The more familiar triangular boundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Miami ; San Juan, Puerto Rico ; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

David Kusche pointed out a common problem with many of the Bermuda Triangle stories and theories: " Say I claim that a parrot has been kidnapped to teach aliens human language and I challenge you to prove that is not true.

This has led to the production of vast amounts of material on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle.

Bacardi Limited is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda and has a 16-member board of directors led by the original founder's great-great grandson, Facundo L. Bacardí.

As a result, Bermuda has been continuously inhabited since the wrecking of the Sea Venture, and claims its origin from that date, and not the official settlement of 1612.

This deforestation, a foretaste of the deforestation of Bermuda by shipbuilding a century before the cedar blight, has yet to be repaired.

Bermuda has prospered economically since World War II, developing into a highly successful offshore financial centre.

Though Bermuda has been classified as a self-governed colony since 1620, internal self-government was bolstered by the establishment of a formal constitution in 1968, and the introduction of universal adult suffrage ; debate about independence has ensued, although a 1995 independence referendum was soundly defeated.

However, Bermuda is what is termed a pseudo-atoll because its general form, while resembling that of an atoll, has a very different mode of formation.

Plaque of the 1797 Scottish-rite Masonic Lodge which has been housed in Bermuda's State House, Bermuda | State House since 1815

Bermuda has the highest index value at 154 ; this means that goods sold there are more over priced than in the US.

Most academic books on the subject emphasise the characteristic multi-racialism of Bermuda's Black population ( at least those who might be defined as ethnically-Bermudian, as opposed to those resulting from recent immigration ), and it has been pointed out in other publications that, if those Black Bermudians who have White ancestry were numbered instead with the White population, the Black population of Bermuda would be negligible.

Bermuda is the oldest self-governing British Overseas Territory and has a great degree of internal autonomy.

Since 1968 Bermuda has had a Constitution that sets out its structure of government.

Internally, Bermuda has a parliamentary system of government.

The possibility of independence has relevance to newly enacted UK legislation entitling citizens of Britain's Overseas Territories, including Bermuda, to British citizenship.

There is a Bermuda Independence Commission, and it has published reports and papers to address issues related to independence.

Bermuda electoral politics has been characterized by single-party dominance: the UBP was the dominant party from 1968 to 1998, winning every election ; while the PLP has continuously been in power since 1998.

Despite the limited land mass, there has also been a tendency for place names to be repeated ; there are, for instance, two islands named " Long Island ", three bays known as " Long Bay " and the town of St. George is located within the parish of St. George on the island of St. George ( each known as St. George's ), whereas Bermuda's capital, the City of Hamilton, lies in Pembroke Parish, not Hamilton Parish, on the largest island, " Main Island ", which itself is sometimes called " Bermuda " ( or " Great Bermuda ").

It has been theorised that the volcanoes were formed by the Bermuda hotspot, if that existed.

In most parts of Bermuda, the soil is rarely more than a few inches deep, though, in some low-lying, inland areas it has collected quite deeply.

Bermuda has a very humid climate and, as a result, the summer-time heat index can be very high, even when the actual temperature seems moderate.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

( Smaller numbers of Scottish prisoners were also sent to Bermuda following Cromwell's invasion of Scotland.

In Palladium's After The Bomb Sourcebook 6: Mutants in Orbit, there is a section pertaining to Rifts that also says that there were several points where the ley lines create dimensional pockets ( similar to the Bermuda Triangle ) in which full-fledged jungles grow within the borders of three nearby Rifts.

Bermuda was also becoming overcrowded, and the Bahamas offered both religious and political freedom and economic opportunity.

However, in the 1650s, following Cromwell's adventures in Ireland, and his attempt to force his protectorship on independent Scotland, Irish prisoners-of-war ( POW ) and ethnically-cleansed civilians, and smaller numbers of Scots POWs, were also sent to Bermuda.

Consequently, the very features that made Bermuda such a prized base for the Royal Navy ( its headquarters in the North Atlantic and West Indies ' til after the Second World War, also meant it was perpetually threatened by US invasion, as the US would have liked to both deny the base to an enemy, and use it as a way to extend its defences hundreds of miles out to sea, which would not happen ' til the Second World War.

Following the loss of Britain's ports in thirteen of its former continental colonies, Bermuda was also used as a stop-over point between Canada and Britain's Caribbean possessions, and assumed a new strategic prominence for the Royal Navy.

It was also common, however, for enlisted men to marry Bermudians, and many of those remained in Bermuda, leaving the Army.

The terms of the base rights granted for Bermuda also included that the airfield constructed by the US would be used jointly with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ).

The modern yachting sloop is known as the Bermuda sloop, due to its Bermuda rig ( also known as the Marconi rig, due to its resemblance to the wireless towers of Guglielmo Marconi ), which is the optimal rig for upwind sailing ; consequently sloops are popular with sport sailors and yachtsmen, and for racing.

Churchill also granted the US base rights in Bermuda and Newfoundland gratis, allowing British military assets to be redeployed.

Of those enslaved, most were awarded to the allied tribes, but many were also sold as slaves in Bermuda.

Due to his father's work, Sheen also spent part of his childhood in Bermuda, where the family lived on St. John's Road, Pembroke.

As Bermuda's Blacks ( whether perceived as a diverse, multi-racial group, or as homogenously Black African ) have been in the majority for more than a century, but are still comparatively less well-off than White Bermudians, this fear may presumably also be the cause for the opposition to census reform in Bermuda.

There are also two seamounts to the South-West of Bermuda, forming Argus Banks, and Challenger Banks.

The size of cars is also restricted ( due to the narrow and winding roads on Bermuda ), meaning that many models popular in the United States, Canada, and Europe are not available in Bermuda.

With the US, the primary threat to Bermuda in the Nineteenth Century, becoming an ally in both wars, US forces began to make use of Bermuda also.

See also Government of Bermuda Budget Statement 2006 / 07 ( pdf file ).

His brother, Lt. Gen. Sir Walter Kitchener, had also entered the army, and was the Governor of Bermuda from 1908 ' til 1912.

She also spent several summers studying specimens and drawing illustrations at Bermuda Biological Laboratory, Marine Biological Laboratory, Mt.