Fallen Jerusalem Island

{{Short description|Uninhabited island of the British Virgin Islands}}

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| image_name = Fallen Jerusalem Island VirginGorda BVI.jpg

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| image_caption = Aerial view of Fallen Jerusalem

| image_map = Fallen Jerusalem Island, Little Sisters BVI.svg

| map = British Virgin Islands#Caribbean

| map_caption = The location of Fallen Jerusalem Island within the British Virgin

| location = Caribbean Sea

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| country_admin_divisions_title = British Overseas Territory

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Fallen Jerusalem is an uninhabited island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, located to the south of Virgin Gorda. It obtained its name from the large number of oversized volcanic boulders that are scattered over the island (some of which weigh thousands of tons) which give it the vague resemblance of a destroyed city. It was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1959.{{cite web|url=http://www.bvitourism.com/activity/fallen-jerusalem-national-park |title=Fallen Jerusalem National Park |website=bvitourism.com |access-date=9 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714162326/http://www.bvitourism.com/activity/fallen-jerusalem-national-park |archive-date=14 July 2014 |df=dmy }}

The island provides habitat for the crested anole (Anolis cristatellus wileyae).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/firstsupplementt51978schw|title=First supplement to a check-list of West Indian amphibians and reptiles|year=1975|publisher=Carnegie Museum of Natural History|location=Pittsburgh|first1=Albert|last1=Schwartz|first2=Richard|last2=Thomas|first3=Lewis D.|last3=Ober|pages=[https://archive.org/details/firstsupplementt51978schw/page/12 12]–13|issn=0145-9031|oclc=886468503}}

File:Fallen Jerusalem, BVI.JPG is visible to the left.]]

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