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Notes on Brimstone Hill, St. Kitts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. T. Trechmann
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BRIMSTONE HILL, 779 feet high, on the north-west side of the island of St. Kitts, or St. Christopher, about a third of a mile from the sea, lies about 2½ miles south-west of Mount Misery, the culminating point, which is said to be 3,711 feet high and to have a crater lake. Several other peaks of the island rise to over 1,000 feet, and to the south-east of Mount Misery another weathered cone is Mount Olivees, 2,781 feet high. About 12 miles to the north-west of St. Kitts is the Dutch island of St. Eustatius, or Statia, a dormant volcanic cone about 594 metres high on the south-west side of which great slabs of white sedimentary rock, called the White Wall, are seen tilted up against the side to a height of 315 metres. Further still to the north-west is the volcanic cone of Saba. South-east of St. Kitts, and nearly adjoining it is Nevis, which consists of a central cone and several subsidiary craters. These islands—Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, and Nevis—lie in a slightly curved line in a north-west and south-east direction.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 69 , Issue 6 , June 1932 , pp. 241 - 264
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1932

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