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  2. British Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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    The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the United States dollar (US$) since 1959, the currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands. [3] The British Virgin Islands enjoys one of the more prosperous economies of the Caribbean region, with a per capita average income of around $47,000 (2022 est.) [47]

  3. Road Harbour - Wikipedia

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    Road Harbour, located in Road Town, Tortola, is the commercial seaport of the British Virgin Islands. There are a number of smaller marinas around the harbour, such as the Road Reef Marina and the Fort Burt Marina, an overnight small boat anchorage, customs and immigration offices. Inter island ferries stop at the ferry dock on the NW edge of ...

  4. Fort Recovery, Tortola - Wikipedia

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    The Fort was later abandoned when the Territory fell into decline after the British seized control of the islands in 1672. However, during the turbulent colonial era commencing with the American Revolutionary War and extending to the Napoleonic wars the fort was rebuilt in its current form.

  5. RMS Rhone - Wikipedia

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    RMS Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands on 29 October 1867 in a hurricane, killing 123 people. She is now a popular Caribbean wreck dive site. [4]

  6. History of the British Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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    England took control of the British Virgin Islands in 1672, at the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, and have retained influence since. The Dutch averred that in 1672 Willem Hunthum put Tortola under the protection of Colonel Sir William Stapleton , the English Governor-General of the Leeward Islands .

  7. Jost Van Dyke - Wikipedia

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    The location of Jost Van Dyke in the Virgin Island chain View overlooking White Bay, Jost Van Dyke, BVI. Jost Van Dyke (/ ˈ j oʊ s t v æ n ˈ d aɪ k /; [2] sometimes colloquially referred to as JVD or Jost) is the smallest of the four main islands of the British Virgin Islands, measuring roughly 8 square kilometres (3 square miles).

  8. Saba Rock - Wikipedia

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    Saba Rock is among the cluster of serene, scarcely inhabited Islands that form the North Sound of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. The North Sound neighbourhood consists of Richard Branson's exclusive Necker Island and the private Island of Eustatia with the surrounding pristine waters of Eustatia Reef, a snorkeler's paradise.

  9. File:British Virgin Islands - Location Map (2013) - VGB ...

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