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Did you know? U.S. Virgin Islands

Three things about the place behind the numbers.

Bought from Denmark

The United States purchased the islands from Denmark in 1917 for twenty-five million dollars in gold, wanting a naval position near the Panama Canal during the First World War. Danish street names and architecture survive in Charlotte Amalie and Christiansted.

American cars, British roads

The US Virgin Islands drive on the left, a holdover from the Danish colonial period that was never changed. The cars, imported from the mainland, have the steering wheel on the left as well, which visitors find alarming for roughly a day.

The refinery on St Croix

St Croix hosted one of the largest oil refineries in the western hemisphere for decades, and its closure in 2012 took thousands of well paid jobs out of an island of around fifty thousand people. The site and the repeated attempts to restart it remain the biggest single question in the territory's economy.

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