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While the pier is the gateway to shopping in Frederiksted, taxis and tour buses take visitors to Christiansted for shopping, sightseeing, and on round-the-island tours. Elevation is 10 feet (3 meters) above sea level at the outermost point, with 3 foot (1 meter) high access platforms for entry onto scuba diving boats and sailing charters.
Frederiksted (Danish for "Frederik's Place") is both a town and one of the two administrative districts of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.It is a grid-planned city, designed by surveyor Jens Beckfor, originally to 14x14 blocks but built 7x7 to enhance the island commerce in the 1700s.
Salt River Canyon is a prehistoric river and waterfall having cut two deep walls facing each other across a quarter mile of blue water. The feature is one of the best known of St. Croix's dive features, along with the Frederiksted Pier. The most popular scuba diving locations are a few hundred yards outside the Salt River Bay.
John Gottliff (also known as Moses Gotlieb, General Bordeaux, or Buddhoe) had led 8,000 blacks in a freedom march to Frederiksted. At the time, there were 17,000 slaves and 5,000 free blacks on St. Croix. [5] The fort includes a museum and art gallery, it is open weekdays from 8:30am to 4pm, and Saturdays from 1pm to 4pm. Admission is $3 (2015).
Channel 15: WVIF - Independent - Christiansted, St. Croix (1999–2009) Channel 17: WVGI - Independent - Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas (1987–1995)
WCVI-TV (channel 23) is a television station serving the United States Virgin Islands that is licensed to Christiansted, Saint Croix, and affiliated with CBS and ABC. Owned by Lilly Broadcasting , the station maintains transmitter facilities on Estate Princess Hill.
The town was founded by Captain Frederik Moth after he was made governor of St. Croix in 1733. Departing from St. Thomas, Moth's party had cleared a space for Fort Christianswærn by 5 September. In a ceremony next to this fort on 8 January 1734, the French formally handed the island over to the Danes in the form of the Danish West India and ...
WSVI (channel 8) is a television station serving the United States Virgin Islands that is licensed to Christiansted, Saint Croix, and affiliated with Ion. It is owned by Atlas News and Information Services alongside Charlotte Amalie–licensed independent station WZVI (channel 21). The two stations share studios at the Sunny Isle Shopping ...