Nonsuch Summer: The true story of a child growing up on an island in Bermuda

Hi we are Vanessa, Amie, and Kat. A bus from the aquarium came to pick us up from BIOS and we were on our way. Our first stop was the tank with the green sea turtles. There were four turtles the size of a round coffee table. After we left the turtle pool, we headed to the entrance of the aquarium. In the aquarium, there was a North Rock exhibit with fish found at North Rock. We then headed outside to the zoo portion of BAMZ. Our first stop led us to the seal pool. There we got to see them being fed and trained.

They were all chubby, cute, and loved to play around for a snack. We next went into a room with a touch pool where you could pick up sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and hermit crabs. Our favorite exhibits were the otters, the seals, and the bear cats. We went to lunch, saw Dr. After getting our stuff ready, we headed into Dr.

There, we learned about her experiments with sea urchins and their cells. After that we headed to the dock to sail to North Rock. North Rock is a huge coral reef found in Bermuda. The boat ride there was a little rocky, but a lot of fun. When we got there we started off by all jumping into the water with our swim partners. There were many different types of fish and coral there.

Every once in a while, the waves would crash over our snorkels causing us to get salt water in our mouths. After a long day of looking at animals and snorkeling near coral reefs, we headed back to BIOS. We had such a fun day today and are looking forward to what lies in store for tomorrow!

Tuesday, May 19, Josh, Jake, and Sam. Day 3 May 18 th , Other than the weather, we had a fine day today. Did I mention that is was a chilly swim into the shore before we cold tour? Back to BIOS for lunch and burgers! It is still there, in all its glory, cannon and all. I think Ashley will have some good pictures for you.

Nearby, at Fort St. Catherine beach, we now started our low-tide collecting. Here we collected brittle stars, sea cucumbers, crabs, small fish, and the prize. We will bring them all back to BIOS for observation. All of us are working very hard to complete our Whalebone Bay project which are due on Thursday. Janelle the new chef prepared a wonderful lamb meal for all of us for dinner, but now we must go back to our project work.

We are also in the lab looking at our organisms. The bowl finishes up he day, and here are the new totals: Cahow can u catch us Monday, May 18, Attention Mrs. Chatterton's 3rd grade class! We found this beautiful baby octopus while low tide collecting and would love for you to name it for us. Day 2 May 17 th It is bout 6: We arrived a few moments before scheduled yesterday. Our transport to BIOS from the airport was uneventful.

After a quick lunch, we bused into St. The students were placed in five groups of four and were sent on their way to find historical clues. They were given one hour to complete their tasks. Unfortunately, there was a grand wedding in town for a local couple. Upon conclusion of the hunt, we bussed back to BIOS for a quick tour, quick swim and a very needed shower. That evening, it was great to see Helena again.

She is the BIOS chef, and a good friend. She had a great dinner of spaghetti, garlic bread and apple pie, which was quickly devoured by our crew. Hopefully, you will be able to read them upon our return. We spent the next hour walking around the BIOS grounds and learning about the 25 various species of endemic, native, or introduced plants. Finally, the students were given a quiz by Mr. Augustyn, and then we held a quick medical call. Only two needed any assistance and neither was anything to speak of. It was then off to bed around 9: All in all, a long but very good first day!

Today went very well so far. Whalebone Bay is our study site for the entire day. This is the day for the environmental study and requires a very physical presence. The group walked out to the bay and arrived, after an historical narration of the route, around 9: We quickly broke into groups and began out data collecting.

There was a mapping group, weather group, transect group and the quadrat group.

I would imagine that the student blog today will describe their functions. During the day we also did an orienteering contest and I believe they all really liked it! Well, except for the prickly-pear incident. After arriving back at BIOS, everyone took a well-needed shower. And we actually had hot water today! We all headed down to Hanson Hall, but Abby accidentally opened a door and triggered the fire alarm!

No worries, we just moved quickly to another location and a BIOS staff shut it off and re-set it. The new chef, Janelle, is a French-trained chef and her breakfast this morning was excellent. We are all hoping for a great dinner as well. Talk to you later. Bermuda Bowl scores after round 1: Cahow Could U Beat Us Sunday, May 17, Lexie, Matt, and Melina.

