- Great Camanoe
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latd=18 |latm=28 |lats=30 |latNS=N
longd=64 |longm=31 |longs=55 |longEW=WGreat Camanoe is a small island located just north of
Beef Island and northeast ofTortola in theBritish Virgin Islands , a group of islands which forms part of thearchipelago of theVirgin Islands , located in theAtlantic Ocean andCaribbean Sea .Great Camanoe is primarily a residential island, divided into two residential communities, Indigo Plantation and The Privateers, both on the southern half of the island. Access to the island is by boat only. Visitors often anchor at Lee Bay or Cam Bay, a national park and good
snorkeling site.Great Camanoe was named after
Pieter Adriensen (whose nickname was "the Commander", from which Camanoe is derived), who was effectively second in command of the Territory during the1630s , when his brother,Abraham Adriensen , was appointing Patron of the British Virgin Islands by theDutch West India Company .
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