The U.S. Virgin Islands is an unincorporated organized territory of
the United States of America, east of Puerto Rico, between the Caribbean Sea
and the North Atlantic Ocean. It was formerly known as the Danish West
Indies. Together with the British Virgin Islands, to the northeast, the
territory forms the Virgin Islands archipelago.
Christopher Columbus named the islands Santa Ursula y las Once Mil
Vírgenes (shortened to Las Vírgenes), More...