Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) like this hurricane. Necker and the whole area have been completely and utterly devastated". By April 2018, most of the damaged structures had been rebuilt. Richard Branson was made aware that some of the islands in the British Virgin Islands were for sale in 1978. Branson soon after went to the British Virgin Islands for a holiday to investigate the prospective real estate. On first observing the islands, he envisioned using them to put up rock stars for his record label. Upon arrival, they were given a luxury villa and travelled around islands for sale by helicopter. The final island
Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) Island and also Mosquito Island (sometimes spelled Moskito Island), which is also owned by Branson. The British Virgin Islands (BVI) are a group of islands about south-east of Miami, Florida, due east of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and about north-west of St. Barts. The island was named after the 17th-century Dutch squadron commander Johannes de Neckere, although it remained uninhabited until the late 20th century. In 1965, the photographer Don McCullin and journalist Andrew Alexander, spent 15 days on the island at the behest of "The Daily Telegraph" newspaper for which they worked. The magazine editor had hoped that they