St. George's Island, Bermuda

Saint George's Iceland is an island in the far north- east of the western Atlantic archipelago Bermuda. It belongs mainly to the St. George's Parish, an administrative area in the east of Bermuda.

Geography

The approximately 2.8 km ² island is divided by the Mullet Bay and a narrow isthmus lying there in two equal areas. In the hilly Northern part of the island, which borders to the south of the Bay St. George 's Harbour, is the eponymous capital of Saint George's, in the sparsely populated, flat south industrial plants as well as a commercial harbor are, however, mostly.

With the south adjacent island of Saint David's, on which is the international airport of Bermuda, St. George 's Iceland is connected by two small bridges. For Bermudan main island ( Grand Bermuda) there are no more direct connection. There used to be a narrow and 300 meters long railway line from the southern tip of St. George's Coney Iceland Iceland to the main island. Today, the indirect path via a 1,000 -meter-long causeway ( The Causeway ) from the southwest of the airport island of Saint David's on the northeastern tip of Grand Bermuda leads. In addition, however, there are numerous ferry services between the islands.

History

Saint George's Iceland, which temporarily King's Iceland was called, was the earliest kolonalisierte part of Bermuda. The island's name probably derives from the English Admiral Sir George Somers, who in 1609 founded the first settlements on the Bermuda Islands.