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Following the 1707 unification of the parliaments of Scotland and England, which created the Kingdom of Great Britain, the islands of Bermuda became a British Crown Colony. When Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, Bermuda became the oldest remaining British colony.
Bermuda is named after the Spanish sailor Juan de Bermúdez, who discovered the islands in 1505, [ 1 ] while sailing for Spain from a provisioning voyage to Hispaniola in the ship La Garça.
In 1609 about 150 English travelers aboard the Virginia Company ship Sea Venture, en route to the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, were blown off course by a hurricane and shipwrecked at Bermuda, which they named the Somers Isles for their leader, Sir George Somers.
Geographical and historical treatment of Bermuda, self-governing British overseas territory in the western North Atlantic Ocean. It is an archipelago of 7 main islands and about 170 additional (named) islets and rocks, situated about 650 miles (1,050 km) east of Cape Hatteras (North Carolina, U.S.).
The culture of Bermuda reflects the heritage of its people, who are chiefly of Native American, African, and European descent. A small percentage of Asians also live on the island. Although Bermuda is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, it also has strong historical links with the United States.
Bermuda's first capital, the Town of St. George, was settled in 1612 and is today the oldest continually inhabited English town in the Americas. Bermuda has long figured large in Western...
As you take a walk through Bermuda’s history, you’ll cover a lot of territory: slavery and emancipation, the arrival of the British Royal Navy, the mystique of the Bermuda Triangle during the mid-20th century, and so much more – all of which shapes who we are as a country today.
While the islands off the coast of the Atlantic (not the Caribbean Sea) typically fly under the radar, the history of Bermuda is quite different. Located in a strategic shipping lane during the Age of Exploration, it was only a matter of time before a country claimed the islands now known as Bermuda for their own.
Bermuda was a tabula rasa when European explorers first set foot on the North Atlantic archipelago in 1505. No indigenous people, just colonies of shrieking birds, interrupted sporadically by violent storms.
Memorials of the discovery and early settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, 1515-1685. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.