The Ruins at Coppermine Point {Copper Mine National Park}: Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands7/29/2011 Everyone's Travel Club heads to land for this post. I recently read a sailing blog where the author brought his family to the Virgin Islands, chartered a boat, and then sailed around looking for ruins to anchor by and explore. He ended up finding only beach bars. Well, there aren't many on Virgin Gorda, and for the two that we found you could sail to one, but not this one. Coppermine Point is a recently created National Park on Virgin Gorda (2003). It represents the only known site within the West Indies with ties to the British industrial revolution. Natives mined here in the 1400s. The stone structures that are here now are the remnants of the Virgin Gorda Mining Company (1835-1862). They mined copper ore and shipped it to Wales in the United Kingdom for smelting. Two-hundred people used to operate the mine here! We highly recommend checking out this park, just don't try and sail to it (it's on the windward and rocky side of the island). We had the site to ourselves and best of all, it's free. ~Paul, Ann, Jon ETC
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rogister Alain-Robert
12/21/2013 10:43:46 pm
One can read in fr.wikipedia.org/Wiki/Virgin_Gorda : (ask for Virgin Gorda) :
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