Tortola ə is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. Local tradition recounts that Christopher Columbus named it Tortola, meaning `land of the Turtle Dove`. Columbus named the island Santa Ana. The later Dutch settled and called it Ter Tholen, afte.....
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largest of the British Virgin Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles chain, which separates the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Its name is from the ... [2 related articles]
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