Great Saint James
Great Saint James is a private island in the United States Virgin Islands, located off the east end of St. Thomas and belonging to subdistrict East End, Saint Thomas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the United States Virgin Islands
- Also known as: “Grand Saint James Isle”, “Great Saint James Island”, “Great Saint James Island, USVI”, “Great Saint James Isle”, “Great Saint James, U.S. Virgin Islands”, “Groot Saint Jems”, “Gross Saint James”, “Ost Passatt”, “Ost-Passat”, “Saint James Island”, “Santiago Grande”, and “Store Saint James”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Little Saint James and Dog Island.
Little Saint James
Islet
Photo: Navin75, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Saint James is a small private island in the United States Virgin Islands, southeast of Saint Thomas. It was owned by American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 1998 until his death in 2019.
Dog Island
Islet
Dog Island is a small, uninhabited island located east-southeast of Little Saint James island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Dog Island is separated from Little Saint James by the Dog Island Cut.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cruz Bay and Enighed.
Cruz Bay
Photo: Fred Hsu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cruz Bay is the main town on Saint John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The harbor for this town is filled with sailboats from around the world. The small town square is the center of commerce, with many small bars, restaurants and shops.
Enighed
Neighborhood
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Enighed, Saint John is the neighborhood on Enighed Hill adjacent to the town of Cruz Bay on the island of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands.
Saint John
Photo: Bike756, Public domain.
Saint John is the smallest, but many say the prettiest of the U.S. Virgin Islands because of its world-class beaches. Two-thirds of Saint John is Virgin Islands National Park.
Great Saint James
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.31056° or 18° 18′ 38″ northLongitude
-64.82909° or 64° 49′ 45″ westElevation
59 feet (18 metres)Open location code
77CQ856C+69OpenStreetMap ID
way 157804853OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
4795834Wikidata ID
Q5599902
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Great Saint James” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غريت سانت جيمس”
- Cebuano: “Great Saint James Island”
- Dutch: “Great Saint James”
- German: “Great Saint James”
- Japanese: “グレート・セント・ジェームズ島”
- Portuguese: “Great Saint James (Ilhas Virgens Americanas)”
- Portuguese: “Great Saint James”
- Slovenian: “Great Saint James”
- Spanish: “Isla Gran Saint James”
- Turkish: “Great Saint James”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Contant and Estate Chocolate Hole and Great Cruz Bay.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fish Cay and Current Rock.
U.S. Virgin Islands: Must-Visit Destinations
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Great Saint James”. Photo: Gruepig, CC BY-SA 4.0.