South Shore, Bermuda - Palm Grove Gardens - postcard c.1960s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Palm Grove Gardens, South Shore, Bermuda
• Publisher:  A. J. Gorham Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
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Bermuda /b?r'mju?d?/, in full The Islands of Bermuda, also referred to as the Bermudas or the Somers Isles,^[6][7][8][9] 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 1,239 kilometres (770 mi) south of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, and 1,770 kilometres (1,100 mi) northeast of Miami. Its capital city is Hamilton.

Bermuda was discovered in 1505 by Spanish sea captain Juan de Bermúdez, after whom the islands are named. He claimed the apparently uninhabited islands for the Spanish Empire. Although he paid two visits to the archipelago, Bermúdez never landed on the islands because he did not want to risk crossing over the dangerous reef surrounding them. Subsequent Spanish or other visitors are believed to have released the feral pigs that were abundant on the island when European settlement began. In 1609, the Virginia Company, which had established Virginia and Jamestown on the American continent two years earlier, established a settlement, founded in the aftermath of a hurricane, when the crew of the sinking Sea Venture steered it on the reef so they could get ashore.

It was first administered as an extension of Virginia by the Company until 1614, before its successor, the Somers Isles Company, took over until 1684. At that time, the company's charter was revoked and the Crown took over administration. The islands became a British colony following the 1707 unification of the parliaments of Scotland and England, which created the Kingdom of Great Britain. After Newfoundland became part of Canada in 1949, Bermuda became 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. It is the oldest continuously inhabited English town in the New World.^[10]

Bermuda's economy is based on offshore insurance and reinsurance, and tourism; the two largest economic sectors.^[10][11] Bermuda had one of the world's highest GDP per capita for most of the 20th century^{[citation needed]} and several years beyond. Recently, its economic status has been affected by the global recession. It has a subtropical climate.^[12] Bermuda is the northernmost point of the so-called Bermuda Triangle, a region of sea in which, according to legend, a number of aircraft and surface vessels have disappeared under supposedly unexplained or mysterious circumstances. The island is in the hurricane belt and prone to severe weather.

type=printed postcards

theme=central america/caribbean

county/ country=bermuda

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted