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.

It is entirely probable that, if Bermuda had not been so remote from the continental coastline, and had the Royal Navy not enjoyed near supremacy on the ocean, Bermuda would have been the fourteenth colony to join the rebellion.

Air India, El Al, Iran Air and Kuwait Airways were permitted to continue exercising their so-called " fifth freedom " traffic rights from Heathrow to John F. Kennedy Airport ( JFK ), which they had already enjoyed under the original Bermuda agreement.

Instead a rapidly forming moderate El Niño event in 2006, activity was slowed by the presence of the Saharan Air Layer over the tropical Atlantic and the steady presence of a robust secondary high pressure area to the Azores high centered around Bermuda.

After maintaining peak winds for 18 hours, Fox began a steady weakening trend, accelerating to the north and northeast ahead of Easy and passing to the east of Bermuda.

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

The same lack of economic opportunities within Bermuda had led islanders to abandon agriculture following the dissolution of the Somers Isles Company in 1684, and turn wholeheartedly towards maritime activities.

As the war progressed, with no hope of joining the rebellion due to power of the Royal Navy ( in the letter he had addressed to Bermudians soliciting the theft of the gunpowder, George Washington had written We would not wish to in volve you in an Opposition, in which from your Situation, we should be unable to support you: -- We knew not therefore to what Extent to sollicit your Assistance in availing ourselves of this Supply ), with increasing numbers of Amercan loyalists in Bermuda ( such as the privateer Bridger Goodrich ), and with their economic opportunities dwindling, Bermudians overcame their sympathies for their erstwhile countrymen and unleashed their privateers ( which, by the middle of the 18th Century already outnumbered those of any of the mainland colonies ) upon American shipping.

Even after tourism began in the later 19th Century, Bermuda remained, in the eyes of London, a base more than a colony, and this led to a change in the political dynamics within Bermuda as its political and economic ties to Britain were strengthened, and its independence on the world stage was diminished.

Following the Crimean War, the trend was towards reducing military garrisons in colonies like Bermuda, partly for economic reasons, and partly as it became recognised that the Royal Navy's own ships could provide a better defence for the Dockyard, and Bermuda.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Bermuda, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Following the Crimean War, the trend was towards reducing military garrisons in colonies like Bermuda, partly for economic reasons, and partly as it became recognised that the Royal Navy's own ships could provide a better defence for the Dockyard, and Bermuda.

Again, in 2001, she made the following statement: " As I have stated repeatedly, consistently and unequivocally since assuming the leadership of the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party, I shall state once again for the record – independence is not an issue that we will address in our first term and probably not in our second term .... We believe that there are a number of areas that need addressing before Bermuda heads down this road.

Bermuda has since been known officially also as The Somers Isles ( in commemoration of Admiral Somers ).

Television and rock ' n ' roll captured taste and fashion, including the new " short shorts " fad, since Bermuda shorts were considered old, dull, and " fuddy-duddy " although, as History of Costume author and FIT Professor Rachel Kemper noted, " Short shorts left a girl's ass hanging out.

Its original form had gaff rigging, but evolved to use what is now known as Bermuda rig, which had been used on smaller Bermudian boats since the early 17th Century, making it the basis of nearly all modern sailing yachts.

Additionally, in the process of sending additional supplies on the Third Supply mission to Jamestown, in 1609 the Virginia Company of London inadvertently settled the Somers Isles, alias Bermuda, the oldest-remaining English ( since 1707, British ) colony, following the shipwreck of the Virginia Company's new flagship, the Sea Venture.

* Garibaldi refers to Grey sector as " the triangle " ( see Bermuda Triangle ) saying that the sector has been a source for strange happenings since the station was built.

Arthur Rankin Jr. has since split his time between New York City, where the company still has its offices, and his summer retreat in Bermuda.

The islands were not fully colonised until 1681, when salt collectors from Bermuda built the first permanent settlement on Grand Turk Island ( thought to be so named due to the presence of cacti with, what appeared to them to be red fez-like structures on their tops, but this not likely to be true, since the fez was unknown to Ottoman Empire before 1826 ).

The 53d became a part of the USAF before its inactivation in 1947, was reactivated in 1951 as a long range weather reconnaissance unit based in Bermuda and England, and since 1962 has been based in the southern United States or Puerto Rico with the primary mission of measurement of tropical cyclones.

In early September, Hurricane Fabian struck Bermuda as a Category 3 hurricane, where it was the worst hurricane since 1926 ; on the island it caused four deaths and $ 300 million in damage ( 2003 USD, $ USD ).

Smith led her party to victory in parliamentary elections in November 1998, in which the United Bermuda Party, which had dominated elections since autonomy was gained in 1968, suffered an unprecedented defeat.

Fabian was the strongest hurricane to hit Bermuda since Hurricane Arlene in 1963.

* Bermuda Petrel or " Cahow " ( Pterodroma cahow ) — Thought extinct since 1620 until 18 nesting pairs were found in 1951 on an uninhabited rock outcropping in Bermuda.

Rhodes is Chairman of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Delphi Financial Group, Inc. & Subsidiaries, New York ; Delphi International Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda ; and Oracle Reinsurance Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda, and has been on the board of Heritage Foundation since the end of 1993.

But not long out of Bermuda, Tew announced his intention of turning to piracy, asking the crew for their support since he could not enforce the illegal scheme without their consent.

At Bermuda the two countries agreed again on the two freedoms that had been accepted at Chicago, since that agreement was not yet in force, receiving its 26th ratification in time to operate from April 4, 1947.