List of minor islands of the United States Virgin Islands
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United States Virgin Islands The United States Virgin Islands,. Also called the ''American Virgin Islands'' and the ''U.S. Virgin Islands''. officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory ...
is an unincorporated territory of the
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that comprises a group of
island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
s in the Caribbean. In addition to the main residential islands of Saint Thomas,
Saint Croix Saint Croix; nl, Sint-Kruis; french: link=no, Sainte-Croix; Danish and no, Sankt Croix, Taino: ''Ay Ay'' ( ) is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincor ...
, Saint John, and Water Island, there are roughly 50 other islands and cays. These include:


Saint Croix

* Buck Island ( National Park) * Green Cay National Wildlife Refuge * Protestant Cay * Ruth Island


East End, Saint Thomas

* Cas Cay * Dog Island * Great Saint James * Little Saint James * Shark Island * Thatch Cay


West End, Saint Thomas

* Kalkun Cay * Savana Island


Northside, Saint Thomas

* Hans Lollik Islands * Inner Brass * Outer Brass


Southside, Saint Thomas

* Buck Island * Capella Island *
Hassel Island Hassel Island (also sometimes Hassell Island) is a small island of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a United States territory located in the Caribbean Sea. Hassel Island lies in the Charlotte Amalie harbor just south of Saint Thomas and east of Wate ...
( National Park) * Saba Island * Turtledove Cay


Central, Saint John

* Carvel Rock * Congo Cay * Grass Cay * Lovango Cay * Mingo Cay * Steven Cay


Northside, Saint John

*
Cinnamon Cay Cinnamon Cay is a cay in the United States Virgin Islands, situated approximately 0.7 miles east of Trunk Cay in the Cinnamon Bay, and 100 yards from the shore at Cinnamon Bay Beach on Saint John island. It has a height of 32 feet. The islet is ...
* Henley Cay * Ramgoat Cay * Trunk Cay *
Waterlemon Cay Waterlemon Cay is a small cay surrounded by a fringing reef located in Leinster Bay on Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands. It is named after the water lemon. The cay is surrounded by a fringing reef, and is considered to be one of the best snorkel ...
* Whistling Cay


East End, Saint John

*
Flanagan Island Flanagan Island (sometimes referred to in older charts as Witch Island) is an island located within the Virgin Islands archipelago in the Caribbean and forms part of the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is located just off of the eastern end of St. John ...
* Leduck Island


See also

*
Islands of the United States Virgin Islands Almost all of the Caribbean islands are in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes. The largest island is Cuba. Other sizable islands include Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago. Some of the smaller islands are re ...
*
Danish West Indies The Danish West Indies ( da, Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Antilles or Danish Virgin Islands were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with ; Saint John ( da, St. Jan) with ; and Saint Croix with . The ...
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Danish colonization of the Americas Denmark and the former real union of Denmark–Norway had a colonial empire from the 17th through the 20th centuries, large portions of which were found in the Americas. Denmark and Norway in one form or another also maintained land claims in Gre ...


References

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Islands An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...