Beef Island
Beef Island is an island in the British Virgin Islands. It is located to the east of Tortola, and the two islands are connected by the Queen Elizabeth Bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Legis, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport and Bellamy Cay.
Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport, previously known as Beef Island Airport, is the main airport serving the British Virgin Islands, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean.
Bellamy Cay
Islet
Bellamy Cay is an island in the British Virgin Islands, located entirely within Trellis Bay on Beef Island. Formerly called Blanco Islet, this island is named after its most famous resident, Samuel Bellamy.
Little Camanoe
Islet
Little Camanoe is an uninhabited island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. The island provides habitat for the common Puerto Rican ameiva, the crested anole, and the big-scaled least gecko.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Southern Islands.
Southern Islands
Photo: Matt & Nayoung, CC BY 2.0.
The Southern Islands of the British Virgin Islands are uninhabited, but nonetheless oft visited by island-hopping yachters. They are beautiful, and provide some of the best snorkelling and diving opportunities in the territory.
Beef Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the British Virgin Islands
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: British Virgin Islands, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
18.43948° or 18° 26′ 22″ northLongitude
-64.53456° or 64° 32′ 4″ westElevation
59 feet (18 metres)IATA airport code
EISOpen location code
77CQCFQ8+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
way 157986805OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Beef Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيف آيلاند”
- Arabic: “جزيرة لحم البقر”
- Basque: “Beef uhartea”
- Cebuano: “Beef Island (pulo sa British Virgin Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Beef Island”
- Chinese: “牛肉島”
- Croatian: “Beef Island”
- Croatian: “Beef”
- Danish: “Beef Island”
- Dutch: “Beef Island”
- French: “Beef Island”
- Galician: “Illa Beef”
- German: “Beef Island”
- Hebrew: “ביף (אי)”
- Hebrew: “ביף”
- Japanese: “ビーフ島”
- Macedonian: “Говедски Остров”
- Spanish: “Isla Beef”
- Swedish: “Beef Island”
- Turkish: “Beef Adası”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Little Mountain and East End.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Long Bay Beach and Mount Alma.
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