Barbuda
- ISS008-E-7945
- 13 December 2003
- 12:45 UTC
The island of Barbuda, located 45 km to the north of Antigua, is a relatively flat island of 160 km² in area situated at the northern end of the large submarine platform that it shares with Antigua. Barbuda measures 24 km in length (orientated northwest to southeast) and has a maximum width of 13 km.
The dominant feature of the island is the saline Codrington Lagoon which occupies much of the northwest coast. The interior is low and rises to 62 m in the Highlands area in the east. This limestone region contains some karst-like terrain with caverns and sinkholes occurring. A fringing reef system lines the entire east coast and much of the northern and southern coasts, where the coastline borders deeper oceanic waters exposed to the open Atlantic Ocean. The opposite and more protected (western) shore is shallow and sandy.
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