Saint John (island, United States Virgin Islands)

Trunk Bay, St. John island, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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White-sand beach along Cinnamon Bay, Virgin Islands National Park, St. John, U.S....

Reef Bay, Virgin Islands National Park, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, West Indies.

Galen S. Swint

Ruins of Annaberg Sugar Mill, Virgin Islands National Park, St. John, U.S. Virgin...

Stone ruins of the Annaberg Sugar Mill, part of an 18th-century sugar plantation...

The U.S. purchased three of the Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917.

Ben Whitney

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