These are the class action of ended L islands & florida key in the Caribbean. It include Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke, Great Camanoe, Guana Island, Peter Island, Salt Island, Beef Island, Cooper Island, Ginger Island, Norman Island, and numerous more little islands which are then clustered as much as a Sir Francis Drake Channel.

Two or three of the islands come privately owned. Necker Island is owned by Sir Richard Branson and is now an exclusive holiday spot.

A United Nations Committee on Decolonization includes a British Virgin Islands on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.

History
A British Virgin Islands were sighted & known as by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage inside 1493. It were foremost settled around 1648 by the Dutch and were annexed by England soon after inside 1672. It were known as a "Virgin Islands" until "British" was added at a prevent of World War I after the United States had purchased the nearby Danish West Indies and renamed them when the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Geography
the British Virgin Islands come a collection of about Fifty little islands in the Caribbean, of which about Xvi come inhabited. It is placed two or three miles east of the U.S. Virgin Islands. A North Atlantic Ocean lies to a north of the islands, & the Caribbean Sea lies to the south.

A big islands of the class action come Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, & Jost Van Dyke. Road Town, the capital & big town, is placed in Tortola.

Economy
the economy of a British Virgin Islands is one of the extra prosperous ones of any of the Caribbean states, by having a GDP per capita of around $15,000.

A British Virgin Islands is extremely contingent tourism, which accounts for 45% of national income. the islands come a popular destination for U.S. citizens, using about 350,000 tourer camping annually (1997 figures). Tourer oftentimes return a many whiten sand beaches, visit The Baths in Virgin Gorda, snorkel the coral reefs near Anegada, own household budget a easily-known blocks in Jost Van Dyke, or even charter yachts to explore a less accessible islands.

Real revenues come as well generated per registration of offshore companies. When of 1997, 250,00Corporations were therefore registered.

A economy is closely linked thereupon of the big U.S. Virgin Islands to a west, & the islands' currency, since 1959, is the US dollar.

Transport
Existence the little class action of islands, transportation is limited. There are 113km of roads. A independent drome is placed in Beef Island, touching Tortola. Virgin Gorda & Anegada use their have little airdrome. A independent harbour is around Road Town.