Tortola
Tortola is the capital island of the British Virgin Islands and Road Town is the capital city. There's not a lot to see, although the original architecture of little wooden houses housing some interesting shops, cafes and an art gallery or two and Cockroach Hall built on a huge rock on Main Street is not be missed.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in British Virgin Islands
- Also known as: “Tortola BVI”, “Tortola Island”, and “Tortola, British Virgin Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. William’s Church and Peebles Hospital.
St. William’s Church
Place of worship
St. William's Church is a Catholic church in Road Town, the capital of the British Virgin Islands. Although the community was founded in 1957 with a small chapel it was completed in 1993 and the first church much larger current building dates from 1999 and included the construction of a parish hall and administrative offices.
Peebles Hospital
Hospital
Peebles Hospital is the main public hospital in the British Virgin Islands. The hospital is located in the capital, Road Town, on the island of Tortola.
Elmore Stoutt High School
School
Elmore Stoutt High School is a grade 7-12 secondary school in Road Town, Tortola. It is the largest secondary school in the British Virgin Islands and plays a central role in public education across the territory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Road Town.
Road Town
Town
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Tortola is the capital island of the British Virgin Islands and Road Town is the capital city. There's not a lot to see, although the original architecture of little wooden houses housing some interesting shops, cafes and an art gallery or two and Cockroach Hall built on a huge rock on Main Street is not be missed.
Tortola
- Category: landform
- Location: British Virgin Islands, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Tortola from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tortola” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تورتولا”
- Armenian: “Տորտոլա”
- Basque: “Tortola”
- Catalan: “Tortola”
- Catalan: “Tórtola”
- Cebuano: “Tortola”
- Chechen: “Тортола”
- Chinese: “托土拉島”
- Chinese: “托尔托拉岛”
- Chinese: “托爾托拉島”
- Croatian: “Tortola”
- Czech: “Tortola”
- Danish: “Tortola”
- Dutch: “Tertholen”
- Dutch: “Tortola”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تورتولا”
- Esperanto: “Tortola”
- Finnish: “Tortola”
- French: “Tortola”
- French: “TUPJ”
- Galician: “Tórtola”
- German: “Ter Tholen”
- German: “Tertholen”
- German: “Tortola”
- Greek: “Τορτόλα”
- Hebrew: “טורטולה”
- Hungarian: “Tortola”
- Indonesian: “Tortola”
- Irish: “Tortola”
- Italian: “Tortola”
- Japanese: “トルトラ島”
- Korean: “토르톨라”
- Korean: “토르톨라섬”
- Latin: “Tortola”
- Latvian: “Tortola”
- Lithuanian: “Tortola”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tortola”
- Norwegian: “Tortola”
- Papiamento: “Tortola”
- Persian: “تورتولا”
- Polish: “Tortola”
- Portuguese: “Tortola”
- Russian: “Тортола”
- Serbian: “Tortola”
- Serbian: “Тортола”
- Silesian: “Tortola”
- Slovenian: “Tortola”
- Spanish: “Tortola”
- Spanish: “Tórtola”
- Swedish: “Tortola”
- Turkish: “Tortola”
- Ukrainian: “Тортола”
- Vietnamese: “Tortola”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tortola”. Photo: Calyponte, CC BY-SA 3.0.