The day started off with a nice selection of breakfast foods. After we ate we packed our lunches, and started a long walk to Whalebone Bay. The lucky weather group had to take a taxi to Whalebone Bay since they had to get data collections earlier. Argenta was talking about how the English shot cannons at Spanish invaders, a cruise ship went by and we pretended it was an a Spaniard. When we got to Whalebone Bay the quadrate, transect, weather, and mapping groups went their separate ways and started collecting data.

The transect group started to measure the elevation of the land, the line running from the ocean inland. Then the quadrate group started drawing what they saw in the foot by foot square along the 37 meter line the transect group marked. Meanwhile the weather group measured the oxygen, salt and pH percentage of hydrogen in the water of the water. The mapping group drew an outline of Whalebone Bay, the vegetation of the land, landforms, and where fish were in the water.

We were finally able to jump in the bright clear blue water and started snorkeling after eating lunch. We were excited to to see the fish we had done for our fish projects. Sea Cucumbers littered the bottom of the sea floor. It was cool seeing the invertebrates we had researched for our power points. We ate dinner at BIOS and worked on group projects.

Looking forward to going to Nonsuch Island tomorrow! Saturday, May 16, Jarod, Ellie, and Abby. Thanks for breakfast group! Day 1 May 16, 8: Welcome to the Vernon Bermuda Workshop: A course in sub-tropical island ecology. There are six adult educators: This program would not be possible without the support of the Vernon Board of Education, The administration at both VCMS and RHS, the staff and educators in the Vernon system, and most importantly, the parents of each student.

Each student has worked very hard to get here, and now it is time for the real adventure to begin! I would also like to specifically cite two groups of Vernon students that have had an impact on this program. The first is Mrs. They will also be involved with some long-distance learning during our stay at BIOS. The second group is very special to me. They are the students from the Vernon Bermuda Workshop who showed up this morning at 6: Thanks so much for being there for us!

One of the special events to unfold during the coming week is the Bermuda Bowl. The question topics are: Here are the teams: I will try to keep you updated with the scores. The first Bowl is on Sunday evening, so the results should be up by Monday Afternoon. Here is an update on the trip so far. We loaded our luggage, took a quick group picture, and sped on to Logan in record time.

JetBlue was fantastic and got our luggage processed quickly, and we got our first accolades from them. Construction of the RN Hospital near the Dockyard, in the same pre-fabricated manner as the later Commissioner's House, initially as a Quarantine unit. When added to substantially later, in addition to cast iron structural features, such as veranda columns, floor joists, and possibly cast and wrought iron roof trusses, some of the stonework for the building was the hard local limestone.

A surgeon, doctors and medical staff were appointed and sent by the Royal Navy. During World War 2, the Royal Naval Hospital, Bermuda, treated and often saved the lives of many brought in from torpedoed ships. The Royal Navy left in s. That hospital building ended its life as an egg farm, then finally was deliberately burnt to the ground by the Fire Department in November Part of it became the site for Lefroy House, for senior citizens.

Photographs by Keith A. An official from the government of South Africa visited here in Mbeki was in Bermuda for secret talks with South African political opponents in and had traveled from his exile base in Tanzania. On May 1, , Dr. Her family was actively involved in the Boer War. Prominent Bermudian businesspeople have private cottages or land on the island. With several lovely, often deserted, beaches.

Owned and operated by a division of the Bermuda Government. At various times later, it was also called Peniston's, Pennistones and Pennystones after Anthony of that name who came to Bermuda from Saffron Walden, Essex, England and lived here. It and nearby Smith's Island were whaling centers. This island's principal feature is massive Fort Cunningham. A much older fort was here in , another battery was constructed in It seems likely that the rocks on which the lower battery stood were undermined by the constant pounding of the waves, particularly in the winter.

It took several years to complete the repairs on both Paget and nearby Smith's Forts, at great cost. In so many prisoners-of-war were brought in by Bermudian privateers that the only place available to accommodate them was Paget Fort. They were guarded by locally-quartered troops and had a food allowance of one shilling a day.

More construction took place in the s. In , Major Andrew Durnford, Royal Engineer, re-built a part of the sea battery at Paget Fort, but it was destroyed in January by a violent gale. It was called Upper Paget to distinguish it from the original fortification. Hinson was a complex, eccentric and wealthy man, a mariner, shipbuilder, whaler and farmer.

