SAINT CHRISTOPHER, NEVIS & ANGUILLA

SAINT CHRISTOPHER, NEVIS & ANGUILLA.

Crater of Mount Misery, in Saint Kitts, and portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
Seventh stamp in a set of 16, issued on 20.11.1963.
Face value: 6 cents of Eastern Caribbean dollar.

Catalogues
- Scott No. 151.
- StampWorld No. 45.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 135.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 165.

Mount Misery, named Mount Liamuiga after the independence of St. Kitts and Nevis (1983) is a 1,156 m (3,792 ft) stratovolcano that forms the western part of the island of Saint Kitts. It is the highest peak on the island and of all the British Leeward Isles. It is topped by a 0.6 mile (1 km) wide summit crater, which contained a shallow crater lake until 1959, and which was re-formed in 2006. The last verified eruptions of the volcano were around 1,800 years ago, while reports of possible eruptions in 1692 and 1843 are considered uncertain.

Saint Christopher, Nevis, and Anguilla was a British colony in the West Indies from 1882 to 1983, consisting of the islands of Anguilla (until 1980), Nevis, and Saint Christopher (or Saint Kitts). From 1882 to 1951, and again from 1980, the colony was known simply as Saint Christopher and Nevis. Saint Christopher and Nevis gained independence on 9 September 1983 as the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, while Anguilla would remain a British overseas territory. The islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis had been British colonies since the 17th century, although they were always administered separately. In 1871, Saint Kitts and Nevis became presidencies within the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands, with Anguilla attached to Saint Kitts as a dependency in the same year. However, in 1882, the Leeward Islands legislature merged the two presidencies, forming a combined St. Kitts and Nevis presidency. In 1951, the name of the colony was changed to include Anguilla. The Colony of the Leeward Islands was dissolved in 1958, due to frequent tensions between its members. From 1958 to 1962, Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla formed a province of the Federation of the West Indies.