Saint Croix
Saint Croix is the largest island of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a territory of the United States of America. This island of rolling hills, rainforest, and picturesque towns is the home of approximately 60,000 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Christiansted and Frederiksted.
Christiansted
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Christiansted is a town on the island of Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Christiansted was the capital of the Danish West Indies from 1755 to 1871 and is a charming town with distinctive Danish architecture.
Frederiksted
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Frederiksted is both a town and one of the two administrative districts of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It is a grid-planned city, designed by surveyor Jens Beckfor, originally to 14x14 blocks but built 7x7 to enhance the island commerce in the 1700s.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Good Hope Country Day School and St. Croix Central High School.
Good Hope Country Day School
School
Good Hope Country Day School, formerly St. Croix Country Day School prior to a merger in 2013 with the Good Hope School, is an independent, non-sectarian, non-profit, college preparatory school serving all grades from PreK-12 located in Kingshill, St.
St. Croix Central High School
School
St. Croix Central High School, commonly referred to as "Central High" or "Central," is the largest public high school located on the island Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. The school is operated by the St. Croix School District.
Friedensthal Mission
Church
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The Friedensthal Mission, southwest of Christiansted in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, was partly built by 1830. Also known as Friedensthal Moravian Church, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Grande Princesse and Allandale.
La Grande Princesse
Neighborhood
La Grande Princesse is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Allandale
Neighborhood
Allandale is an uninhabited settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. Variant names for this place include Bog of Allen, Allendale, and August Pentheny's Plantage.
Limetree
Neighborhood
Limetree is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Saint Croix
- Type: Locality with 50,600 residents
- Description: one of the main islands of the Virgin Islands of the United States
- Also known as: “Agay”, “Ay Ay”, “Ay-Ay”, “Ayay”, “Cibuguiera”, “Cibuquiera”, “Eylandet Saint Croix”, “L’Isle de Sainte Croix”, “Saint Croix Island”, “Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands”, “Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands”, “Sainte Croix”, “Sanct Croix”, “Sancta Crux”, “Santa Cruz”, “St Croix”, “St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands”, “St Croix, United States Virgin Islands”, “St. Croix”, “St. Croix Island”, and “The Quiet Virgin”
- Category: island
- Location: U.S. Virgin Islands, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Saint Croix” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سانت كروا”
- Arabic: “سينت كروا”
- Armenian: “Սանտա Կրուս”
- Basque: “Saint Croix”
- Bulgarian: “Сейнт Крой”
- Catalan: “Saint Croix”
- Cebuano: “Saint Croix Island”
- Cebuano: “Saint Croix”
- Chinese: ““圣·克罗伊”号双桅船”
- Chinese: “「圣·克罗伊」号双桅船”
- Chinese: “圣克洛伊岛”
- Chinese: “圣克罗伊岛”
- Chinese: “聖克洛伊島”
- Chinese: “聖克羅伊”
- Corsican: “Isula di Saint Croix”
- Corsican: “Saint Croix”
- Croatian: “Saint Croix”
- Czech: “Saint Croix”
- Czech: “Svatý Kříž”
- Danish: “Sankt Croix”
- Danish: “Skt. Croix”
- Danish: “St Croix”
- Danish: “St. Croix”
- Dutch: “Saint Croix”
- Dutch: “Sint-Kruis”
- Dutch: “St. Croix”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سينت كروا”
- Esperanto: “Sankta Kruco”
- Finnish: “Saint Croix”
- French: “Sainte-Croix”
- French: “TISX”
- Galician: “Santa Cruz, Illas Virxes”
- Galician: “Santa Cruz”
- German: “Saint Croix”
- German: “St. Croix”
- Greek: “Άγιος Σταυρός”
- Greek: “Σαιντ Κρουά”
- Hebrew: “סנט קרואה”
- Hebrew: “סנט קרוי”
- Hebrew: “סנט קרויקס”
- Hungarian: “Saint Croix sziget, USA Virgin-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Santo Croix”
- Irish: “Saint Croix”
- Italian: “Isola di Saint Croix”
- Italian: “Saint Croix”
- Italian: “St Croix”
- Italian: “St. Croix”
- Japanese: “セント・クロイ”
- Japanese: “セント・クロイ島”
- Korean: “세인트 크로이 섬”
- Korean: “세인트 크루아 섬”
- Korean: “세인트크로이섬”
- Korean: “세인트크루아 섬”
- Latvian: “Sentkroisa”
- Macedonian: “Сент Крој”
- Northern Frisian: “Saint Croix”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saint Croix”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “St. Croix”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “St.Croix”
- Norwegian: “Saint Croix”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Saint Croix”
- Papiamento: “Sint Croix”
- Persian: “سنت کرویکس، جزایر ویرجین ایالات متحده آمریکا”
- Persian: “سنت کرویکس، جزایر ویرجین ایالات متحده”
- Polish: “Saint Croix”
- Polish: “Saint-Croix”
- Portuguese: “Saint Croix”
- Portuguese: “St. Croix”
- Romanian: “Saint Croix, Insulele Virgine Americane”
- Romanian: “Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands”
- Romanian: “St. Croix”
- Russian: “Санта-Крус”
- Russian: “Сен-Круа”
- Serbian: “Saint Croix”
- Serbian: “Sent Kroj”
- Serbian: “Сен Кроа”
- Serbian: “Сен Крој”
- Serbian: “Сент Кроа”
- Serbian: “Сент Крој”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Croix”
- Sinhala: “ශාන්ත ක්රොයික්ස්, එක්සත් ජනපද වර්ජින් දූපත්”
- Slovenian: “Saint Croix”
- Slovenian: “St. Croix”
- Spanish: “Saint Croix”
- Spanish: “Santa Cruz Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos”
- Spanish: “Santa Cruz”
- Swedish: “Saint Croix”
- Swedish: “St. Croix”
- Thai: “Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands”
- Thai: “Saint Croix”
- Thai: “St. Croix”
- Thai: “เซนต์ครอย”
- Turkish: “Saint Croix, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Virjin Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Крус”
- Urdu: “سینٹ کروی، امریکی جزائر ورجن”
- Vietnamese: “Saint Croix”
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