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Camille Pissarro, A Creek in St. Thomas (Virgin Islands), 1856, National Gallery of Art. Pissarro was born on St. Thomas. The first British invasion and occupation of the island occurred in 1801. The islands were returned to Denmark in 1802, under the terms of the Treaty of Amiens. Fire destroyed hundreds of homes in Charlotte Amalie in 1804.
Charlotte Amalie Harbor Seaplane Base (IATA: SPB, FAA LID: VI22), also known as St. Thomas Seaplane Base, is located in the harbor by Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. This private-use airport is owned by the Virgin Islands Port Authority. [1]
Within Charlotte Amalie West is one of the two airports in the US Virgin Islands, the Crown Bay cargo container port and cruise port, the VITRAN (Virgin Island Public Transit) bus depot, ferry docks for surrounding islands, and Randolph Harley Power Plant operated by the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) for the St. Thomas-St ...
The Creque Marine Railway, formerly the "St Thomas Marine Repair Facility", is an inclined-plane ship railway on Hassel Island, in the bay of Charlotte Amalie off the coast of St. Thomas Island, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its site is below Fort Shipley, within Virgin Islands National Park.
Map of the United States Virgin Islands. This is a list of the buildings, sites, districts, and objects listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States Virgin Islands. There are currently 91 listed sites spread across 16 of the 20 subdistricts within three islands/districts of the United States Virgin Islands.
Havensight on Saint Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands is a community and the busiest cruise port in the world. [1] It is located in the Southside census subdistrict (CSD), 1.5 miles from the territorial capital of Charlotte Amalie in Charlotte Amalie East. [2]
Hassel Island (also sometimes Hassell Island) is a small island of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a United States territory located in the Caribbean Sea.Hassel Island lies in the Charlotte Amalie harbor just south of Saint Thomas and east of Water Island, with which it is part of the sub-district of Water Island.
In March 1866, Netley railway station was opened, with it linking the village to Southampton. In 1900 a branch was added to take the line right into the heart of the Royal Victoria Hospital, allowing injured troops to disembark at Southampton Docks and get a direct train to the hospital - the pier at the hospital could not accommodate large ...