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11 unusual facts about British Virgin Islands


ActionQuest

ActionQuest began running programs in the British Virgin Islands in the mid-1980s; however, its seafaring history extends back to the Flint School.

Aruba at the Pan American Games

As of the last Pan American Games in 2007, Aruba is one of two nations not to win a medal at the Pan American Games, the other countries being the British Virgin Islands.

British Virgin Islands

Cape Air, LIAT, BVI Airways and Air Sunshine are amongst the airlines offering scheduled service.

Private air charter services such as Fly BVI and Island Birds Air Charter fly directly to all three islands from any major airport.

Charlotte Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

With an area of 149 km², its size is comparable to that of the British Virgin Islands.

Dead Man's Chest

Stevenson found the name "Dead Man's Chest" among a list of Virgin Island names in a book by Charles Kingsley, possibly in reference to the Dead Chest Island in the British Virgin Islands.

Dead Man's Chest Island

Dead Chest Island, British Virgin Islands (also called Dead Man's Chest Island), in the British Virgin Islands

Joseph Oliver Bowers

In recognition and acknowledgement of his work in Ghana, when the diocese of St. John's-Basseterre in the West Indies was created in 1971 - comprising the islands of Antigua-Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands - Bowers was appointed its first bishop on January 16, 1971, becoming the chief pastor in Antigua.

Political status

#Internal independent countries which are under the protection of another country in matters of defense and foreign affairs, e.g.: Netherlands Antilles, the Faroe Islands, British Virgin Islands etc.

Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport

The airport is located on Beef Island, a small island off the main island of Tortola, to which it is connected by the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge.

WIVV

Licensed to Vieques, Puerto Rico, it serves part of Puerto Rico, large areas of the US Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and the Lesser Antilles.


British Virgin Islands general election, 1983

The result was a victory for the opposition United Party led by Cyril Romney over the opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) led by former Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt.

Caribbean Broadcast Network

The Caribbean Broadcast Network (CBN) is the local television station for Road Town, and the rest of the British Virgin Islands.

Erroll Fraser

Erroll Canute Fraser (July 30, 1950 – December 24, 2002) was an ice speed skater from the British Virgin Islands, who represented his native country in at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia at the age of 33.

Great Camanoe

Great Camanoe is a small island located just north of Beef Island and northeast of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which forms part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

Islanders FC

Islanders FC is a British Virgin Islands football club based in Tortola, competing in the BVIFA National League, the top tier of British Virgin Islands football.

John C. Lettsome

He was born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, into one of the early Quaker settlements in the territory, and he grew up to be an abolitionist.

Jost Van Dyke

At roughly 8 square kilometers, and about 3 square miles Jost Van Dyke is the smallest of the four main islands of the British Virgin Islands, the northern portion of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

Michael Riegels

Michael Riegels, QC was the inaugural chairman of the Financial Services Commission of the British Virgin Islands.

Necker Island

Necker Island (British Virgin Islands), a private island in the British Virgin Islands owned by Sir Richard Branson.

Red Hook, United States Virgin Islands

Ferry service is provided from Red Hook to Cruz Bay on St. John USVI, Charlotte Amalie St. Thomas and to the British Virgin Islands.

Richard Stromback

In March 2008, he served as co-host of the Ecology Summit with Sir Richard Branson on Necker Island.

Salt Island, British Virgin Islands

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.

Spanish Town, British Virgin Islands

Spanish Town on southern Virgin Gorda is the second largest town (after Road Town) on the British Virgin Islands.

Sugar Boys

Sugar Boys is a British Virgin Islands football club based in Virgin Gorda, competing in the BVIFA Football League, the top tier of British Virgin Islands football.

Trevor Peters

Trevor Deshawn Peters (born 19 March 1990) is an international footballer for the British Virgin Islands who plays as a striker for Virgin Gorda Ballstars and Cloud County Community College in Kansas.

He made his debut for the British Virgin Islands in an October 2010 17–0 defeat to the Dominican Republic.

Virgin Hotels

The British-based Virgin Hotels Group Limited owns the Virgin Limited Edition portfolio of properties that include luxury resorts such as Necker Island.

Yanik Silver

The club has scuba dived off Iceland's Silfra Ravine, been off-road racing with Jesse James, annually spend a week at Richard Branson's Necker Island, had simulation dogfights in Word War II-era planes, and featured sessions with Tony Hawk, John Paul DeJoria, James, and Branson.