Bermuda
Bermuda (also known as the Bermudas; nicknamed the 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.
My island in the sun.
Quotes
[edit]- Quo Fata Ferunt.
- Whither the Fates carry (us).
- Motto. "Bermuda". CIA World Factbook (July 2018)
- Hail to Bermuda,
My island in the sun.
Sing out in glory
To the nation we've become.- Bette Johns, "Hail to Bermuda" (1984), verse 1
- Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take you to
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama.- The Beach Boys, "Kokomo" (1988 song), written by John Phillips, Scott McKenzie, Mike Love and Terry Melcher
- Where the remote Bermudas ride,
In th' ocean's bosom unespied. - What should we do but sing his praise
That led us through the wat'ry maze
Unto an isle so long unknown,
And yet far kinder than our own? - He hangs in shades the orange bright,
Like golden lamps in a green night. - And makes the hollow seas that roar
Proclaim the ambergris on shore.
He cast (of which we rather boast)
The Gospel's pearl upon our coast.- Andrew Marvell, "Bermudas" (wr. c. 1653; pub. 1681)
- We, the undersigned, visitors to Bermuda, venture respectfully to express the opinion that the admission of automobiles to the island would alter the whole character of the place, in a way which would seem to us very serious indeed. The island now attracts visitors in considerable numbers because of the quiet and dignified simplicity of its life. … It would, in our opinion, be a fatal error to attract to Bermuda the extravagant and sporting set who have made so many other places of pleasure entirely intolerable to persons of taste and cultivation.
- Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, petition to the Bermuda Legislature (c. February 1, 1908); reported in The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link (1974), vol. 17, pp. 609–10. The petition, drafted by Wilson, garnered 111 signatures, including Samuel L. Clemens. The Bermuda Legislature did ban all motor cars.
