Location: Caribbean, islands in the Caribbean Sea, about one-third of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago
Geographic coordinates: 17 20 N, 62 45 W
Map references: Central America and the Caribbean
Area:
total:
261 sq km (Saint Kitts 168 sq km; Nevis 93 sq km)
land:
261 sq km
water:
0 sq km
Area - comparative: 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC
Land boundaries: 0 km
Coastline: 135 km
Maritime claims:
continental shelf:
200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
territorial sea:
12 nm
contiguous zone:
24 nm
exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
Climate: tropical tempered by constant sea breezes; little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season (May to November)
Terrain: volcanic with mountainous interiors
Elevation extremes:
lowest point:
Caribbean Sea 0 m
highest point:
Mount Liamuiga 1,156 m
Natural resources: arable land
Land use:
arable land:
22%
permanent crops:
17%
permanent pastures:
3%
forests and woodland:
17%
other:
41% (1993 est.)
Irrigated land: NA sq km
Natural hazards: hurricanes (July to October)
Environment - current issues: NA
Environment - international agreements:
party to:
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Whaling
signed, but not ratified:
none of the selected agreements
- See also : Saint Kitts and Nevis
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reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! .