The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), British West Indies (BWI), are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the Caribbean (the Turks Islands and the Caicos Islands).

Grand Turk (our port-of-call) is the largest island of the Turks Islands (but not the Caicos). It contains the territory's capital, Cockburn Town. Grand Turk is the administrative, historic, cultural, and financial center of the country, and has the second largest population of the islands at approximately 3,720 people.

It is said (though this is disputed) that Grand Turk was the landfall island of Columbus during his discovery of the New World in 1492.