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Beaches Attractions In St. Croix

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Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands , an unincorporated territory of the United States. St. Croix is the largest of the islands in the territory. However, the territory's capital, Charlotte Amalie, is located on Saint Thomas. As of the 2010 United States Census, St. Croix's population was 50,601, its highest point is Mount Eagle, at 355 metres . St. Croix's nickname is Twin City, for its two towns on opposite ends of the island, Frederiksted on the western end and Christiansted on the east.
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  • 2. Protestant Cay Christiansted
    Protestant Cay is a four-acre triangular islet in the Christiansted Harbor, 200 yards north of Christiansted. It has the closest beach to Downtown Christiansted. The island is home to a resort, the Hotel on the Cay, which is home to a sand beach, several shops and restaurants. The ferries to Protestant Cay are free of charge and leave from King’s Wharf in Christiansted. The endemic Saint Croix ground lizard was once roaming Saint Croix and all nearby islands and islets, but is now only found on Protestant- and Green Cays off Saint Croix’s northern coast. Local legend says the island is named because the Roman Catholic French rulers of the late 1600s wanted all of non-Catholic faith to be safely interred on the offshore islet. As only Catholics were allowed burials on Saint Croix, peopl...
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  • 11. Green Cay St Croix
    Green Cay National Wildlife Refuge, just north of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, preserves habitat for the largest remaining population of endangered Saint Croix ground lizard . Much smaller populations of ground lizard live on nearby Protestant Cay and on Ruth Island. Its extirpation from the mainland of St. Croix is generally attributed to the introduction of the small Indian mongoose . In 2008, the National Park Service reintroduce the lizard to Buck Island, translocating 57 individuals from Green Cay.The 14-acre Green Cay is midway between the town of Christiansted and Buck Island Reef National Monument . Green Cay NWR is administered as part of the Caribbean Islands National Wildlife complex. There is a smaller Green Cay off the coast of St. Thomas .
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  • 13. Reef Beach St Croix
    Buck Island Reef National Monument, or just Buck Island is a small, uninhabited, 176 acre island about 1.5 miles north of the northeast coast of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The monument also includes 18,839 acres of submerged lands totaling 19,015 acres. It was first established as a protected area by the U.S. Government in 1948, with the intention of preserving “one of the finest marine gardens in the Caribbean Sea.” The U.S. National Monument was created in 1961 by John F. Kennedy and greatly expanded in 2001 by Bill Clinton, over the bitter opposition of local fishermen. Buck Island National Monument is one of few places in the Virgin Islands where brown pelicans and threatened least terns nest. Most of the Monument area, which is administered by the National Park Service, is ...
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  • 14. North Shore St Croix
    Speed limits in the United States vary depending on jurisdiction, with 75 to 80 mph common in the Western United States and 65 to 75 mph common in the Eastern United States. States may also set special speed limits for trucks and night travel along with minimum speed limits. The highest speed limit in the country is 85 mph , which is posted on a single stretch of tollway in rural Texas.
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