Fort Christian
Fort Christian is a Dano-Norwegian-built fort in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Built 1672-1680, early in the first successful colonial establishment on the island, the fort served as a critical point of defense and government during the entire period of Dano-Norwegian, and later Danish, administration, which ended in 1917 with the sale of the islands to the United States.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Emancipation Garden and Blackbeard’s Castle.
Emancipation Garden
Park
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Emancipation Garden is a park in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands The park was built to commemorate the freeing of the slaves which took place on July 3, 1848.
Blackbeard’s Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blackbeard's Castle is one of five National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is located in the city of Charlotte Amalie, on the island of St. Thomas. Blackbeard’s Castle is situated 1,200 feet north of Fort Christian.
Frederick Lutheran Church
Church
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Frederick Lutheran Church is situated 550 feet north of Fort Christian.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Christian and Havensight.
Fort Christian
Hamlet
Photo: Андрей Бобровский, CC BY 3.0.
Fort Christian is a settlement on the island of Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.
Havensight
Hamlet
Photo: Андрей Бобровский, CC BY 3.0.
Havensight on Saint Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands is a community and the busiest cruise port in the world. It is located predominantly subdistrict of Charlotte Amalie with a small portion in the Southside census subdistrict, 1.5 miles from territorial historical capital of Charlotte Amalie's downtown in Charlotte Amalie East.
Frenchtown
Hamlet
Frenchtown is a settlement on the island of Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. It is located on the south coast, on the west side of the capital, Charlotte Amalie and to the east of the settlement of Altona.
Fort Christian
- Type: Fort
- Also known as: “Christiaans Fort”, “Christian’s Fort”, “Christiansfort”, “Fort Saint Thomas”, “Kastellet”, and “Kristiansfort”
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Swedish—“Fort Christian” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Fort Christian”
- Danish: “Fort Christian”
- Dutch: “Fort Christian”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن كريستيان”
- French: “fort Christian”
- French: “Fort Christian”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Christian”
- Norwegian: “Fort Christian”
- Portuguese: “Forte Christian”
- Russian: “Форт Кристиан”
- Swedish: “Fort Christian”
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