Photographs of St Kitts
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St. Kitts & Nevis are located in the northern part of the Leeward
Islands in the eastern Caribbean, 19 degrees north of the equator,
separated by a channel two miles wide. Officially the island’s name is
St Christopher, but it is universally known as St Kitts. It gained its
independence from the British in 1983.
The capital of the Island is Basseterre and it retains much of the elegant
Georgian character of Nelson's days. The centrepiece of the town is its
Circus, a diminutive roundabout modelled in proper Victorian patriotism
after Piccadilly, in London. In the middle of the Circus stands the
bright green bronze of the Berkeley Memorial Clock, an ornate, cast
iron tower with four clock faces and more than a little architectural decoration.