| anc _ a wail - > — a wa he <a 2 x wes Get ei || “ aged = naa . — 4 “ i Location Overview een pee ee oe pe Sate Se yeh oo Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea - Peace eas — directly east of Puerto Rico. Together with St. John and Te a ee an EP & a EE : Water Island, St. Thomas forms a county and constituent Ve xe oe bagean ee eg er oe ee a = district of the United States Virgin stands (USVI), an AS Stage Pim ecg & : unincorporated territory of the United States. Locate 2 es ee eal! LS Os fm 5 pe ies va on the island of Saint Thomas is the territorial capital - ee oe <5 Se = Ss ae Sealers poe and port of Charlotte Amalie. As of the 2010 census, the es 5 ae a ery WY een = population of Saint Thomas was 51,634 about 48.5% of ee 6 (> eres 2) ee 3 the US Virgin Islands total. The district has a land area of 2 Sp ERT ae ee ee 31.24 square miles. i ‘L Ga aE fF me} a oe . & - a In 1917, St. Thomas was purchased (along with Saint : SS ne John and Saint Croix) by the United States for $25 a ' — —e million in gold, as part of a defensive strategy to a coal maintain control over the Caribbean and the Panama engl 7 ee Sa Canal during the First World War. U.S. citizenship was a 2 oi 9 Oe granted to the residents of St. Thomas in 1927 and the Pe eet ae eee U.S. Department of the Interior took over administrative nS i. Bw eS ey duties in 1931. American forces were based on the island -_- ee Sel during the Second World War and the 1954, passage Sones See of the U.S. Virgin Islands Organic Act officially granted territorial status to the three islands - St. Thomas, St. ae — | _ | ea a gg cee St. Thomas has a lively tourist trade. It is the USVI’s_ most (+ at - Las = cosmopolitan island, yet it still retains the distinctive atmosphere of a secluded Caribbean paradise. St. “ = . i hn ? Thomas is packed with many tourism activities including ; . =a = ee shopping, sailing, snorkeling, sightseeing, diving and eee dining. The Island is home to a world-renowned golf ee course, pi