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Cooper Island is a small island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. It is one of the "Little Sisters" islands. There are five privately owned properties on the island, plus a small beach club resort. Cooper Island Beach Club has 8 hotel rooms, a restaurant, rum bar, coffee shop, solar powered brewery, and gift shop. Facilities are ...
Cooper Bay ruin is a ruin in Cooper Bay, on the north side of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.The ruin dates from the sugar plantation era, and was presumed abandoned during the economic collapse of the British Virgin Islands during the mid-19th century.
The Copper Mine is a protected site and tourist attraction. However, it is in a perilous state, and sits in a position which is particularly exposed to hurricanes.. The Copper Mine Committee, in cooperation with the National Parks Trust of the British Virgin Islands, has undertaken to reconstruct the site using the footprint of the buildings and plans developed by archaeologists familiar with ...
The Little Sisters is an informal name for a group of some of the smaller islands of the British Virgin Islands, south of Tortola and southwest of Virgin Gorda. These islands are also called the Southern Islands. Norman Island; Pelican Island; Peter Island; Salt Island; Cooper Island; Ginger Island; Carvel Rock; Dead Chest Island
The history of the British Virgin Islands is usually, for convenience, broken up into five separate periods: Pre-Columbian Amerindian settlement, up to an uncertain date; Nascent European settlement, from approximately 1612 until 1672; British control, from 1672 until 1834; Emancipation, from 1834 until 1950; The modern state, from 1950 to ...
Josiah Lilly IV, right, holds onto a shovel that his father, Josiah Lilly III, and mother Josephine Lilly used during the groundbreaking for Heritage Museums & Gardens 66 years ago.
The present-day Administrative Districts of the British Virgin Islands were established since 2003, following the provisions of the Sister Islands Programme, 2003. [1] Tortola, the surrounding islets, and the Little Sisters/Southern Islands are directly administered by the BVI Government, as an "Island".
Cooper Island may refer to: Cooper Island (South Georgia), an island and Special Protection Area off the southeast end of South Georgia. Cooper Island (British Virgin Islands) Cooper Island (New Zealand) Cooper Island (Palmyra Atoll) Cooper Islands, Alaska, US; Cooper's Island, Bermuda