Geographicals

Bermuda

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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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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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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a British colony in the North Atlantic

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Bermuda. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001605. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001605
  2. Bermuda. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda
  3. Bermuda. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23635