Cockburn Town

Cockburn Town
	Cockburn Town
	Cockburn Town
Coordinates	21 ° 28 ′ N , 71 ° 8 ′ W Coordinates: 21 ° 28 ′ N , 71 ° 8 ′ W
Basic data
Country	Turks and Caicos Islands
ISO 3166-2	TC
Residents	3720 (2016)
founding	1681
	Street train in Cockburn Town

National Museum of the Turks and Caicos Islands

Cockburn Town ([ˈkoʊbərn taʊn]) is the de facto capital of the British overseas territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands . It is located on Grand Turk Island , the largest of the Turks Islands . The city was in 1681 by salt collectors of Bermuda established and is since 1766 the capital of the territory.

Today (July 2016) the city has about 3720 inhabitants.

Cockburn Town is characterized by numerous colonial buildings, including the National Museum and the Post Office.

sons and daughters of the town

Dudley Stokes (* 1962), Jamaican bobsleigh driver and pilot of the first Jamaican bobsleigh team