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Untitled[edit]

Ok, the article needs:

Does this island have it's own language? Dialect?

It's own musical styles?

Gringo300 00:50, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

People speak English in the BVI, albeit with a strong regional accent. There is already a separate article on music of the British Virgin Islands. --Legis (talk - contributions) 07:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK at the risk of being politically incorrect the demise of the sugar industry may have been partly the result of the abolition of slavery but the discovery of the efficient extraction of sugar from sugar beets in the early 1800's seems to have been a strong factor in the falling price of sugar at that time. Drayper (talk) 03:14, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The etymology[edit]

The etymology section reads "Local tradition recounts that Christopher Columbus named the island Tortuga, meaning "turtledove" in Spanish. In fact, Columbus named the island as Santa Ana. Dutch colonists called it Ter Tholen, after a coastal island that is part of the Netherlands. When the British took over, the name evolved to Tortola." Well, maybe that's all true, but can someone find a reliable source saying that this is exactly what the tradition there holds and/or clarifies which part of this is the real origin? Could it be that the "ter Tholen" part is folklore? I'm asking because "tortuga" means "turtle", not "turtledove", in Spanish—while the Spanish word for "turtledove" is "tórtola". So it's almost as though two different stories are being conflated here, and I'm wondering whether anything more accurate can be said about the matter. Largoplazo (talk) 10:23, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane Irma in the lead[edit]

Wikipedia asks: Please consider expanding the lead So what does User:Richard mobley do? Deletes all mention of the most significant event in history, devastation by the hurricane.

"The island looks like it was leveled by a bomb" http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phish-launch-hurricane-relief-fund-for-caribbean-island-tortola-w502880

The lead for every affected island, Florida Keys, etc includes at least a few sentences about the effect of Hurricane Irma.

And exactly who did that edit??

  Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact name. In general, this page should be created and edited by User:Richard mobley. If in doubt, please verify that "Richard mobley" exists. Peter K Burian (talk) 13:31, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Indigenous inhabitants[edit]

A quick google search confirms that Tortolan history did not begin with European access to the island. The pre-Colombian history of the island is not under debate - it was first settled by indigenous people between 100 BC and 200 AD.^[1]^[2]^[3] Is there a reason there is no reference to indigenous occupation at the beginning of the history section of the article? 2604:2D80:E594:3800:CC67:7B28:D06:75C8 (talk) 18:06, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

[1] ttps://bvi.gov.vg/content/our-history

[2] ttps://www.maritimeheritage.org/ports/caribbeanTortola.html

[3] ttps://www.soulofamerica.com/international/tortola/tortola-history/

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