On Paget Island he added orchards, created pastures and cultivated planting land. He was also said to have planned to catch whales in an unusual way. He had been impressed by the efforts in of an American Zephaniah Pinkham who had arrived in Bermuda to teach locals how to resurrect the once-famous local whaling industry by applying modern methods including cutting up whale blubber with spades to increase profit and reduce waste.

He ordered and received a huge whale net from England made out of stout cordage. One evening he planted it in the sea across the Narrows Channel leading to Murray's Anchorage. Instead of catching a whale he caught a French brig-of-war trying to sneak a look at Bermuda. He made a good profit from that transaction. But when his mother and eldest son died on Paget Island he lost interest in Paget Island, bought property in Salt Kettle, Paget on the main island and lived there until his death in , after which his estate that then still included Paget Island was offered for sale.

The fort was replaced in the early 's. It was much altered beginning in to contain two iron fronts instead of masonry walls. Because Captain Thomas Cunningham, Royal Engineers, after proposing its creation earlier, supervised the commencement of the re-building by Royal Engineers of massive Fort Cunningham on Paget Island, the fort was named after him. Known originally as "Gibraltar shields," only in Bermuda were they made into continuous straight walls, one for five guns and one for two.

Seven huge guns for the shields were found in , two being of only six known examples to have survived anywhere of the famous British Army ton, By Paget Island had become derelict. It was later acquired by the UK's War Department. During World War 2, when the island was still owned by the UK's War Department, it was a prisoner of war camp for some Germans or Austrians - only one of whom, Charles Koeppel, 74 years old in the year , has survived.

He was born in the USA but his parents were Austrian. His family tried to leave New York for Europe in but were captured and interned. In the s, the island was the base for Bermuda's Junior Training School, for young severe delinquents, based on the concept of a British Borstal, Unfortunately, most tourists cannot visit Paget Island because there is no regular scheduled boat service.

The fort, in Bermuda Government hands, has been allowed to deteriorate. With permission in advance directly from the Bermuda Government's Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation, local and overseas groups camp on the 20 acre campground site each year, only one group at a time with a maximum of 70 campers, at a local cost and more than double the cost for non-Bermudian campers. To service these two functions, the island has many outbuildings for different purposes. There is also a sports playing field.

A Bermuda Government-operated boat visits at fixed times from the Town of St. George to bring supplies to campers and, by appointment and a fee, other visitors. As noted in the newspaper, Kimberley Jackson, programme manager for Mirrors, said: It makes sense to have all the key partners at the table to develop the long-term restoration plan.

The philistines among us will doubtless complain about the project, failing to understand the value to our essential tourism economy of such monuments, which, being unique, are one of the main reasons why the discerning visitor wishes to visit Bermuda or any other destination with cultural and heritage treasures.

Most such visitors stay in land-based accommodation, which remains the foundation of the tourism economy, despite the numbers of arrivals by sea. It is the discerning hotel and guesthouse visitor that has the spending power to continue to fund our lifestyle, as they have done for over a century. Included in such visitors are the British and United States military that, up until the end of the Cold War in , pumped billions into Bermuda, leaving behind monuments like Fort Cunningham that now allow us to make even more money off the military by exploiting such sites for the cultural tourism trade.

The booklet would not have happened without the passion that American Terry McGovern and his family have had for Bermuda over a generation. Terry was heartened to hear during the recent launch of the volume that the Mirrors group had formed a battalion of volunteers to assault the invasion of Fort Cunningham, and indeed Paget Island, by invasive and destructive trees.

So as the old mariner would say at the start of a long voyage: Fort Cunningham from the air, artist impression of what it once looked like. Young people will continue a project to restore a heritage spot, social development minister Zane DeSilva announced. It is sponsored by XL Catlin.

Participants will return at 4pm. It is available to young people aged 14 to 16, accompanied by an adult, and people aged 17 and older. Young people will be able to acquire community service hours. For more information, contact Jeanene Todd at the Mirrors office on or jvtodd gov. Pear Harrington Sound, Hamilton Parish. Pearl Great Sound, Warwick Parish. Peggy's Off Smith's, St. Previously known as Crumb, and Brush or Crumb-Brush.

So-called for its similarity to a small, curved table brush used to sweep crumbs from a Victorian-era table. Previous owners include the one-time Huguenot Perot family who emigrated to Bermuda in the late 18th century shortly after the French Revolution William Perot later became Bermuda's first Postmaster General and his stamps earned Bermuda a unique place in philatelic history ; Miss Claudia Darrell, owner and operator of Bermuda's Waterlot Inn, later bought by Daniel Ludwig and then the Southampton Princess Hotel; Mrs. The island was later owned for 14 years by billionaire Marion Cargill MacMillan.

