Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park
Parish of St Thomas, St Christopher
(St Kitts)
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Identifier |
910 |
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category |
cultural |
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criteria |
(iii)(iv) |
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Title |
brimstone hill fortress national park |
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latitude |
17.3469390869 |
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longitude |
-62.8372192383 |
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location |
parish of st thomas, st christopher
(st kitts) |
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Region |
latin america and the caribbean |
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year |
1999 |
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unique number |
1063 |
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description |
brimstone hill fortress national park is an outstanding, well-preserved example of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture in a caribbean context. designed by the british and built by african slave labour, the fortress is testimony to european colonial expansion, the african slave trade and the emergence of new societies in the caribbean. |
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justification |
criterion (iii): brimstone hill is an outstanding british fortress, built by slave labour to exact standards during a peak period of european colonial expansion in the caribbean. criterion (iv): because of its strategic layout and construction, brimstone hill fortress is an exceptional and well preserved example of 17th and 18th century british military architecture. |
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