Necker Island (British Virgin Islands)

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Necker Island
Necker Island
Necker Island
Waters Caribbean Sea
Archipelago Virgin Islands
Geographical location 18 ° 31 '38 "  N , 64 ° 21' 29"  W Coordinates: 18 ° 31 '38 "  N , 64 ° 21' 29"  W
Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) (British Virgin Islands)
Necker Island (British Virgin Islands)
length 840 m
width 650 m
surface 29 hectares

Necker Island is an island in the British Virgin Islands group , about 5 km northeast of Virgin Gorda .

geography

Necker Island is the second northernmost island in the Virgin Islands after Anegada . Its surface area is 29  hectares (0.29 km²). It is around 840 meters long and up to 650 meters wide from east to west. The highest point is Devils Hill in the southwest, on which The Great House stands.

history

The island was named after the Dutch squadron commander Jonathan de Neckere in the 17th century . It remained uninhabited until the second half of the 20th century.

In 1965, photographer Don McCullin and journalist Andrew Alexander spent a fortnight on the island on behalf of the Weekend Telegraph newspaper , for which they worked. The editor had hoped they would get through their Robinsonade for at least three weeks, but, as McCullin later reported, “Because of our increasing weakness and our nerves and drainage, we raised the red flag and became picked up in the first hours of the fifteenth day ”. According to McCullin, there was nothing idyllic on the uninhabited island .

The island has been owned by the British entrepreneur and philanthropist Richard Branson since 1979 , who offers it for exclusive tourism. In August 2011 the main building "The Great House" was struck by lightning and burned down. Two years later it was rebuilt.

In early September 2017, the island's infrastructure was largely destroyed by Hurricane Irma .

Web links

  • Necker Island. In: Virgin Limited Edition. VLE Limited(English).;

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Areas of the British Virgin Islands ( Memento of April 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ Hendrik Richard Hoetink (ed.): Encyclopedie van de Nederlandse Antillen . Elsevier, Amsterdam 1969, p. 227.
  3. ↑ Virgin Islands: How do you like your paradise? In: The Telegraph . Telegraph Media Group January 18, 2001; accessed on December 25, 2017 (English).
  4. ^ Don McCullin : Unreasonable Behavior - An Autobiographer . Vintage Books, London 2002, ISBN 978-0-09-943776-5 , 13: First the Lion, then Vultures, pp. 75 f . (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ Kate Winslet escapes fire in Branson mansion. Dpa press release . In: Focus Online . August 22, 2011. Retrieved December 25, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Elliot Wagland: Necker Iceland: Richard Branson reopens The Great House Two Years After It Was Destroyed By Fire (PICTURES). In: The Huffington Post . October 7, 2013, accessed December 25, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Hurricane 'Irma': Devastation and deaths in the British Virgin Islands. In: RP Online . September 8, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Amy B Wang, Alex Horton: Richard Branson emerges from wine-cellar bunker after Irma 'utterly devastated' his private island. In: washingtonpost.com . September 8, 2017, accessed December 25, 2017 .