Twenty three acres on the western one third of the island are now a recreational area for Bermuda youth, owned jointly by the Bermuda Government and the Bermuda National Trust. It comes under the National Parks Act Thanks to local residents Mr.

Robert Basist, the Trust was able to reforest certain areas it owns of the island with cedar trees. The farm, earmarked for the site of a former cottage, is described as a pilot scheme to test the viability of the farming method in Bermuda. Aquaponic farms blend conventional aquaculture, the farming of marine animals like fish or prawns, with hydroponics, which uses water to grow plants.

If we achieve success and can sign a long-term lease, we will apply for commercial status. Concerns, however were raised about who would have legislative oversight over aquaponic farms. The officers said that if amendments were made, it would be likely that freshwater fish and the agricultural elements would be under the Board of Agriculture, while saltwater fish would fall under the mandate of the Marine Resources Board. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources would be interested in operational matters, while the Department of Environmental Health would be involved in the sale of any products produced.

He will speak on the most recent digs on the island, including progress on the Field School. A maximum of 40 people will spend the afternoon exploring the island with Mr Jarvis. Tickets can be obtained by calling or e-mailing rshastri bnt. The team led by Michael Jarvis from the University of Rochester have spent the last five weeks excavating tonnes of soil as they explore sites dating back to the early s.

A lot more English ceramics have been uncovered that backs up our belief of its origins. The people living in this house probably arrived in Bermuda in the first three years after the Sea Venture. We also found a water cistern with a plaster lining that would have been used to capture rain water off the thatched roof.

Also what is significant is that we have not found any glass or nails, which further backs up that this humble structure had open windows and doors and was held together with wooden pegs. Even more significantly we have found evidence of what the earliest settlers used as infill in the walls. From our discoveries this year it would seem that they were using liquid mortar right from the earliest periods which provides invaluable information about how the earliest homes were built. Over the last five weeks Dr Jarvis and his team have also carried out further excavation of two other sites on the island called the Cave Site and Small Pox Bay.

As for Small Pox Bay it would seem this is not your typical military site just inhabited by soldiers. They hope to return to Bermuda again next year to continue their work into one of the most untouched areas of land on the Island. We have also had 15 Bermudian volunteers involved in the project which has been good to see. We very much appreciate their efforts and the efforts of everyone especially the National Trust who have made this project possible.

Last year the team made a series of breakthrough discoveries during the dig that helped them to date the old property, which has an oven cut into the rock. This summer they will be going deeper in the hope of discovering animal bones and other artifacts that will provide clues about who lived there and when. There is then evidence of it being occupied by Native Americans between and before the site was abandoned.

In the 19th century quarrying dumped a tonne of rubble on the site and preserved it. We hope that by further excavating the site we will find out a lot more about who was there and what they were doing there as well as some valuable artifacts. This site is one of the first domestic sites to be found and studied in Bermuda. These were the very early settlers with perhaps a tobacco farm. We hope we can come back with the evidence to help prove that to scholars. They also plan to return to Smallpox Bay, where old military buttons from the 19th century were found last year, and the new Cave Site.

It does not figure on any of the old maps and was discovered quite by accident. Mr Jarvis is looking for volunteers to help with the work this summer.

If you are interested contact him at Michael. Artex employees and their family members helped remove invasive Brazilian pepper trees from Trunk Island. The island in Harrington Sound, owned by the Bermuda Zoological Society, is used for overnight camps, educational workshops and nature encounters. Last week, a team of 17 people from Artex culled and removed the invasive trees to help restore of the island to its native habitat. Colin Brown, president of the BZS, said: It is with this kind of support that we can continue to work towards our goal of returning the island to its native and endemic state, in order to preserve it for future generations.

The conservation of our island and the ability to teach both children and adults to understand and respect what makes us unique is a privilege. Royal Gazette photos, White's Island. Originally Hunt's from the family that once owned many shares in old Bermuda. In the middle of Hamilton Harbor, now the property of the Corporation of Hamilton, which rents out the home on the island. Few Bermuda islands have had a more varied history. In the closing months of World War 1 it was sub-leased to the United States Navy as an operating base for U boat chasers, with a supply station on nearby Agar's Island.

