Little Jost Van Dyke

Nickname: Little Jost
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Geography
Location	Caribbean Sea
Coordinates	18°27′13″N 64°43′15″W / 18.45361°N 64.72083°W / 18.45361; -64.72083
Archipelago	Virgin Islands
Administration
United Kingdom
British Overseas Territory	British Virgin Islands
Demographics
Population	0
Additional information
Time zone	AST (UTC-4)
ISO code	VG

Little Jost Van Dyke (colloquially, "Little Jost") is one of the British Virgin Islands. It is a small island on the east end of the island of Jost Van Dyke. Like Jost Van Dyke, it takes its name from the Dutch privateer Joost van Dyk. It is the location of the Diamond Cay National Park, which includes the nesting grounds of wild boobies, terns and pelicans.^[1]

Sights

Dive sites can be found at Twin Towers, two large rock formations rising from 90 feet.

There is a small bar and restaurant called B-Line Beach Bar on the south side of the island.^[2] The bar can be reached by docking at a crumbling cement pier that was constructed for a failed fuel depot project. The operators of the bar are the island's only inhabitants.

Fauna and flora

Eagle rays and tarpon are found here.^[3]

Natives

The island has no major settlement today, but was the site of an eighteenth-century Quaker colony.

John C. Lettsome (1744—1815), founder of the Medical Society of London,^[4] was born on the island.