Bermuda
the Bermudas
Somers Islands

In 1653 he was made a commissioner with responsibility for the Bermudas.

He also left money to schools in the Bermudas.

It was sent 140 miles west of the Bermudas.

I suppose we only stopped at the Bermudas because they were in the programme.

He is said to have resided at that date in the Bermudas.

"But how is it we are off the Bermudas?

A new beneficiary trust based in the Bermudas is."

There are several "sights" in the Bermudas, of course, but they are easily avoided.

Until then, the Bermudas were popularly thought to be inhabited by demons and fairies.

The anticyclone of the Bermudas produces especially hot weather in August.

There are no mosquitoes in the Bermudas in May.

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bermudas.

They moved in with a number of Warwick's discontented colonists from the Bermudas.

She pulled the Bermudas and boxers down over his shoes and tossed them across the cage.

It can also be found from North Carolina, the Bermudas to Northern Brazil.

He was coming out to interview Benedict Stark, who had just returned from a trip to his private island playground in the Bermudas.

This is because one of Shakespeare's sources was a series of pamphlets that had been written about a recent shipwreck in the Bermudas.

Botany of the Bermudas (1900)

Stark killed Howard Paxton on that private island of his in the Bermudas.

"Yes," I replied, "the Bermudas were all the rage in the seventeenth century, although latterly they have fallen into comparative oblivion."

Lefroy and the Bermudas.

The younger Bruere was Lieutenant Governor of the Bermudas from 1780 to 1781.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1667 and died in the Bermudas in 1672.

This marine species occurs off Eastern Florida, USA and the Bermudas.

The Bermudas were modified versions of the Dasher class of 1797, and eventually consisted of six ships.

Somers Isles is often rendered "Somers Islands", or mistaken for "Summer Isles").

Elfrith passed its location to Philip Bell who was governor of the Somers Islands; Bell mentioned it to Nathaniel Rich.

In 1625 The Somers Islands Company, which owned the island, ordered their tenants on Bermuda to "build houses of stone upon the publique land", but Woodhouse told them that would be "a taske too hard to be undertaken."

The Virginia Company had itself produced a subsidiary company which occupied the islands at first known officially as Somers Islands - though when Shakespeare wrote The Tempest some people already called them the Bermoothes, and Bermuda it remained for posterity.

J. H. Lefroy (editor), Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands 1515-1685: Volumes I and II (reprinted Bermuda Historical Society and National Trust, Hamilton, 1981)

The charges against him had met with no acceptance from the king; to the last he was consulted on all important matters relating to shipping and to eastern trade, and for several years was one of the chief commissioners of the navy, as also governor of the French and Somers Islands companies.