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Virgin Gorda is the third-largest (after Tortola
Tortola

Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands....
 and Anegada
Anegada

Anegada is the northernmost of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. It lies approximately north of Virgin Gorda....
) and second most populous of the British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands is a British overseas territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands, the remaining islands constituting the United States Virgin Islands....
 (BVI). Located at approximately 18 degrees, 48 minutes North, and 64 degrees, 30 minutes West, it covers an area of about 8 square miles (21 kmē).






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Virgin Gorda is the third-largest (after Tortola
Tortola

Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands....
 and Anegada
Anegada

Anegada is the northernmost of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. It lies approximately north of Virgin Gorda....
) and second most populous of the British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands is a British overseas territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands, the remaining islands constituting the United States Virgin Islands....
 (BVI). Located at approximately 18 degrees, 48 minutes North, and 64 degrees, 30 minutes West, it covers an area of about 8 square miles (21 kmē). Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was a Republic of Genoa navigator, colonialist and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean?funded by Queen Isabella of Spain?led to general European awareness of the America in the Western Hemisphere....
 is said to have named the island "The Fat Virgin", because its silhouette resembles a rotund woman lying on her back.

The main town is Spanish Town
Spanish Town, British Virgin Islands

Spanish Town on southern Virgin Gorda is the second largest town on the British Virgin Islands. Also known as The Valley, Spanish Town offers numerous shopping possibilities....
 on the southwestern part of the island.

An unusual geologic formation known as "The Baths
The Baths

The Baths is a beach area on the island of Virgin Gorda among the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean....
" located on the southern end of the island makes Virgin Gorda one of the BVI's major tourist destination
Tourist destination

A tourist destination is a city, town or other area that is dependent to a significant extent on the revenues accruing from tourism. It may contain one or more tourist attraction or visitor attraction and possibly some "tourist trap"....
s. At The Baths, the beach shows evidence of the island's volcanic origins, as huge granite
Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of Intrusion , felsic, igneous rock rock . Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as Porphyry ....
 boulders lie in piles on the beach, forming scenic grottoes
Grotto

A grotto is any type of natural or artificial cave that is associated with modern, historic or prehistoric use by humans. When it is not an artificial garden feature, a grotto is often a small cave near water and often flooded or liable to flood at high tide....
 that are open to the sea. North of the Baths is the Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbor, formerly owned Little Dix Bay. The most notable ruin on Virgin Gorda is the old Copper Mine
Copper Mine, Virgin Gorda

The Copper Mine on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands is a National Park containing the ruins of an abandoned 19th-century copper mine.Copper was first discovered on Virgin Gorda in the 17th century by the Dutch, but they were never able to successfully exploit it....
.

Transportation

Virgin Gorda Airport
Virgin Gorda Airport

Virgin Gorda Airport is an airport on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands, an British overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The Virgin Gorda Airport, is to date, owned and operated by the Government of the VI ....
 serves the island.

Education

The British Virgin Islands operates several government schools.

Virgin Gorda residents are served by Robinson O'Neal Memorial Primary School, a primary school, and Bregado Flax Educational Centre, a combined primary and secondary school which opened in 1982. In 2000 the government created plans to create a primary school on the island.

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