Virgin Islands

The U.S. Virgin Islands is an unincorporated organized territory of the United States of America, east of Puerto Rico, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. It was formerly known as the Danish West Indies. Together with the British Virgin Islands, to the northeast, the territory forms the Virgin Islands archipelago.

Christopher Columbus named the islands Santa Ursula y las Once Mil Vírgenes (shortened to Las Vírgenes), after Saint Ursula and her 11,000 virgins. They   More...