An oil painting of the Stars and Stripes on the island's flag pole was painted then by a well known local artist. The lease lapsed at the end of the war. Has long been a campsite, with permission in advance directly from the Bermuda Government's Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation. Has a small beach. Also from where fireworks are let off periodically, after permission from Government. Or they were demolished to make way for them. Their military bases have since closed and are being converted to civilian commercial use.

Bermuda Somer's Isles , near the Gulf Stream in the northwest Atlantic, with about 50 inches of rain annually. NOT in the Caribbean but miles north of it. Bermuda is a nominal British territory - nominal because despite being British it is self-governing internally, makes all its own laws and does not use any from the United Kingdom.

It treats everyone - including the British - not born in Bermuda with a Bermudian parent, or without Bermudian status obtained prior to or by marriage after 10 years of marriage to the same Bermudian and living with the spouse , as a foreigner. Bermuda is one of the oldest, smallest but most populated of the British Overseas Territories - and oldest British Commonwealth member not shown by name but via Great Britain.

The whole of Bermuda is tiny - with a land area of only 21 square miles or 56 square kilometers. It includes all the islands mentioned below. Residents and visitors travel from one end to the other in just over an hour and from north to south in 10 to 15 minutes. Bermuda is said to have begun some million year ago as a volcanic mountain, with the volcanoes having disappeared 70 million or so years ago. Oceanographers say the Bermuda Rise either juts up from the deep Atlantic Ocean floor in the form of three steep-sided mountains, the largest of which supports the Bermuda today, on the southern margin of a shallow water platform, with Challenger and Argus or Plantagenet Banks to the southwest, or that the Bermuda Rise is five mountains including the more distant Bowditch and Muir Seamounts the furthest of which is about miles to the northeast.

George's Parish in Pembroke Parish in St. Agar's Originally 4 acres, is yards by sea from the exclusive area of Point Shares, in Pembroke Parish. James Martin founded the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford in to foster and facilitate innovative, interdisciplinary research on the problems, dangers and opportunities of the near future. Martin is the largest individual benefactor to the University of Oxford in its year history. Martin is renowned for his electrifying lectures about the future.

Martin was a pioneer in the automation of software development, and was ranked 4th in Computer World's 25th Anniversary Edition's most influential people in computer technology. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the U. Martin had honorary doctorates from all six continents. Argus 39 miles southwest of Bermuda. Man made by the USA in to spy on Soviet submarines in the Atlantic and once laced with devices to track their every movement.

Banjo Also known as Bartram's or Mullet. Born in Lincolnshire in , Bartrum came here as a member of the British Army 37th Regiment of Foot in , purchased his discharge in and resided at Ferry Reach until his death in He became famous for his book in called The Cage Birds of Bermuda. Bay 1 acre, yards off Bailey's Bay, picturesque, accessible. Beta Great Sound, Warwick Parish. Ideal weekend retreat, zoned to preserve the environment and natural habitat. But as an amenity this private island will provide hours of enjoyment for the owner who is a boater or environmentalist or someone who just wishes a convenient escape from the mainland.

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Boat Rock See Halfway Rock. Also Gate's and Yates. One of the six principal islands. The increased workload at HMS Malabar caused problems due to the limited space available. With so many of the locally-based or in-transit Royal Navy warships carrying catapult-launched seaplanes such as the Hawker Osprey, Fairey Seafox and Supermarine Walrus seaplanes, the need for prompt, efficient and spacious aircraft maintenance was a high priority.

Thus, the new station was built. It had two good-size hangers and launching ramps on either side of the island and they allowed continuous operation in any wind direction. With the Battle of the Atlantic over, the station was reduced to care and maintenance status in Some remnants still survive.

The ferry service to and from here finally ceased in May The nearest surviving one is Watford Bridge. Bus routes 7 Dockyard and 8 stop in the immediate area. Part of the Castle Group. Site of historic Southampton fort shown below. Southampton Fort, approved in , completed in Bremen 0. Privately owned by Mona Walsh, grand-daughter of the late Howard E. Smith who previously owned it. It is named from when settlers set fire to vegetation to get rid of rats going from island to island. Also Moses, Murderer's, Skeeter's.

