Saint Croix

Saint Croix is the largest island of the , 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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Christiansted and Frederiksted.

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is a town on the island of Saint Croix in the . was the capital of the Danish West Indies from 1755 to 1871 and is a charming town with distinctive Danish architecture.

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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 Christiansted Harbor Sea Plane Base and St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Aerodrome
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Christiansted Harbor Seaplane Base, also known as St. Croix Seaplane Base, is located in the harbor by , Saint Croix, .

Church
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St. John's Episcopal Church, historically known as St. John's Anglican Church, is a church in Christiansted, Virgin Islands. Although most of the current building dates to 1868, a church has been located on the site since the 18th century.

Church
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The , 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.

Neighborhood
is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the .

Neighborhood
is an uninhabited settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the . Variant names for this place include Bog of Allen, Allendale, and August Pentheny's Plantage.

Neighborhood
is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the .

Saint Croix

  • Type: island with 41,000 residents
  • Description: one of the main islands of the Virgin Islands of the United States
  • Also known as: “Saint Croix Island”, “Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands”, “Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands”, “Santa Cruz”, “St Croix”, “St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands”, “St Croix, United States Virgin Islands”, “St. Croix”, and “St. Croix Island”
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude
17.7397° or 17° 44′ 23″ north
Longitude
-64.7389° or 64° 44′ 20″ west
Population
41,000
Open location code
779QP7Q6+VC
Wiki­data ID
Q642481
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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”
  • Icelandic: “Saint Croix”
  • 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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