Pearl, United States Virgin Islands | |
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Village | |
| Country |  United States Virgin Islands |
| Island | Saint Croix |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
Pearl is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Pearl, United States Virgin Islands | |
|---|---|
Village | |
| Country | United States Virgin Islands |
| Island | Saint Croix |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
Pearl is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Peatl is a former sugar plantation. It was for a while owned by the Danish industrialist Holger Petersen. He also owned theplantations Castle Cockley and Cassavagarden . [1]
The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles to the east of Puerto Rico and west of the British Virgin Islands.
Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Saint Thomas is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, one of the three largest of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. Along with surrounding minor islands, it is one of three county-equivalents in the USVI. Together with Saint John, it forms one of the districts of the USVI. The territorial capital and port of Charlotte Amalie is located on the island. As of the 2020 census, the population of Saint Thomas was 42,261, about 48.5% of the total population of the United States Virgin Islands. The island has a land area of 32 square miles (83 km2).
The flag of the United States Virgin Islands was adopted on May 17, 1921. It consists of a simplified version of the coat of arms of the United States between the letters V and I. The yellow-colored eagle holds a sprig of laurel in one talon, which symbolizes victory, and three blue arrows in the other, which represent the three major islands that make up the U.S. Virgin Islands: Saint Croix, Saint Thomas, and Saint John. When the Virgin Islands were owned by Denmark, the flag was a blue ensign with the Danish flag, or Dannebrog, in the canton.
Saint John is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.
The Brandenburg colony of St. Thomas consisted of a leased part of the Danish island of St. Thomas to the Brandenburg-Prussia margraviate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1685 to 1754.
Estate Catherineberg is a historic mansion on Denmark Hill in Charlotte Amalie, on Saint Thomas island, in the territory of the United States Virgin Islands.
Castle Coakley is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Hogensborg is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
La Grange is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
La Reine is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Libanon Hill is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Montpellier is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Peters Rest is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. The settlement originally formed around a sugar plantation.
Sprat Hall Beach is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Whim is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
The Treaty of the Danish West Indies, officially the Convention between the United States and Denmark for cession of the Danish West Indies, was a 1916 treaty transferring sovereignty of the Virgin Islands in the Danish West Indies from Denmark to the United States in exchange for a sum of US$25,000,000 in gold. It is one of the most recent permanent expansions of United States territory.
The Creque Marine Railway, formerly the "St Thomas Marine Repair Facility", is an inclined-plane ship railway on Hassel Island, in the bay of Charlotte Amalie off the coast of St. Thomas Island, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its site is below Fort Shipley, within Virgin Islands National Park.
Slob Historic District, near Christiansted, Virgin Islands, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The listing included nine contributing buildings, three contributing structures, and a contributing site on 9 acres (3.6 ha).
Holger Petersen was a Danish businessman and philanthropist.
Coordinates: 17°42′59″N64°44′02″W / 17.71639°N 64.73389°W
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