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'Nonsuch Island' (originally ''Nonesuch Island'') is part of the chain which makes up Bermuda. It is located in St. George's Parish, in the northeast of the territory.
The island, which covers 14 acres (5.7 hectares), is situated at the eastern entrance to Castle Harbour, close to the southeasternmost point of Cooper's Island (now ostensibly part of the much larger St. David's Island). Latitude (DMS): 32° 20' 52 N Longitude (DMS): 64° 39' 48 W
In 1930 it served as a base for William Beebe and Otis Barton's landmark bathysphere dive.
The island is a wildlife sanctuary. Wooded and with a small freshwater marsh, access to the public is strictly limited.
The restoration of the once barren island into a 'Living Museum of pre-colonial Bermuda' is the lifetime work of now retired Bermudian ornithologist and conservationist David B. Wingate, and part of his effort to bring back from near-extinction the once plentiful, endemic nocturnal seabird, and national emblem of Bermuda, the Cahow.
★ about the Living Museum project
★ location on wikimapia, satellite image
'Nonsuch Island' (originally ''Nonesuch Island'') is part of the chain which makes up Bermuda. It is located in St. George's Parish, in the northeast of the territory.
The island, which covers 14 acres (5.7 hectares), is situated at the eastern entrance to Castle Harbour, close to the southeasternmost point of Cooper's Island (now ostensibly part of the much larger St. David's Island). Latitude (DMS): 32° 20' 52 N Longitude (DMS): 64° 39' 48 W
In 1930 it served as a base for William Beebe and Otis Barton's landmark bathysphere dive.
The island is a wildlife sanctuary. Wooded and with a small freshwater marsh, access to the public is strictly limited.
The restoration of the once barren island into a 'Living Museum of pre-colonial Bermuda' is the lifetime work of now retired Bermudian ornithologist and conservationist David B. Wingate, and part of his effort to bring back from near-extinction the once plentiful, endemic nocturnal seabird, and national emblem of Bermuda, the Cahow.
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★ about the Living Museum project
★ location on wikimapia, satellite image
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