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Lesser Antilles The islands called windward are those ranging south from Dominica to Grenada; those that arc generally westerly from Guadeloupe to the Virgin Islands are the leeward group. The Lesser Antilles begin east and south of the Virgin Islands and are composed of a double arc of small islands. The Lesser Antilles have experienced a common demographic history: decimation of the Amerindian population by the Spanish led to the introduction of African slaves to cultivate the sugar and coffee plantations of the European settlers during the 17th and 18th centuries. www.amyglenn.com /Geography/lesser.htm   (1650 words)

InfoHub Forums - Seabourn Sea Goddess I: Virgin Islands The British Virgin Islands are a Territory of the British Commonwealth. The British Virgin Islands have some of the finest resorts in the Caribbean sea, and are perhaps the most popular boating and yachting destination. Snobs' jaws drop and eyes open wide when I suddenly began to speak French with a family from France aboard the ship, and later German with the hoards of tourists from Germany on the British Virgin Islands. www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=2114   (1650 words)

Congresswoman Donna Christian-Christensen - Virgin Islands - History and Geography The U.S. Virgin Islands is comprised of 68 islands and cays located in the Caribbean Basin 1,075 miles east-southeast of Miami, and 50 miles east of Puerto Rico. The direction of settlement was indicated by Spanish neglect to colonize the smaller islands of the lesser Antilles in favor of the Greater Antilles. The Virgin Islands were discovered by Christopher Columbus in November, 1493, on his second voyage to the new world. www.house.gov /christian-christensen/vi_history.htm   (706 words)

Virgin Islands News TORTOLA - The British Virgin Islands is being used as a model by Vieques as the Spanish-speaking neighbor forges ahead with plans to further develop its small island economy. A new old town is emerging in the Virgin Islands as Frederiksted continues a metamorphosis that could make it the showplace of the territory. Virgin Islands News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. www.topix.net /world/virgin-islands   (537 words)

Congresswoman Donna Christian-Christensen - Virgin Islands - History and Geography The U.S. Virgin Islands is comprised of 68 islands and cays located in the Caribbean Basin 1,075 miles east-southeast of Miami, and 50 miles east of Puerto Rico. The direction of settlement was indicated by Spanish neglect to colonize the smaller islands of the lesser Antilles in favor of the Greater Antilles. The Virgin Islands were discovered by Christopher Columbus in November, 1493, on his second voyage to the new world. www.house.gov /christian-christensen/vi_history.htm   (706 words)

Virgin Islands Language Spanish is spoken in the Virgin Islands by immigrants of Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo. Virgin Islands Creole English is described by some linguist as a transitional language, a bridge between Dutch Creole and standard English. The US Virgin Islands became a United States territory and official English speaking region in 1917. www.vinow.com /general_usvi/culture/language.php   (1156 words)

Virgin Islands - Wikitravel The Virgin Islands is a Caribbean island territory of the United States of America between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico. Together with the British Virgin Islands, to the northeast, the territory forms the Virgin Islands archipelago. The islands natural resources are sun, sand, sea, and surf. wikitravel.org /en/Virgin_Islands   (919 words)

museumnotes.shtml Hundreds of French planters, from the islands of Guadalupe and Martinique, moved to Vieques, with permission from the Spanish government, early in the nineteenth century. Navy control of 2/3 of the island's natural resources and several attempts by the military to take over all of Vieques, contribute to the socio-economic crisis that plagues the Island to this day. The silkscreens on the final panels of this room are from the annual Indigenous Festival held in the town of Jayuya in the central mountain range of Puerto Rico. www.vieques-island.com /museumnotes.shtml   (774 words)

South Atlantic Regional Humanities Center: South Atlantic Region: History, Culture, Identity In the Virgin Islands creole Dutch marked a similar cultural compromise between African roots and European dominance. Once these imperial powers colonized the islands and coastlines of the South Atlantic, settlers displaced indigenous peoples and interactions between the descendants of Europeans and Africans added new cultural complexities t colonial encounters on the frontiers of empire. Connected by constant commerce and cultural exchange to these tropical islands, the colonies of the Lower South came into the orbit of Caribbean concerns economically, strategically and culturally. www.cofc.edu /~elainem/sites/humanities_center/saregion/saregion.html   (2557 words)

United States Virgin Islands Vacation Rentals Two-thirds of this island, though, is preserved by the Virgin Islands National Park. Thomas is the most bustling out of these three Virgin Islands with its busiest port, Charlotte Amalie - the capital of the Virgin Islands named after the wife of King Christian V in 1691 - filled with cruise ships and shops galore. Over the years, these islands have been under control of many different nations including the English, French, Spanish, Knights of Malta, Danish, and currently the United States of America. www.beachhouse.com /travelogue/United-States-Virgin-Islands-Vacation-Rentals.htm   (663 words)

