Dead Chest Island.

Dead Chest Island is little more than a large rock outcropping located just under one half mile north east (0. 4 miles at 27 degrees true) of Deadman's Bay on Peter Island, British Virgin Islands. Peter Island is a private island located in the British Virgin Islands, about 5 The British Virgin Islands ( BVI) is a British overseas territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. ^[1] It is uninhabited, has no fresh water or trees and only sparse vegetation. It was formerly used as a firing range by the Royal Virgin Islands Police, but the opening of the nearby hotel on Peter Island coincided with the decision to build a proper firing range on the island of Tortola. Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which form part of the Archipelago of the Virgin Islands.

Deadman's Bay earned its name from a story where the infamous pirate Blackbeard left several of his crew on this island with nothing except a bottle of rum as punishment. Edward Teach (tɛtʃ c 1680 – November 22, 1718) better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English Pirate in the Caribbean When the sailors tried to swim off of the deserted island to Peter Island, they perished. Peter Island is a private island located in the British Virgin Islands, about 5

It has also been suggested the island's name is related to the sea shanty "Dead man's chest", probably first written by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel Treasure Island. Sea shanties (singular " shanty " also spelled " chantey " derived from the French word "chanter" 'to sing' were Shipboard " Dead Man's Chest " (also known as Fifteen Men On A Dead Man's Chest or Derelict) is a sailor's work song or " Sea shanty " from Robert Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850–3 December 1894 was a Scottish novelist poet and travel writer, and a representative of Neo-romanticism in Treasure Island is an adventure Novel by author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold" Stevenson found the name "Dead Man's Chest" in a book by Charles Kingsley and said "Treasure Island came out of Kingsley's At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies (1871); where I got the 'Dead Man's Chest' - that was the seed". Charles Kingsley ( June 12 1819 &ndash January 23 1875) was an English Novelist, particularly associated with the ^[2][3]

The island is now an uninhabited National Park, with several popular Scuba diving and snorkeling sites. Scuba diving is swimming underwater, or taking part in another activity while using a Scuba set. Snorkeling ( British spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of Swimming at the surface of a body of water while equipped with a Diving mask, a

Deadchest island as viewed from Deadman's Bay, Peter Island

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