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Not accessible by ferry, only to those with a boat. Photo by Keith A. There was once a local family called Ely, derived from the UK cathedral. It became quite a common surname for people once from that region, including colonists to North America and beyond. Charles' Old Castle 3. The ancient English forts on these Castle Islands are without parallel in North America, evidence of the beginning of the coastal defense system of the overseas British Empire. West of Spanish Point, Pembroke Parish.

Coney A Bermuda National Park. Named after the coney fish Cephalopholis fulva once prominent around here. It is located off the southwest tip of St. It has an interesting, undeveloped park and beaches, also a noisy motor cycle track. Its northernmost tip is called North Point and was the western terminus of a railway bridge that once ran to Ferry Reach.

The public beaches are in the Department of Environmental Protection but are frequently littered with bottles, plastics, wood and more. Camping was once a popular seasonal event but is no longer allowed, for reforestation. Now joined since to and part of St. David's Island in St. So-called after a William Cooper from London, one of the original colonists in In it was claimed by Christopher Carter in payment for his share of ambergris forfeited to the Bermuda Company.

He spent years there digging in vain for what he thought was buried treasure. In , Governor Moore had built the Pembroke Fort at the south eastern end. It had two cannons mounted on it. Then, both all of Cooper's Island and much of St. Personnel from NASA used the beaches. Crawl Southeast of Hospital, Sandys Parish. Cross Dockyard, Sandys Parish. Cross Island, Bermuda - home of the 35th America's Cup Provides economic benefits to Bermuda Environmental. Is sensitive to the environment, surrounding historical significance and marine habitats Financial.

Is a good fit for the location, physical site, and exposure to weather and elements Once that is accomplished, we will pass our short listed recommendations to the Wedco board, which will then review and shortlist the ideas to form part of a public request for proposal process. Crow Hungry Bay, Paget Parish. Aquatic life takes refuge here and during storms or hurricanes small boats take shelter to leeward.

Epsilon Small, south west of Port's. Eta Not accessible by ferry, only by boat. During the Boer War, prisoners of war on work parties crossed from Port's to Long and the other way around via a wooden footbridge on this island. Also known as Sin, Hamilton Harbour. George's Island and north of Coney Island, St.

It is named after the horse ferry that used to come here until the late 19th century. It was then the only connection between St. George's Island and Main Island. A bridge connects the island with Ferry Point behind it. Owned and lived on by Curt Engelhorn, the German billionaire.

A mere dot, South of Nelly Island. Gibbet Sometimes called Gallows or Gibbet's. They are not accessible to the general public except by water, up to the high tide mark. The 10 and 11 buses stop on either side of the North Shore Road nearby. They guard the entrance to Flatts Inlet. Both were once sites for executions of witches by burning at the stake and felons by hanging, via a gibbet. The bare pole is not an old gallows but an old standard for a navigation light.

One hanging was in , a slave from New England, Indian John. He was the property of William Maddigan who then lived at Orange Grove not far away in the same parish. Indian John escaped, tried to set fire to the house, seized a pistol and intended to shoot every member of the family, but was captured. He was sentenced by Governor Florentius Seymour to be executed, have his head cut off and be quartered and the head and quarters put on poles for all to see. Another slave was hung in after being convicted of murder.

Goat 1 Fairylands Creek, Pembroke Parish. Near Stipple Island and like it a nature reserve. Goose and neighboring bigger Bird Islands Governor's 1-acre island in St. George's Harbor, near St.

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Its old ruined fort, Smith's Fort see below , was once the dominant feature. It was named for Governor Richard Moore who in began the fort as a way to command the vulnerable but then strategically important channel nearby. By the time Moore's term ended, 11 guns were in the fort. One of the less inaccessible forts but historically important. Grace Also known as Robbins, 5. Owned by Bermudian millionaire and philanthropist Mr. Birds such as the blue heron make it their home. Green Continuation of Nonsuch, St. Halfway Rock Also Boat Rock.

A limestone stack just in Smith's Parish, slightly west of Hamilton Parish. It was unmanned but important before the Military Road permitted east-west land travel. It was a military bearing mark on the water route between the two important fortifications. Haggis South of Riddell's, Southampton Parish. Once used for the study of the gibbons species of monkey. A tribe of gibbons was introduced for research. Originally Elizabeth's or Tatem. It was re-named after the Royal Navy bought it in It is not a National Park because it is privately owned by a family trust headed by William Cox.

