The British Virgin Islands are located in the Caribbean, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico. Its geographic coordinates are 18°30′N64°30′W. Map references include Central America and the Caribbean. The area totals 151 km² and comprises 16 inhabited and more than 20 uninhabited islands; includes the islands of Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda and Jost van Dyke. Maritime claims include 3 nmi of territorial sea and exclusive a 200 nmi fishing zone. In terms of land use, it is 20% arable land, 6.67% permanent crops and 73.33% other as of a 2005 figure. It has strong ties to nearby U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
The United States Virgin Islands are a group of several dozen islands and cays located in the Caribbean, about 1,100 miles (1,770 km) southeast of Florida, 600 miles (966 km) north of Venezuela, 40 miles (64 km) east of Puerto Rico, and immediately west and south of the British Virgin Islands.
The Virgin Islands are geologically and biogeographically the easternmost part of the Greater Antilles, the northern islands belonging to the Puerto Rican Bank and St. Croix being a displaced part of the same geologic structure. Politically, the British Virgin Islands have been governed as the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, and form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The archipelago is separated from the true Lesser Antilles by the Anegada Passage and from the main island of Puerto Rico by the Virgin Passage.
The Little Sisters is an informal name for a group of some of the smaller islands of the British Virgin Islands, south of Tortola and southwest of Virgin Gorda. These islands are also called the Southern Islands.
Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands is the main town on the island of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands. According to the 2000 census, Cruz Bay had a population of 2,743.
The area code (340) is the local telephone area code of U.S. Virgin Islands. The (340) area code was created during a split from the original (809) area code, which began permissive dialing on 1 June 1997 and ended 30 June 1998.
Area code 284 is the local telephone area code of the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The 284 area code was created during a split from the original (809) area code which began permissive dialing on 1 October 1997 and ended 30 September 1998.
Sports and Fitness Center is an indoor sporting arena located in Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands. The capacity of the arena is 3,500 people and is home to the University of the Virgin Islands Buccaneers. It hosts the United States Virgin Islands Paradise Jam, a pre-season college basketball tournament.
The Copper Mine on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands, is a national park containing the ruins of an abandoned 19th-century copper mine.
Fort George is a colonial fort which was erected on the northeast edge of Road Town, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands above Baugher's Bay. The site is now a ruin.
Wickams Cay and Little Wickam's Cay were former islands of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. They were both located in Road Harbour, but due to reclamation of land projects in Tortola, Wickhams Cay now makes up part of Road Town, the capital of the British Virgin Islands. The areas are known as Wickhams Cay and Wickhams Cay II. Also included in the same reclamation projects were former islands known as Bird Cay and Dead Horse Cay.
Little Cay is an island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
Dog Islands are a small group of islets among the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
Mount Healthy windmill is a ruined windmill on the north side of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. It was formerly used during the plantation era of the Territory to crush sugar cane. After the collapse of the sugar economy in the early nineteenth century the windmill fell into disuse and became a ruin. It crushed cane for the sugar mill and rum distillery in nearby Brewer's Bay.
The U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam is a college basketball tournament that takes place in late November of each year, with the men usually playing the week before Thanksgiving and the women playing Thanksgiving week. It normally takes place in St. Thomas at the Sports and Fitness Center on the campus of the University of the Virgin Islands.
Annaberg is a former sugar factory and plantation on the island of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands. It is uninhabited and part of the Annaberg Historic District within the Virgin Islands National Park.
Fish Bay is a bay and neighborhood on the island of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands. Most of this area is part of Virgin Islands National Park.
Mount Pleasant is an area of Virgin Islands National Park on the island of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands. It is located between Maho Bay and Centerline Road. This area is uninhabited and its name has fallen out of use.
Emancipation Garden is a park in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
C.A.H.S. Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands. Stadium is owned by the Charlotte Amalie High School (C.A.H.S.). It is currently used mostly for soccer matches and athletics competitions.
