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The current name Nevis was derived from the Spanish name Nuestra Señora de las Nieves by process of abbreviation and anglicisation. The Spanish name means Our Lady of the Snows. It is not known who chose this name for the island, but it is a reference to the story of a 4th-century Catholic miracle related to a snowfall on the Esquiline Hill in ...
Map of St. Kitts and Nevis. Nevis is the more southerly of the two islands. Pinney's Beach extends for 3 miles north of Charlestown. Pinney's Beach in 2010. Pinney's Beach, also spelled Pinneys Beach, is a very long sandy beach on the western Caribbean coast of the island of Nevis, in Saint Kitts and Nevis, [1] Leeward Islands in the West Indies.
The parish capital of Saint John Figtree is the settlement known as Church Ground. The parish church, Fig Tree Church, is notable for being the location where the registration of the marriage between young Nevisian plantation family widow Frances Nisbet and Horatio Nelson was carried out, in 1787, when Nelson was still a young sea captain.
Saint Kitts and Nevis (/-ˈ k ɪ t s ... ˈ n iː v ɪ s / ⓘ), officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, [7] is an island country consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles.
This is a list of cities and towns in Saint Kitts and Nevis. For convenience, the list is organized by parishes, which are the administrative units of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Note that the majority of these settlements, especially on Nevis, are small and would usually be considered to be villages rather than towns.
The Lesser Antilles [1] is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, forming part of the West Indies in Caribbean region of the Americas.They are distinguished from the larger islands of the Greater Antilles to the west.
No domestic terrestrial television stations; Marpin Telecoms and SAT Telecommunications Ltd, Dominica's cable TV operators both offer locally produced programming, plus channels in NTSC from the US, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Guadeloupe and Martinique (converted from SECAM). SAT Telecommunications Ltd delivers its offering via ...
The French permanently settled on Martinique and Guadeloupe after being kicked off Saint Kitts and Nevis (Saint-Christophe in French) by the British. [2] Fort Royal (Fort-de-France) on Martinique was a major port for French warships in the region from which the French were able to explore the region.