Tortola's the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. Local belief's that the name was originally given to the island by Christopher Columbus, meaning "land of the Turtle Dove". In actuality Columbus named the island Santa Ana. The Dutch settled, and dubbed it Tor Tholen (New Tholen), after a tiny island off the west coast of the Netherlands. When the British moved in they altered the name to its pres… (More on Tortola)