ABSTRACT
Now an independent state of the Windward Islands, St. Lucia has a total land area of 606 square kilometers, it has a coastline of 158 km, and the highest point is Mount Gimie. “In the mid-20th century, Saint Lucia joined the West Indies Federation and in 1967 became one of the six members of the West Indies Associated States, with internal self-government. In 1979, Saint Lucia gained full independence”. The Institute of Surveyors St. Lucia was founded in September of 2003 and is the latest development of a long history of surveying and mapping of the island dating back to the 1771 survey of the Bexton and Forrestierre areas. The British Directorate of Colonial Surveys (DCS), later the Directorate of Overseas Surveys and now the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom first published 1:25,000 scale topographic maps of the island in 1958.
