PO Box 3119, St. James, Barbados, W.I. Tel: 1 (246) 434 3434 E-mail: info@skyviews.com | To Navigation Bar | The British Virgin Islands History Page Columbus was not the first man to set eyes on the British Virgin Islands - Amerindians from South America were - some 2,500 years earlier. Recent archaeological studies have concluded that there were plenty of Indians living on these shores before the Europeans arrived. As many as 20,000 may have lived on the major islands, with ...