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Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Atlantic Islands > Bermuda
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Atlantic Islands > Bermuda
Geographic Locations > Islands > Atlantic Islands > Bermuda

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Bermuda  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

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Note

  • a British colony in the North Atlantic

Scope note

  • A British colony in the western North Atlantic Ocean about 640 miles east southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It comprises a group of about 300 islands of which only about 20 are inhabited. It is called also the Bermuda Islands or the Bermudas. It was named for the Spanish explorer Juan Bermudez who visited the islands in 1515. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p140 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p61)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001605

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