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The United States took possession of the islands on March 31, 1917, and the territory was renamed the Virgin Islands of the United States. [27] [29] Every year, Transfer Day is recognized as a holiday, to commemorate the acquisition of the islands by the United States. [30] Rear Admiral James H. Oliver was the first American governor of the ...
FIPS state codes were numeric and two-letter alphabetic codes defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard Publication ("FIPS PUB") 5-2 to identify U.S. states and certain other associated areas. The standard superseded FIPS PUB 5-1 on May 28, 1987, and was superseded on September 2, 2008, by ANSI standard INCITS 38:2009.
Saint Croix (/ krɔɪ / KROY; Spanish: Santa Cruz; Dutch: Sint-Kruis; French: Sainte-Croix; Danish and Norwegian: Sankt Croix; Taino: Ay Ay) 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.
The British Virgin Islands comprise around 60 tropical Caribbean islands, ranging in size from the largest, Tortola, being 20 km (12 mi) long and 5 km (3 mi) wide, to tiny uninhabited islets, altogether about 150 square kilometres (58 square miles) in extent. They are located in the Virgin Islands archipelago, a few miles east of the US Virgin ...
Coral Bay, Saint John; map from 1720 Map of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Saint John (Danish: Sankt Jan; Spanish: San Juan) 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 United States Virgin Islands are a group of around 90 islands, islets, and cays in the Caribbean region in which inhabitants were claimed by Spain in 1493. [1][2] No permanent settlements occurred in the Spanish period and the islands were colonized by Denmark in 1671. [2][3] The inhabitants remained Danish nationals until 1917.
The locations of the US and UK Virgin Islands Rigobert Bonne: Map of the Virgin Islands, 1780. Christopher Columbus named the islands after Saint Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins (Spanish: Santa Úrsula y las Once Mil Vírgenes), shortened to the Virgins (las Vírgenes). The official name of the British territory is the Virgin Islands, and the ...