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A map of the United States Virgin Islands. U.S. Virgin Islands - NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) Satellite Image. The United States Virgin Islands are a group of several dozen islands and cays located in the Caribbean, about 1,100 miles (1,770 km) southeast of Florida, 600 miles (966 km) north of Venezuela, 40 miles (64 km) east of Puerto Rico, and immediately west and south of the British ...
name = the U.S. Virgin Islands Name used in the default map caption; image = USA Virgin Islands location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 18.85 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 17.6 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -65.4 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal ...
The U.S. Virgin Islands legislature has 15 seats: 7 seats are for the Saint Croix District, 7 seats are for the Saint Thomas and Saint John District, and one seat is for someone who must live in Saint John. [2] The U.S. Virgin Islands have no municipalities; the only government is for the territory as a whole. [4]
The location of the United States Virgin Islands. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United States Virgin Islands: . United States Virgin Islands – unincorporated organized territory of the United States of America located in the western portion of the Virgin Islands Archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. [1]
As of 2019, the USVI courts apply both American common law [58] and the 2019 US Virgin Islands Code as passed by the territorial legislature. Because the USVI is not a state and Congress has not determined otherwise, the federal district court is an Article IV tribunal , subject to the authority of the United States secretary of the interior ...
Districts and subdistricts of the US Virgin Islands. In 1917, Saint Thomas was purchased (along with Saint Croix and Saint John) by the United States for $25 million in gold ($595 million today), [22] as part of a strategy to maintain control over the Caribbean and the Panama Canal during the First World War. The transfer occurred on March 31 ...
Its two miles (3 km) of sandy beaches on the southwest corner of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands is an ideal nesting place for leatherbacks. The National Wildlife Refuge is open to the public for limited hours on Saturdays and Sundays. The Aklis Archeological Site, a prehistoric shell midden on the coast, is in the refuge. The 4-acre (1.6 ha ...