Pinney's Beach

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Pinney's Beach, 2010.

Pinney's Beach (also: Pinneys Beach ) is a long sandy beach on the west coast of the Caribbean island of Nevis , in the island state of St. Kitts and Nevis , Lesser Antilles .

geography

The beach stretches for three miles (4.5 km) north from the outskirts of the capital Charlestown and ends at the northernmost point of Cades Bay , where the ferry terminal of the "Sea Bridge" is located, not far from the inlet of the Narrows . He belongs to the Parish Saint Thomas Lowland . Pinney's Beach got its name from " Pinneys Estate ". The plantation belonged to the Pinney family, an established Nevis settler family, in the 19th century.

Individual evidence

  1. geonames.org .

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Coordinates: 17 ° 9 '10 "  N , 62 ° 37' 44"  W.