Grand Turk is an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory, tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies. It is the largest island in the Turks Islands with 18 km2 (6.9 sq mi). Grand Turk contains the territory's capital, Cockburn Town, and the JAGS McCartney International Airport. The island is the administrative, historic, cultural and financial centre of the territory and has the second-largest population of the islands at approximately 4,831 people in 2012.
Grand Turk as seen from the air, from midway on the island and looking south. The large reddish area is a remnant salina, a local name for the artificial ponds used to extract salt from sea water through evaporation.
Grand Turk's lighthouse, on the northeastern tip of the island
Looking north along Cockburn Town Beach, near the south end of Duke St.
Replica of the Friendship 7
The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies. They are known primarily for tourism and as an offshore financial centre. The resident population in 2023 was estimated by The World Factbook at 59,367, making it the third-largest of the British overseas territories by population. However, according to a Department of Statistics estimate in 2022, the population was 47,720.
Raking salt on a 1938 postage stamp of the islands
The 1852 lighthouse on Grand Turk
Humpback whale breaching off South Caicos
A blue tang and a squirrelfish in Princess Alexandra Land and Sea National Park, Providenciales
