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Saint John's nickname is Love City. [6] Since 1956, approximately 60% of the island is protected as Virgin Islands National Park, administered by the United States National Park Service. [7] The economy is based predominantly on tourism and related trade. [8] Saint John is 50.8 km 2 (19.6 sq mi) in area with a population of 3,881 (2020 census). [5]
St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. The city spans 446.04 km 2 (172.22 sq mi) and is the easternmost city in North America (excluding Greenland).
St. John's was laid out following the French invasion of 1666, due to the site's strategic location on St. John's Harbour. [3] An act was passed to build a town on the harbour in April 1668. [ 4 ] On 16 September 1675, a sitting of the island’s legislature in Old Road established six places of trade, one of which being St. John’s.
Get the Saint John Island, Saint John Island local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
St John's Island has a land area of 41.23 km 2 (15.92 sq mi) and is located in the Strait of Singapore, about 6.5 km from the southern coast of mainland Singapore ...
Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands is the main census-designated place (CDP) on the island of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands. It is the fourth largest town or census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. Virgin Islands (after Charlotte Amalie, Anna's Retreat, and Charlotte Amalie West). According to the 2020 census, Cruz Bay had a ...
Gibney Beach in 1998. Gibney Beach, or Oppenheimer Beach, is a beach on Hawksnest Bay on northern Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands.The beach's names originate from Nancy Flagg Gibney and J. Robert Oppenheimer and their families, the owners of the beach in the mid-20th century.
The Virgin Islands National Park is a national park of the United States preserving about 60% of the land area of Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as more than 5,500 acres (2,226 ha; 9 sq mi) of adjacent ocean, and nearly all of Hassel Island, just off the Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas harbor.