Charlotte Amalie West | |
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Census-Designated Place | |
Coordinates: 18°21′N64°57′W / 18.350°N 64.950°W | |
Country | United States |
Territory | U.S. Virgin Islands |
Island | Saint Thomas |
Population (2020) [1] | |
• Total | 4,404 |
ZIP code | 00801, 00802, 00803, 00804 |
Area code | 340 |
Major routes |
Charlotte Amalie West is a Census-Designated Place (CDP) in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on the west side of the island. It is the third largest town or census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. Virgin Islands (after Charlotte Amalie and Anna's Retreat). Together with the town of Charlotte Amalie and the census-designated place (CDP) Charlotte Amalie East, Charlotte Amalie West make up the subdistrict (or "the City") Charlotte Amalie [2]
Charlotte Amalie West is the transportion and industrial area of the island of St. Thomas. Within Charlotte Amalie West is one of the two airports in the US Virgin Islands, the Crown Bay cargo container port and cruise port, the VITRAN (Virgin Island Public Transit) bus depot, ferry docks for surrounding islands, and Randolph Harley Power Plant operated by the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) for the St. Thomas-St. John district.
Cyril E. King Airport (IATA: STT ICAO: TIST) is the busiest airport in the [[Virgin Islands}|Virgin Islands archipelago]] and second busiest in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands archipelago behind only the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina, Puerto Rico for total passengers served per year. It offers regular nonstop service to destinations to Chicago, Houston, San Juan and along the east coast of the United States.
Charlotte Amalie West also holds one of the two cruise ports in St. Thomas, the other being Havensight in Charlotte Amalie East. The Crown Bay cruise port has space for 2 large cruise ships as well as on port shopping center.
St. Thomas-St. John School District operates public schools.
Elementary Schools:
Parochial and Private Schools:
Universities and Colleges: The University of the Virgin Islands, Orville E. Kean Campus, was founded in 1962. The University of the Virgin Islands provides higher education leading to associate's, bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees, with campuses on St. Thomas and St. Croix.
The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) Buccaneers men's and Lady Buccaneers women's athletics teams since 2016 has participated in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. This membership marked a significant step in expanding UVI's athletic program, allowing its teams to compete at a national level against other colleges and universities in various sports. On of July 1, 2023, UVI athletics took another big step and became a member of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC), now the HBCU Athletic Conference (HBCUAC). The university currently competes in three sports, basketball, cross country, and track & field for both men and women.
The UVI men's and women's basketball teams play their home games at the Elridge Wilburn Blake Sports and Fitness Center on the UVI Orville E. Kean Campus. The facility is an indoor sporting arena with a capacity of 3,000 people (the largest on the island). [3]
The arena also serves as the host venue for the United States Virgin Islands Paradise Jam, an in-season college basketball exempt multiple-team event (MTE) tournament. [4]
Climate data for Charlotte Amalie West | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 86 (30) | 86 (30) | 86 (30) | 88 (31) | 88 (31) | 90 (32) | 90 (32) | 91 (33) | 90 (32) | 90 (32) | 88 (31) | 86 (30) | 88 (31) |
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 72 (22) | 72 (22) | 72 (22) | 74 (23) | 76 (24) | 77 (25) | 78 (26) | 78 (26) | 77 (25) | 76 (24) | 75 (24) | 73 (23) | 75 (24) |
Average precipitation inches (mm) | 1.89 (48) | 1.51 (38) | 1.52 (39) | 2.39 (61) | 3.36 (85) | 2.35 (60) | 2.42 (61) | 3.50 (89) | 5.34 (136) | 5.57 (141) | 5.28 (134) | 2.74 (70) | 37.87 (962) |
Source: [5] |
The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) is the only place under United States jurisdiction where the rule of the road is to drive on the left. However, virtually all passenger vehicles are left hand drive due to imports of U.S. vehicles.
Charlotte Amalie, located on St. Thomas, is the capital and the largest town of the United States Virgin Islands. It is the anchor of the subdistrict of Charlotte Amalie that is composed of the town of Charlotte Amalie, the census-designated place (CDP) of Charlotte Amalie West, and the CDP of Charlotte Amalie East. It was founded in 1666 as Taphus. In 1691, the town was renamed to Charlotte Amalie after the Danish queen Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650–1714). It has a deep-water harbor that was once a haven for pirates and is now one of the busiest ports of call for cruise ships in the Caribbean, with about 1.5 million-plus cruise ship passengers landing there annually. Protected by Hassel Island, the harbor has docking and fueling facilities, machine shops, and shipyards and was a U.S. submarine base until 1966. The town has been inhabited for centuries. When Christopher Columbus arrived in 1493, the area was inhabited by Caribs, Arawaks, Ciboney and Taíno native peoples. It is on the southern shore at the head of Saint Thomas Harbor. In 2020 the subdistrict of Charlotte Amalie had a population of 14,477 which makes it the most densely populated area in the Virgin Islands Archipelago with the town of Charlotte Amalie as the anchor of "the City". Hundreds of ferries and yachts pass by the town each week.
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