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While a Danish possession, the islands were divided into "quarters" (five on St. John and nine on St. Croix), which were further divided into many dozens of "estates". Estate names are still used to write addresses; estates and quarters are used in describing real estate, especially on St. John [77] and St. Croix. [78]
Real estate in the British Virgin Islands is subject to nominal taxation. [13] Because the amounts payable are so small, it is not uncommon for householders to not pay the tax at all, and then discharge all back taxes and penalties when they come to sell their property. The total tax on residential properties rarely exceeds US$100 per annum.
The territorial government of the United States Virgin Islands has for operational purposes established two districts, which include the minor islets nearest to the major islands: [ 1][ 2][ 3] Saint Croix. Saint Thomas and Saint John. The U.S. Virgin Islands legislature has 15 seats: 7 seats are for the Saint Croix District, 7 seats are for the ...
The British Virgin Islands comprise around 60 tropical Caribbean islands, ranging in size from the largest, Tortola, being 20 km (12 mi) long and 5 km (3 mi) wide, to tiny uninhabited islets, altogether about 150 square kilometres (58 square miles) in extent. They are located in the Virgin Islands archipelago, a few miles east of the US Virgin ...
Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands. / 18.333°N 64.733°W / 18.333; -64.733. Saint John ( Danish: Sankt Jan; Spanish: San Juan) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. Saint John (50 km 2 (19 sq mi)) is the ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in the United States Virgin Islands on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea.They are geologically and biogeographically the easternmost part of the Greater Antilles, [1] While the British Virgin Islands are officially designated as “The Virgin Islands”, the name is most often used to refer to the entire international grouping of the British and United States Virgin Islands ...
List of settlements and estates in the United States Virgin Islands, sorted by island. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( August 2008 )