Peter Island is a 720 hectare (1,779 acre) private island located in
the British Virgin Islands (BVI). It is about 5.2 miles south-west (195 degrees
true) from Road Harbour (Road Town), Tortola. The island was named after Pieter
Adriensen (nicknamed "The Commander") who was the brother of Abraham
Adriensen, Patron of Tortola under the Dutch West India Company in the early
17th century. Pieter Adriensen and Joost van Dyk built a fort and slave pens at
Great Harbour on Peter Island to facilitate privateering and the nascent trade
in slaves from Angola
