The Little Sisters is an informal name for a group of some of the smaller islands of the British Virgin Islands, south of Tortola and southwest of Virgin Gorda. These islands are also called the Southern Islands.

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Also included in the group are several smaller rocky outcroppings.

The closest thing to a formal endorsement of the term occurs in the Labour Code, 2010[1] (a British Virgin Islands statute) which includes a reference and statutory definition for the "Sister Islands", which the Code defines as meaning 'the islands of the Virgin Islands other than Tortola'.[2]

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Statute No 4 of 2010
  2. ^ The definition appears in section 3. The only time the term is used in section 70, which exempts employees on other islands from needing a doctor's certificate to validate a sick day.

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