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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.
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.).
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.
Bermuda - British Colony, Shipwrecks, Tourism: In 1511 an island named “Bermudas” was depicted on a map in Spain. The Spanish navigator Fernández de Oviedo sailed close to the islands in 1515 and attributed their discovery to his countryman Juan Bermúdez, possibly as early as 1503.
Etymology. 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. History. Discovery. First map of the islands of Bermuda in 1511, made by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera in his book Legatio Babylonica.
The story of Bermuda began approximately 30 million years ago with the formation of a cluster of volcanic seamounts, which emerged from the North Atlantic ocean as islands. These included the main Bermuda Seamount (Figure 1a).
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.
Timeline of key events in the history of Bermuda, starting from its first recording sighting and colonization to the present day.
It was originally known as the "Isle of Devils," thanks in part to its sometime stormy weather, its loud indigenous birds and its encircling treacherous ring of coral reef that bedeviled...
The Early Years. The discovery of Bermuda is attributed to the Spanish—probably the navigator Juan Bermúdez—sometime before 1511, because in that year a map published in the Legatio Babylonica included “La Bermuda” among the Atlantic islands. A little over a century later, the English staked a claim to Bermuda and began colonization.