or further military action. Parts of the island were heavily fortified, as exemplified by UNESCO World Heritage Site at Brimstone Hill and the now-crumbling Fort Charles. The island became British for the final time in 1783. Battle of Saint Kitts, 1782, as described by an observer in a French engraving titled Attaque de Brimstomhill. Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of historical, cultural and architectural significance: a monument to the ingenuity of the British military engineers who designed it and to... Fort Charles is an old British fort on the island of St. ...

African slavery

The island originally produced tobacco, but changed to sugar cane in 1640 due to stiff competition from the colony of Virginia. The labour-intensive farming of sugar cane was the reason for the large-scale importation of African slaves. The importation began almost immediately upon the arrival of Europeans to the region. According to one source: ^{[citation needed]} Species Nicotiana acuminata Nicotiana alata Nicotiana attenuata Nicotiana benthamiana Nicotiana clevelandii Nicotiana excelsior Nicotiana forgetiana Nicotiana glauca Nicotiana glutinosa Nicotiana langsdorffii Nicotiana longiflora Nicotiana obtusifolia Nicotiana paniculata Nicotiana plumbagifolia Nicotiana quadrivalvis Nicotiana repanda Nicotiana rustica Nicotianasuaveolens Nicotiana sylvestris Nicotiana tabacum Nicotiana tomentosa Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005... Species Ref: ITIS 42058 as of 2004-05-05 Sugarcane is one of six species of a tall tropical southeast Asian grass (Family Poaceae) having stout fibrous jointed stalks whose sap at one time was the primary source of sugar. ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ... World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second_largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: slave Slave may refer to: Slavery, where people are owned by others, and live to serve their owners without pay Slave (BDSM), a form of sexual and consenual submission Slave clock, in technology, a clock or timer that synchrnonizes to a master clock...

The transportation of enslaved Africans to the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis began soon after Europeans began to colonise islands. The first recorded presence of African slaves in Nevis can be found in the will of James Hewitt dated the 9th August 1649. He left half a plantation in Gingerland and another plantation in Indian Castle to his wife which also included three indentured servants and four nigroes. One of the slaves was also noted to be "out in rebellion", another way of describing a slave who was a runaway.

The purchasing of enslaved Africans was outlawed in the British Empire by an Act of Parliament in 1807. Slavery was abolished by an Act of Parliament became law on the 1st August 1834. This emancipation was followed by four years of apprenticeship, put in place to protect the plantation owners from losing their labour force. The 1st August is now celebrated as a public holiday and is called Emancipation Day. In 1883 St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla were all linked under one presidency, located on St. Kitts, to the dismay of the Nevisians and Anguillans. Anguilla eventually separated out of this arrangement in 1971, after an armed raid on St. Kitts. // This article is about crop plantations. ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... Emancipation Day is a national holiday in Trinidad and Tobago which celebrates the Emancipation of slaves in the British Empire on August 1, 1834. ... Official language English Political status State in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis Premier Joseph Parry Deputy Governor-General[1] Eustace John President, Nevis Island Assembly Marjorie Morton Capital Charlestown, Nevis Area  - Total (Not ranked) 35. ...

Sugar production continued to dominate the local economy until 2005, when, after 365 years as a monoculture, the government closed the sugar industry. This was due to the industry's huge losses and European Union plans to cut sugar prices by large amounts in the near future.

• Lord Hercules George Robert Robinson was governor of Saint Christopher from 1855 to 1859.
• Robert Bradshaw was a major political figure in St. Kitts from 1932 to his death in 1978.
• Official Name: The Federation of St. Christopher and Nevis
• The History of St. Kitts Nevis: a Black Perspective

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Gallery

The peninsula on the south-east tip of St. Kitts. The island on the left is Nevis. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1632x1224, 464 KB) This file was first taken by (and then released to wikpedia by) kayokayo. ... Official language English Political status State in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis Premier Joseph Parry Deputy Governor-General[1] Eustace John President, Nevis Island Assembly Marjorie Morton Capital Charlestown, Nevis Area  - Total (Not ranked) 35. ...	Downtown Basseterre Image File history File links 3643_aquaimages. ...	Downtown Basseterre Image File history File links 3649_aquaimages. ...	Fishing boat, Basseterre harbor Image File history File links 3668_aquaimages. ...
Flamingo Tongue shell on a Sea Fan Image File history File links 3476_aquaimages. ...	Divers and anemone on the MV River Taw wreck Image File history File links 3537_aquaimages. ...	Juvenile French Angelfish near a sunken van Image File history File links 3584_aquaimages. ...	Diver and fish, MV River Taw wreck Image File history File links 3624_aquaimages. ...
Diver and sponges Image File history File links 3682_aquaimages. ...	Royal Gramma or Fairy Basslet Image File history File links 3757_aquaimages. ...

See also

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External links

• Saint Kitts Tourism Authority - Official Site
• Christmas Sports in Saint Kitts/Nevis