Virgin Gorda--The Baths--in the British Virgin Islands from The Baths is the Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour, sea entrance to Spanish Town (the original capital of the BVI), now often called "The Valley," a Caribbean village whose hub is the Yacht Harbour (email 495-5500), a marina with docking for 110 vessels. Virgin Gorda has the effervescent purity and simplicity of what is basically a pastoral land. Virgin Gorda's Beach Coast now has its own page here. www.b-v-i.com /baths.htm   (2494 words)

U.S. Virgin Islands map and information page by World Atlas Steeped in maritime history, and the remnants of the Danish, Dutch, English, French and Spanish cultures, the Virgin Islands are one of the busiest cruise and vacations destinations in the Caribbean. Tourism is the major business, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are closely associated with the economy and culture of the British Virgin Islands. Named by Christopher Columbus in 1493, the Virgin Islands are famed for white-sand beaches, crystal-blue waters and idyllic sailing venues. www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/namerica/caribb/vi.htm   (2494 words)

History of the United States Virgin Islands Columbus named the beautiful islands 'The Virgins' in reference to the legendary beauty of St. Ursula and her 11,000 virgins. It is believed that Spanish settlers on nearby Puerto Rico raided the islands on a regular basis. The islands and its residents fell on rough times in the late 1800s due to the poor economy and numerous natural disasters. www.vinow.com /general_usvi/history/index.php   (1075 words)

Getting to the British Virgin Islands There are no direct flights to the British Virgin Islands from USA, Canada or Europe; however the British Virgin Islands's can be reached from San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU), St. Thomas, USVI (STT), Antigua (ANU), St. Maarten, and Barbados. Once on Beef Island, the North Sound Express Ferry will bring you to Virgin Gorda's Spanish Town or Leverick Bay, a 30-45 minute ferry ride. From Puerto Rico to Beef Island, Tortola to Virgin Gorda: occasionsbvi.com /getting_here.html   (289 words)

Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. Although the U.S. Virgin Islands remain under the U.S. flag, the islands are an unincorporated territory with a non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives. This company placed no national restrictions on colonists and soon attracted Spanish Sephardic Jews, Huguenots, and English settlers, the last of which came to dominate the Island. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Croix   (1350 words)

Manuel Barbera, Corpus based computational linguistic resources. Languages: J-R (§ 3.4). A collection of small freely downloadable historical fragments and witnwesses of Caribbean (Leewards Islands) English creole of Antigua (1788, 1810, 1825, 1834, 1850), of Nevis (1802, 1825), of Montserrat (1825) and of St. Kitts (1708, 1718, 1802, 1834), from the Creolist Archives Text Collections. The sample recording can be considered representative of informal Palenquero speech, especially that of Palenqueros who have full command of both Spanish and "lengua" (= name given by Palenqueros to their local creole speech). The Corpus of Written British Creole is very small in corpus linguistic terms (around 12,000 words), but was projected, selected and tagged (with CLAWS4) with great care. www.bmanuel.org /clr3_jr.html   (8502 words)

British Virgin Islands There are literally hundreds of anchorages in the Virgin Islands and limitless varations on this sample itinerary. The base in Tortola is your gateway to the more than sixty islands and cays that make up the british virgin islands. The base at Hodjes Creek Marina in Maya Cove is the finest marina facility in the British Virgin islands. www.sailingparadise.com /brvirginisl.html   (8502 words)

Experience The British Virgin Islands The Virgin Islands' peaks made such an impression on Columbus in 1493 that he named them Las Once Mil Virgenes, after the legendary 11,000 virgins who St. Ursula (a British princess) was supposed to have led to their martyrdom near Cologne in Germany. The next most populous islands are Virgin Gorda (8.5 square miles), Anegada (15.2 square miles), Jost Van Dyke (3.2 square miles), Peter Island, Marina Cay and Guana Island, They are all hilly and of volcanic origin, except for Anegada, the most northerly, which is low lying and of coral origins. The islands' lack of level land made them unattractive for agriculture, but during the 16th and 17th centuries, adventurers and pirates emerged from the numerous sheltered bays and coves to attack Spanish merchant ships carrying gold to Europe. www.experiencebvi.com /aboutbvis/history.htm   (2329 words)

