 | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Petit Nevis" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
  Petit NevisShow map of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Petit NevisShow map of Lesser Antilles Petit NevisShow map of Caribbean | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Caribbean Sea |
| Coordinates | 12°58′27″N 61°14′37″W / 12.974031°N 61.243522°W / 12.974031; -61.243522 (Petite Nevis) |
| Area | 71 acres (29 ha) |
| Administration | |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | |
Petit Nevis is a small, privately owned island in the Grenadines, off the coast of Bequia. The island is uninhabited but is used by whalers to flense their catches. That practice is now limited by law to conserve the endangered whale population.
Whaling by early settlers to Bequia was undertaken to help feed their isolated community. Hunting is still carried out in small boats using a hand-held harpoon, a skill passed down through generations and promoted by local whale boat captain, Athneal Ollivierre (died 2000), who was also part-owner of Petit Nevis.
Eileen Corea, the last surviving, direct, legal owner of the island, died in July 2011. The island is now owned by the descendants of the previous owners.
A small isolationist community called Moonhole on nearby Bequia scavenges whale bones from the island for building materials.
References
- Mapcarta, 2018. Petit Nevis, St Vincent. Accessed 2018-03-30.
 | This Saint Vincent and the Grenadines location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |