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Top 8 sights in Beef Island

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   RMS Rhone

   A Royal Mail steamer wrecked off Salt Island in the hurricane of 29 October 1867, with the loss of a hundred and twenty-three. She lies in two parts in shallow and deep water, and is among the best wreck dives in the Caribbean; The Deep was filmed on her in 1977.

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   The Baths

   A shore on Virgin Gorda where granite boulders the size of houses have tumbled together into grottoes and tidal pools. A marked route squeezes between and under them to Devil's Bay, sometimes wading.

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   Fort Purcell

   The remains of a fort near Pockwood Pond on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, known locally as the Dungeon.

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   Whelk Point Fort

   A colonial fort that stood in the southeast of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. Little of it survives; a house was built over the old foundations in 1992, though traces of the barracks remain behind it.

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   Fort Charlotte

   A fort at Harrigan's Hill on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, named after Queen Charlotte.

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   Fort George

   The remains of a colonial fort above Baugher's Bay northeast of Road Town on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. It is sometimes held to have been built first by Dutch settlers to protect the slave holding pens at Fort Purcell below.

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   Road Town Fort

   A colonial fort that stood on Russell Hill above the wharf at Road Town on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. It was later demolished, and a hospital was built over the site in the 1960s.

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   St. Phillip's Church

   An Anglican church at Kingstown on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, built in 1840 by Africans freed from illegal slave ships. It is known as the African Church and stood ruined and long disused at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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