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The capital of the two-island nation, and also its largest port, is the town 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 habitation.
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 3,792 feet (1,156 m) high.
All eyes are on the International Whaling Commission as it meets in St. Kitts and Nevis. Since the 1986 "moratorium" on whaling, IWC membership has swelled to 69 countries, including St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Belize, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts and Nevis. Federated By Ferries ~ St. Kitts And Nevis - Part 1 ~ by Deb Andrews - In St. Kitts, some of the land for sale on the southern side of the island and the arid eastern end is in private hands, and though difficult to find is available to non-nationals. The rest of it is government owned and almost impossible to buy in a normal life time! Governments move in inexplicably slow time dimensions and in even more mysterious marketing realms. For example, advertising half acre plots at $40,000 a piece through SKY TV in the UK only.
St.Kitts / Nevis Weekly News Reports
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