It's not easily seen in the Great Sound because it is the most easterly of the large group of islands stretching across the center, well hidden behind Darrell's, Burt's, Delta, Gamma, and Beta Islands. It was a Boer War prisoner of war camp from to It housed as many as 1, prisoners in bell tents.

There is no ferry service nor public access. But there are local cruises there several days a week with an entertainment package. Planning permission has been sought for lodge facilities. With a campsite operated by and requiring the permission well in advance of the Bermuda Government's Department of the Environment Parks. Now used by Cub Scouts. In October a skeleton was found buried there. It may have been that of Gunner Thomas Squires. In , on September 3 , then based with a field battery on Hen Island, he was injured during a storm on the island and subsequently died from those injuries.

It is believed he was buried on the island.

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Higg's 5 acres, St. Reduced to help create the Town Cut. Hinson's Also known in the past as Brown's or Godet's. One of the largest in the Great Sound, closer to the Warwick shore than the Paget shore so it belongs here technically even if in Paget Parish. It has a convoluted history in various earlier names, then known as Brown's Island and Godet's Island. It was a Boer War prisoner of war camp from to , mostly for Boer teenagers. Now it is an exclusive island - and a private club - for the wealthy, with a request ferry stop on the Warwick service for residents to get to the city of Hamilton and back.

Most homes have their own water frontage or private docks or moorings. There are no private automobiles on the island. Idot Near Nonsuch, St.

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Iota Great Sound, with a small landing dock, Southampton Parish. In the Great Sound, Sandys Parish. One of the six principal Bermuda islands. It is the narrow serrated island that pushes out into the Atlantic at the extreme north west of Bermuda. Also has Ireland Point and Ireland Narrows, both also after the original owner. It has a completely separate history from the rest of Bermuda. It is historically important. It was why the original name was Flemish Hill. The captain of the ship had the very English name of Powell and was a notorious Caribbean pirate.

The buccaneer ship then had legal status as a privateer. It had sailed against the Spanish under a Letter of Marque by the Dutch prince Maurice of Orange, so was technically not a Flemish ship but a Dutch one. It was from there that Powell and his men tried to build a new ship. But the one that eventually got built at Gibb's Hill instead from caused the plans for this one to be scrapped. Until it became a major Royal Navy base in the 18th century, there were no roads and few inhabitants.

Because there was a fear of leprosy, all those leaving there had to leave this jungle island of cedar and swine and wooden houses thatched with palmetto before the Royal Navy started moving in properly from , from which point the island was destined to become joined to the mainland instead of staying an island. Kappa Great Sound, Warwick Parish. Lambda Great Sound, north west of Hawkin's and between it and Omega. Once a British Army military burial ground for yellow fever victims it later became a prisoner of war Island Camp during the Boer War in to Its 1, involuntary inhabitants shipped to Bermuda from South Africa to isolate them from their homeland included Generals of the Boer Army.

There's a poignant stone memorial to them this island where 40 died and were buried. Main 14 x 1. Locale of Bermuda's City of Hamilton. Has never been owned by just one person. At one point, Mark Twain during his Bermuda sojourns, rented a home near the city. Malabar North of Boaz, Sandys Parish. A large double island, between Hinson's and Long Islands. Its two parts are linked by a narrow isthmus. It was one of the islands purchased in by the British Admiralty for the Royal Navy.

Now owned by Bermuda-based businessman Peter Green. Morgan's Ely's Harbour, Sandys Parish. Nelly Great Sound, south of Hawkin's and adjacent to Long. Nonsuch An old English name, transplanted by first settlers, after a former Royal palace in Surry, England. Castle Harbor, west of Cooper's Island, south of St. It has small, pristine, untouched beaches and a fresh-water marsh. Permission is needed to visit. Its trees are mostly Olivewood, Palm, Bermuda Cedar and casuarina. Its main occupants are the cahow bird but no nests , butterflies, skinks, silk spiders and the longtail bird.

It was abandoned for 12 years. In , it was the site of the rediscovery of the Bermuda petrel or cahow, endemic Pterodroma cahow thought to have been extinct for over years. The Cahow project was begun here by Dr. The entire island was acquired by the Bermuda Government in , as part of its nature reserve, bird and wildlife system, through funds donated by the New York Zoological Society. Now the Nonsuch Island Nature Reserve is a living museum, a re-creation of Bermuda's native flora and fauna, of huge ecological importance.

