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|text='''Tortola''' is the largest and most populous of the [[British Virgin Islands]], and the location of the territory's capital and chief financial centre, Road Town. | |text='''Tortola''' is the largest and most populous of the [[British Virgin Islands]], and the location of the territory's capital and chief financial centre, Road Town. | ||
Local tradition recounts that Christopher Columbus named the island Tortola, meaning "[land of the] Turtle Dove". Columbus in fact named the island ''Santa Ana''. The later Dutch settled and called it ''Ter Tholen'', after a coastal island forming part of the west coast of the Netherlands, and when the British took over, they altered the name to its present-day Tortola}}<noinclude> | Local tradition recounts that Christopher Columbus named the island Tortola, meaning "[land of the] Turtle Dove". Columbus in fact named the island ''Santa Ana''. The later Dutch settled and called it ''Ter Tholen'', after a coastal island forming part of the west coast of the Netherlands, and when the British took over, they altered the name to its present-day Tortola.}}<noinclude> | ||
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