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Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean.Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1,770 km (1,100 mi) northeast of Miami, Florida, and 1,350 km (840 mi) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, west of Portugal, northwest of Brazil, 1,759 km (1,093 mi) north of Havana, Cuba and ...
This platform is part of the larger Bermuda Pedestal (other high points include the Challenger and Plantagenet banks, separated by water 1000 feet deep). The island's volcanic basement rock is relatively shallow, only 75 meters below the surface of the water and includes 700 meters of tholeiitic lavas and lamprophyre sheets dated to 33 million ...
Bermuda does not have any Bachelor-level colleges or universities. Bermuda's graduates usually attend Bachelor-level universities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. [220] In May 2009, the Bermudian Government's application was approved to become a contributory member of the University of the West Indies (UWI). Bermuda's ...
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Rocky Mountain foothills near Denver, Colorado. Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area. They are a transition zone between plains and low relief hills and the adjacent topographically higher mountains, hills, and uplands. [1]
The "Bermuda high" is a high-pressure system located over the Atlantic Ocean that borrows its name from a nearby island chain and has the ability to influence the movement of tropical systems in ...
On Sept. 13, 1712, Capt. Benjamin Bennett, Governor of Bermuda, wrote, "On the 8th, about two in the afternoon began the most severest hurricane that has bee Bermuda's resiliency to hurricanes ...
Town Hill is the highest point on the island of Bermuda at 79 metres (259 ft). [2] It is located just to the south of Flatt's Village , and offers views across Harrington Sound , immediately to its north.