English The island of Trinidad was captured from the Spanish in 1797. The National Curriculum was introduced, which forced schools to teach certain subjects, as opposed to the choice of subjects being up to the school as had previously been the case. As a further incentive to teams to avoid the comfort zone of mid-table mediocrity, play-offs have been instituted for teams from Divisions 1, 2, and 3 finishing within 4 positions of the automatic qualifiers in their respective divisions. www.websters-online-dictionary.net /definition/english...   (14524 words)

English The island of Trinidad was captured from the Spanish in 1797. Barbados - The island was settled in 1625. Montserrat - The island was settled in 1632. www.websters-online-dictionary.net /definition/english...   (14524 words)

01 Jul History: This Date US General William R. Shafter hoped to capture El Caney before besieging the fortified heights of San Juan Hill, but the five-hundred Spanish defenders of the village put up a fierce resistance and held off ten times their number for the rest of the day. On 23 March 1901, US General Frederick Funston and a group of officers, pretending to be prisoners, surprised Aguinaldo in his stronghold in the Luzon village of Palanan and captured the rebel leader. The US authorities drag their feet about admitting to the “mistake”, but eventually are forced to do so, bit by bit, not before antagonizing a large portion of the Afghan population, previously friendly. www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4jul/h4jul01.html   (11824 words)

Island Music of the British Virgin Islands "Soca music is the music of the Caribbean Islands and is deeply rooted in African and Spanish origins. JAMZ at 105.3 FM is a cutting-edge (18-34) music station with an uptempo urban sound. Fungi is a kind of musical group and style unique to the BVI--basically a home-grown jam session or "scratch" band with assorted homemade instruments such washboards, gourds, etc. www.b-v-i.com /Culture/music.htm   (766 words)

St.John Tourist Information, St.John Vacation, St.John Business, St.John Tourist Guide, Beaches, Water sports, travel Emigrants from other islands have brought other languages to the Virgin Islands therefore it is not uncommon to hear Spanish, French-Patois and Creole. In the Virgin Islands saying Good Morning, Good Afternoon and Good Night are not the same thing as saying Hello or Hi; the former is a warmer greeting and is the norm for friends and strangers. Music in the Virgin Islands is definitely Caribbean. tourism.virginislandsdailynews.com /culturestjohn.html   (428 words)

History of the United States Virgin Islands The islands remained under Danish rule until 1917, when the United States purchased them for $25 million in gold in an effort to improve military positioning during critical times of World War I. St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John became the US Virgin Islands. While piracy ceased to be a factor in the island's economy in the early 1800s, the slave trade continued. It is believed that Spanish settlers on nearby Puerto Rico raided the islands on a regular basis. www.vinow.com /general_usvi/history/index.php   (428 words)

St. Croix U.S. Virgin Islands - Churches Throughout Christiansted and Frederiksted, the island's two waterfront towns, distinctly European 18th-century architecture reflects a period in history when seven flags - Spanish, Dutch, British, French, Knights of Malta, Danish and American - flew at different times over the island. Nearby, Christiansted's Steeple Building - the first church constructed by the Danes after their colonization of the island - is now a museum housing artifacts from St. Croix's Carib and Arawak Indian settlements and colonial sugar plantations. Standing sentry off of Christiansted Harbor and the Caribbean Sea is Fort Christiansvaern, an imposing, yellow-brick marvel built by Danes to ward off pirates an imprison those who were caught plundering the island's ports. www.usvi.net /usvi/churches.html   (231 words)

U.S. Virgin Islands All goods made in the Virgin Islands qualify for duty-free entry into the United States. The Virgin Islands, consisting of nine main islands and some 75 islets, were explored by Columbus in 1493. In 1917, these islands were purchased by the U.S. from Denmark for $25 million. www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0113951.html   (329 words)

United States Virgin Islands The Virgin Islands remained a Spanish possession throughout the 16th century. The United States Marine Corps maintains an air base on Saint Thomas and an airfield on Saint Croix. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Virgin Islands flourished as a center for the slave trade and as a producer of sugar. studentorgs.utexas.edu /csaut/usvirgin.html   (329 words)

British Virgin Islands History Centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in the British Virgin Islands, the area was inhabited by South American tribes migrating up the West Indies. When Christopher Columbus sailed into the waters of the British Virgin Islands in October of 1493, the way of life for both of these tribes quickly diminished. Over the next few centuries, control of these islands slipped from the Spanish, Dutch and English. www.mariah.com /history.html   (330 words)

History of the British Virgin Islands: Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada. History of the British Virgin Islands: Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada. Thankfully, the islands remain a charming and quiet destination, unspoiled by overdevelopment the likes of which has taken place on the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands. The islands became a favored hangout of famous scoundrels such as Blackbeard, Bluebeard and Sir Francis Drake. www.wiol.com /bvi/history.html   (363 words)

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