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Virgin Islands Education
Tropical,
tempered by easterly trade winds, relatively low
humidity, little seasonal temperature variation. Has
experienced several hurricanes in recent years, although
with little consequent damage, as well as floods,
usually in October or November. Virgin
Islands Creole is an English-based creole spoken in the
Virgin Islands and the nearby SSS islands of Saba, Saint
Eustatius and Saint Martin, where it has been known as
Netherlands Antilles Creole. The
official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been
the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the
United States Virgin Islands. The population of the British Virgin
Islands is approximately 24, 900 (2010 est) and the
official language is English. The population consists of
a mixture of British, Spanish, Dutch, Amerindian and
Caribbean racial types; in the last twenty years
immigrants in search of work from other parts of the
Caribbean have more than doubled the population. Road Town, located on Tortola, is the
capital of the British Virgin Islands. It is situated on
the horseshoe-shaped Road Harbour in the centre of the
island's south coast. The town's population was about
9, 400 in 2004.
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