Archipelagoes of the Atlantic Ocean: The Bahamas, Bermuda, Madeira, Magdalen Islands, Cape Verde, Fernando de Noronha

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: The Bahamas, Bermuda, Madeira, Magdalen Islands, Cape Verde, Fernando de Noronha, Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, Thimble Islands, Northern Isles, Ilhabela, São Paulo, Chausey, Cíes Islands, Lucayan Archipelago, Vikna, Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago, Bissagos Islands, Outer Lands, Barlavento Islands, Sotavento Islands, Chinijo Archipelago, Îles de Los, Vitória, Ons Island, Ilhas Cagarras, Mingan Archipelago, Abrolhos Marine National Park, Molde Archipelago. Excerpt: Bermuda ( ; officially, the Bermudas or Somers Isles) 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 navigator Juan de Bermúdez (who claimed to find the island inhabited only by pigs) after whom the islands are named, who claimed it for the Spanish Empire. Unoccupied, the island was settled by England in 1609, making it the oldest and 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 was once even claimed to have the world's highest GDP per capita, yet these statistics are hard to verify as Bermuda is not classified as a country but rather as a territory of the U.K. 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 vesse...