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A United States Air Force interceptor aircraft at Thule Air Base, 1958. A scholar wrote in 1950 that, despite official denials of the rumors of an American purchase, because of Greenland's large expense to Denmark and strategic importance, "the potential sale of the island to the United States remains a distinct possibility". [81]
On the eve of the American Civil War, the United States became interested in the islands as the possible location of a Caribbean naval base. After the war ended, 24 October 1867, the Danish parliament, the Rigsdag, ratified a treaty on the sale of two of the islands — St. Thomas and St. John — for a sum of US$7,500,000.
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A referendum on the sale of the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States of America was held in Denmark on 14 December 1916. [1] The non-binding referendum saw 283,670 vote in favor of the sale of the Danish West Indian Islands and 158,157 against.
A private island with a summer cottage in Finnish Lakeland, Finland. A private island is a disconnected body of land wholly owned by a private citizen or corporation.Although this exclusivity gives the owner substantial control over the property, private islands remain under the jurisdiction of national and sometimes local governments.
The islands were eventually sold to the United States for $25 million ($594,550,000 in 2025) which took over the administration on 31 March 1917 and renamed the territory the United States Virgin Islands. Danish Blue Ensign flag of Danish West Indies. Danish White Ensign flag of Danish West Indies. Unofficial Flag of the Danish West Indies.
Greenland is not for sale, Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen said on Monday, after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week that President Donald Trump's interest in acquiring the ...
Map of Little Saint James. Little Saint James is a small island (or islet) [3] with an area of 70 to 78 acres (28 to 32 ha). It is in the United States Virgin Islands, [1] located southeast of neighboring Great Saint James, both off the southern coast of the larger St. Thomas island [4] [5] and belonging to the subdistrict East End, St. Thomas.