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Virgin Island Real Estate: Mainsail British Virgin Islands Real Estate
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The British Virgin Islands are a group of over 50 islands located in the Leeward Islands, about 65 miles from Puerto Rico and 10 miles east of the US Virgin Islands. Easy acess to BVI can be made by connecting through San Juan P.R. ....on all major airlines. Several airlines fly to Beef Island BVI and departures are usually every 30-45 minutes.
Christopher Colombus came across the Virgin Islands on his second voyage to the "New World" in 1493. The islands went untouched for the next 100 years until they were discovered by pirates and privateers of the 17th century. The BVI shores were home to Black Beard, Norman and Jost Van Dyke who have islands named after these legendary characters.
In the mid century the European settlers arrived and it was actually a hardy group of Dutchmen who are believed to have constructed a Fort, on Tortola. In 1672, the islands were made up of mostly British settlers and was therefore annexed by Britain and administered by the Government of the Leeward Islands.In 1834, the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies, a hurricane and a series of bad ecomonic years put an end to the plantation system in the BVI.
