Fallen Jerusalem Island

Coordinates: 18°25′00″N 64°27′05″W / 18.41667°N 64.45139°W / 18.41667; -64.45139

Fallen Jerusalem Island
Geography
Aerial view of Fallen Jerusalem
Location	Caribbean
Archipelago	Virgin Islands
Area	48 acres (19 ha)
Administration
United Kingdom
British Overseas Territory	British Virgin Islands
Demographics
Population	0 (uninhabited)

Fallen Jerusalem is an uninhabited island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, located to the south of Virgin Gorda. It obtained its name from the large number of oversized volcanic boulders that scatter the island (some of which weigh thousands of tons) which give it the vague resemblance of a destroyed city. It was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1959.^[1]

References

↑ "Fallen Jerusalem National Park". bvitourism.com. Retrieved 9 June 2014.

Fallen Jerusalem. Part of Virgin Gorda is visible to the left.

Islands of the British Virgin Islands

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