Bermuda, officially the Bermudas or Somers Islands, is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about 1,030 kilometres (640 mi) to the west-northwest. It is about 1,373 kilometres (853 mi) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and 1,770 kilometres (1,100 mi) northeast of Miami, Florida.
Its capital city is Hamilton.
Bermuda was discovered in 1505 by Spanish sea captain Juan de Bermúdez, after whom the islands are named, who claimed it for the Spanish Empire.
Although he paid two visits to the archipelago, Bermúdez never set foot on the uninhabited islands because of the dangerous reef that surrounded most of the islands. Subsequent Spanish or other visitors are believed to have released the feral pigs that were abundant on the island when settlement began.
The archipelago was settled by England in 1609, by the Virginia Company, which had established Jamestown on the Continent two years earlier.
Administered as an extension of Virginia by the Virginia Company until 1614, and by its successor, the Somers Isles Company, from 1615 until 1684, Bermuda became a British colony following the 1707 unification of the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland to create the unified Kingdom of Great Britain.
Since Virginia's independence, Bermuda is the oldest (and since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the most populous) remaining British overseas territory. Its first capital, St George's, was established in 1612 and is the oldest continuously-inhabited English town in the Americas.
Bermuda has an affluent economy, with off-shore finance as its largest sector, followed by tourism.
In 2005 Bermuda claimed to have the world's highest GDP per capita, but these statistics are difficult to verify as Bermuda is classified as a territory of the UK rather than an independent country. It has a subtropical climate.
Bermuda makes up the easternmost point of the so-called "Bermuda Triangle," a region of sea in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels have allegedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The island is prone to severe weather and powerful hurricanes, with widespread power outages.
Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name
| 1941.01 |
18.12.1941 |
Definitives |
|
|
| 7½d |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 1953.01 |
09.11.1953 |
Definitives |
|
|
| 6d |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 1953.02 |
26.11.1953 |
Inscription ROYAL VISIT 1953 on 1953.01 |
|
|
| 6d |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 1955.01 |
16.05.1955 |
Definitives |
|
1953.01 |
| 8d |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 1956.01 |
22.06.1956 |
Overprint 50th ANNIV... on 1955.01 |
|
|
| 8d |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 1978.01 |
15.11.1978 |
Wildlife |
|
|
| 3c |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
p 14 |
| 4c |
157 |
White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus |
|
| 5c |
211 |
Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis |
|
| 8c |
233 |
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis |
|
| 5$ |
18 |
Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow |
|
| 1983.01 |
03.08.1983 |
Wildlife |
|
1978.01 |
| 3c |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
p 14x14½ |
| 1985.01 |
28.03.1985 |
Audubon |
|
|
| 12c |
36 |
Western Osprey Pandion haliaetus |
|
| 30c |
26 |
Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea |
|
| 40c |
26 |
Great Egret Ardea alba |
|
| 1.50$ |
211 |
Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis |
|
| 1995.01 |
06.02.1995 |
Decimal currency anniversary |
4v set |
|
| 2$ |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 1997.01 |
17.04.1997 |
Bird conservation |
|
|
| 30c |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 60c |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 80c |
18 |
Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow |
|
| 2.50$ |
18 |
Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow |
|
| 2001.01 |
01.02.2001 |
WWF |
|
1997.01 |
| 15c |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 15c |
18 |
Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow |
|
| 20c |
18 |
Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow |
|
| 20c |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 2005.01 |
18.08.2005 |
Habitats |
|
|
| 10c |
64 |
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres |
|
| and |
64 |
Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla |
|
| 25c |
26 |
Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis |
|
| 35c |
23 |
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus |
|
| 70c |
211 |
Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis |
|
| 85c |
78 |
Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus |
|
| 1$ |
26 |
Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea |
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