Blowing Point, Anguilla
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Blowing Point is a
village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
and one of the fourteen Districts of
Anguilla Anguilla ( ) is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin. The terr ...
, located on the southern coast. It is home to Anguilla's ferry terminal.


Transport


Ferry Terminal

There are regular ferries from St. Martin to Anguilla providing a half hour service. It is a 20-minute crossing from Marigot to Blowing Point. Ferries commence service from 7:00 AM. There are also a charter services, from Blowing Point to Princess Juliana Airport which connect to in- and outgoing international flights. In 2007, 188,176 of the 271,959 people (both visitors and residents) entered Anguilla via the ferry terminal. This way of travel is the most common method of transport between Anguilla and St. Martin or
Sint Maarten Sint Maarten () is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of , it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the nort ...
. The exiting terminal will be redesigned and enlarged in 2021.


Demographics


Notable people

* Germain Hughes (born 1996), footballer


References


Bibliography

* Populated places in Anguilla France–United Kingdom border crossings Ferry transport in British Overseas Territories {{Anguilla-geo-stub