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Where We Were -- and Where We Have Relocated

Office in Red Hook

From 1972 until 1999 Island Resources Foundation was based in Red Hook at the East End of St. Thomas near the ferry docks to St. John and Tortola.

We have now twice relocated the bulk of the Island Resources Foundation Library to the second floor of 123 Main Street, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands — about ten miles from our headquarters base at Vessup Bay, Red Hook, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1997, the Foundation donated its unique island-focused environmental information library to the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in Tortola, as part of an ongoing joint venture with the College. Since then the Foundation’s library has been housed at the College Annex building in Road Town (on the second floor of the concrete building in the photo, above the Road Town Bakery), pending final relocation to the College’s new Learning Resource Centre at its main Paraquita Bay campus.

 
Postcard of St. Thomas, Red Hook

Postcard copyrighted 1991 by Scenic Publishers, 4 Norre Gade, St. Thomas, VI 00802.

This is the site of the former offices of Island Resources Foundation at the northern border of Vessup Bay at the east end of St. Thomas (most recently, under the finger of the postcard provided above). From 1972 to 1983, the Foundation’s primary offices were based at the Johnny Harms Lagoon Marina at Red Hook. Harms, who is credited with first promoting sports fishing in the Virgin Islands, was long a friend and supporter of the Foundation in its earliest years and provided rent-reduced facilities for IRF at his east end marina.

 

Map of Virgin Islands

Details on the Island Systems Environmental Information Centre here.