2021年9月15日 · Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve uniquely documents the human and natural Caribbean world from the earliest indigenous settlements in the central Caribbean to their clash with seven different colonial European powers to the present day.

Witness to every period of human settlement in St. Croix, Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve is one of the most important archeological and natural sites in the U.S Virgin Islands.

2018年8月23日 · Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve contains an estuarine bay that flows into open marine conditions uniquely positioned on the edge of a worldclass submarine canyon that empties into the 3-mile-deep basin, Virgin Islands Trough, to the north of St. Croix.

2017年6月8日 · Salt River Bay is a living museum on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Prehistoric and colonial-era archeological sites and ruins are found in a dynamic, typical ecosystem that supports threatened and endangered species.

2015年4月14日 · There are several air carriers to St Croix arriving at the Henry E. Rohlesen Airport. The park is five miles from Christiansted National Historic Site and can be reached by car via Rt. 75 from Christiansted, connecting to Route 80.

The beach at Salt River Point (also known as Columbus Landing) is recognized as the site where members of Columbus’s second voyage landed on November 14, 1493. This place is one of two documented sites on what is now U.S. territory where a Columbus expedition made landfall.

2015年4月14日 · Salt River Bay offers visitors a variety of ways to explore the area. Ask your lodging hosts for information about guided land tours. Scuba diving, snorkeling, kayaking, and hiking tours can be arranged too.

Stop by the Visitor Contact Station on the hilltop overlooking the Columbus’ Landing Site, where our volunteers will treat you to a presentation about the rich history and the natural settings of the Salt River watershed.

soldiers ashore in search of fresh water. Salt River was a year-round stream then, but it is intermittent now because of centuries of significant land use and regional climatic change. Although Salt River Bay is St. Croix's second largest watershed, the river flows only after significant or sustained periods of rainfall. Just offshore is the ...

La bahía de Salt River es un museo viviente en St. Croix, Islas Vírgenes de EE UU. Es un ecosistema tropical dinámico con ruinas y lugares arqueológicos prehistóricos y de la era colonial. Alberga algunos de los bosques de mangos más grandes de las Islas Vírgenes al igual que arrecifes de coral y un cañón submarino.