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Fallen Jerusalem Island

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Location
  
Caribbean

British Overseas Territory
  
British Virgin Islands

Area
  
19 ha

Archipelago
  
Virgin Islands

Population
  
0 (uninhabited)

Island group
  
Virgin Islands

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Fallen Jerusalem is an uninhabited island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, located to the south of Virgin Gorda. It obtained its name from the large number of oversized volcanic boulders that scatter the island (some of which weigh thousands of tons) which give it the vague resemblance of a destroyed city. It was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1959.

Map of Fallen Jerusalem Island, British Virgin Islands

References

Fallen Jerusalem Island Wikipedia