Great Salt Pond
The Great Salt Pond is the largest lake within Saint Kitts and Nevis.- Type: Bay
- Description: lake in Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Also known as: “Grande Saline” and “Salt Pond”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newcastle and Cotton Ground.
Newcastle
Village
Newcastle is a village on the northern coast of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is the capital of Saint James Windward Parish. The village is just to the east of Vance W. Amory International Airport and sits across from the Narrows, the strait which separates Nevis from Saint Kitts.
Cotton Ground
Village
Cotton Ground is a town on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is the capital of Saint Thomas Lowland Parish. Horatio Nelson restocked the HMS Boreas at the lagoon near Cotton Ground.
Basseterre
Photo: Gilles Messian, CC BY 2.0.
Basseterre on the west coast of the island of Saint Kitts is the capital city of the two-island nation, the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Basseterre is one of the oldest towns in the Eastern Caribbean, but most of the city structures were built after the great fire of 1867.
Great Salt Pond
- Categories: lake and body of water
- Location: Saint George Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.24301° or 17° 14′ 35″ northLongitude
-62.64784° or 62° 38′ 52″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
779V69V2+6VOpenStreetMap ID
way 671763922OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Great Salt Pond” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “大盐池”
- Chinese: “大鹽池”
- Croatian: “Veliko slano jezero”
- German: “Great Salt Pond (St. Kitts)”
- German: “Great Salt Pond”
- Japanese: “グレート・ソルト池”
- Spanish: “Great Salt Pond”
- Swedish: “Great Salt Pond, Saint Kitts och Nevis”
- Swedish: “Great Salt Pond”
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Localities in the Area
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