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Salt Island is one of the islands of the archipelago of the British Virgin Islands located about 4.7 miles south east (151 degrees true) of Road Town, the main town on Tortola. It is named after its salt ponds , which were once an important resource.
The R.M.S. Rhone is an old cargo vessel that wrecked in 1867 at a reef at Salt Island, greatestdivesites.com; RMS Rhone BVI 2000, wreck dive video at YouTube; RMS Rhone, Salt Island, British Virgin Islands, wreck dive video at YouTube; The Deep Filming Locations exactly where on RMS Rhone the 1977 movie The Deep was filmed.
The "Other Islands" are mainly the islands south of Tortola (separated from it by the Sir Francis Drake Channel and southwest of Virgin Gorda and detached Ginger Island, mainly Norman Island, Peter Island, Cooper Island and Salt Island. These islands are also known under the informal name Little Sisters or Southern Islands.
Salt Island - locator map among the British Virgin Islands: Date: 23 October 2016: Source: British Virgin Islands locator.svg: Author: Hogweard: Permission (Reusing ...
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. Norman Island; Pelican Island; Peter Island; Salt Island; Cooper Island; Ginger Island; Carvel Rock; Dead Chest Island
Tortola (/ t ɔːr ˈ t oʊ l ə /) is the largest and most populated island of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. [2] It has a surface area of 55.7 square kilometres (21.5 square miles) with a total population of 23,908, with 9,400 residents in Road Town .
The fort was named after William Mathew Burt, Governor of the Leeward Islands from 1776 to 1781 (but not to be confused with Colonel William Burt, his great grandfather, who took the Territory for the British from the Dutch with a token force at the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1672). Descendants of this family now live in Western ...
Sandy Cay is an uninhabited island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. It is located between Tortola and Jost Van Dyke. The island was owned by the Laurance Rockefeller Estate. On 1 May 2008, ownership of the island was transferred to the National Parks Trust of the Virgin Islands. [1]