U.S. Virgin Islands · In the atlas, not yet written up
Gibney Beach
Saint John Island · U.S. Virgin Islands
Barely written up
We hold this beach's name and position, and not much else.
Nobody has written Gibney Beach up yet, and there is no photograph of it here. If you have stood on it, you probably know more about it than this page does.
The short version, from the cited sources
Gibney Beach, or Oppenheimer Beach, is a beach on Hawksnest Bay on northern Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands. The beach's names originate from Nancy Flagg Gibney and J.
- Country
- U.S. Virgin Islands (VI)
- Region
- North America
- Administrative area
- Saint John Island
- Timezone
- America/St_Thomas
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2016-06-22
Names in the record
Gibney Beach
- Gibney's Beach
- Little Hawksnest Beach
Awaiting editorial review
Not yet recorded for this beach
- Sand color and composition
- Water and swimming character
- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
- Seasonality and crowd pattern
- Current hazards and restrictions
Source position
18.35245, -64.77653
The map uses the coordinate supplied by the cited record. Local access and water entry are not implied.
Direct provenance
Sources behind this record
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- GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗
Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02 - OpenStreetMap beach element tagsOpenStreetMap contributors ↗
Surface, lifeguard, access, wheelchair and facility tags read from the beach's own OpenStreetMap element; the per-record citation links the element.
ODbL 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04 - Wikidata beach itemsWikimedia Foundation ↗
Coordinates, administrative area, body of water, length and typed beach class read from the beach item's own statements; the per-record citation links the item.
CC0 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04 - Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗
Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04