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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.
Nevis is located near the northern end of the Lesser Antilles archipelago about 350 kilometres (220 mi) east-southeast of Puerto Rico and 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Antigua. Its area is 93 square kilometres (36 sq mi) and the capital is Charlestown.
Visible in the distance is St. Kitts. Saint Thomas Lowland is one of 5 Nevis parishes which are in turn part of the 14 administrative parishes that make up the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles, West Indies. The coast of this parish consists primarily of sand beaches, most notably the 3-mile long Pinney's Beach.
Charlestown is the capital of the island of Nevis in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies. Charlestown is situated on the leeward side of the island of Nevis near the southern end of Pinney's Beach . Charlestown was originally called Bath Bay in reference to Bath Stream, a stream noted for its ...
The first Europeans to see and name the islands were the Spanish under Christopher Columbus, who sighted the islands on 11 and 13 November 1493 during his second voyage. He named Saint Kitts San Jorge ( Saint George) and Nevis San Martin (sighted on Saint Martin's Day ). By 1540, Nieves was used by the Spanish, an abbreviation of Santa Maria de ...
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ˈniːvɪs / ⓘ ), officially the Federation of Saint Kitts 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. With 261 square kilometres (101 sq mi) of territory, and roughly 48,000 inhabitants, it is the smallest ...
Saint Kitts and Nevis accepted the convention on July 10, 1986, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. As of 2023, Saint Kitts and Nevis has only one World Heritage Site, Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, which was inscribed in 1999. [2]