There is also a week-long Nonsuch Island Natural History Camp every year usually in June for local high school students, at the nature reserve. Students camp out under the stars, sleep on lilos or camp beds, bathe with solar showers or cold water from a bucket. The camp, offers students aged 15 to 18 a unique opportunity for hands-on learning about natural history from local experts. The shipwreck on the north edge of the island is one of the only shipwrecks accessible to snorkelers rather than scuba divers, and interesting to explore.

North Rock In , Lieutenant Thomas Hurd RN made the earliest detailed record of this the northernmost point of Bermuda, and the chart contained a proposal for the building of a lighthouse and gun battery on the platform of reefs. It also had a vignette of the six main pinnacles, of which only one is now extant. What happened to the others is not readily known, though hearsay suggests they may have been used as targets for modern artillery practice.

Hurd spent almost a decade in Bermuda waters charting the extensive reefs and plotting the channels through them, including the only major one for large ships, off the east end of St. His work set new standards for such charts and he was appointed the second Hydrographer to the Royal Navy in At his death in , Francis Beaufort, who invented the wind force scale for indicating wind velocity for shipping, succeeded him in that office.

Just to the east of North Rock, a channel to the open sea is defined to the east by the Great Breaker, which always breaks, and therefore around which the ocean constantly heaves. That channel was used to good effect by the Royal Navy fleet when it departed for America during the War of Heyl to make an expedition to North Rock to photograph the pinnacles. Trench RA, and a group of friends all went on the adventure. As the "wet-plate process" was then in use, Heyl had to take his chemicals and a tent to develop the photographs immediately, as so required by that process.

The tent-darkroom and the camera were set up on the eastern perimeter of the North Rock boiler and the resulting images captured the site on film, possibly for the first time. Off northern shore of Main, it remains one of the few places of "silence and solitude" in Bermuda, free as it is from any taint of traffic except the occasional motor fishing boat. Visually, its collection of limestone pinnacles - once one of Bermuda's greatest geological monuments-is marred by the concrete tub that is the foundation for the present North Rock Beacon.

Only one of the pinnacles still survives to its original pre-settlement of Bermuda height. What has not changed for many millennia is the ocean, which attacks and retreats from this obstruction in its path, some nine miles north of Flatts Village, with majestic surges of green water and surf.

In winter, the ocean breaks massively over these coral fortifications. Ordnance Island The only island in the old town, this one is 1. There were once several islands here. The present island incorporates what was Ducking Stool, Frazer's and Gallows. One stored munitions for the British Army and Royal Navy. Another was where people convicted of capital crimes or witchcraft were hanged. It is now permanently connected to St. George's Island by a bridge so cunningly designed that it does not seem to be a bridge at all. Cruise ships berth here.

Several of the most prominent attractions of the town are located here or nearby. Today, the island has a small park for choice views, a statue of Admiral Sir George Somers who founded the town in , and one of the two cruise ship berths. Oswego Also known as Great, 2. Paget Paget Island location St. South of Long Island, Great Sound. In , after yellow fever first arrived from the Caribbean and killed people - 10 percent of the entire population at that time - this was the first island used to isolate them after their pets were killed.

Yellow fever came to the colony many times. A yellow fever cemetery is still here. Prisoners of war were held in isolation here during the War of to , Boer War of to and from , August 4 when WW1 was declared , there were three German nationals living in Bermuda. They were arrested and interned for four years on Ports Island, along with 58 German merchant seamen who were working on various ships on the island.

Ports Island was the logical choice for their confinement with its hospital buildings constructed in for incoming Boer War prisoners and used as such until The prisoners, all civilian, no military, grew vegetables to supplement their diet and spent most of their time making souvenirs which were sold locally. Some were boxes but most were curios associated with the sea. Any with serious illnesses were sent to the British Army's military hospital at Prospect. On Ports Island, most of the Germans were housed in a compound consisting of officers quarters, mess and kitchen, with similar but more basic accommodations for other ranks.

Some elected to live in bell tents. With a campsite , permission in advance directly from the Bermuda Government's Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation. Only one group at a time. Pudding Small and barren. South of Stocks Harbor and west of St. Its position saved it from destruction when the USA military bases were built from This was when it once again got the unofficial name of " Grog Island" - from the fact that a lot of drinking went on here, as it used to years earlier.