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Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda, Verdmont and 4 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Bermuda and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Aquarium in Flatts Village, Bermuda
Usually shortened to BAMZ, an aquarium, museum and zoo in Flatts Village, at the geographical centre of Bermuda, about 700 mi (1,100 km) east of the United States. The Bermuda government founded it in 1926 to boost a growing tourist trade and "to inspire appreciation and care of island environments."
Photo: Robyn Fleming, CC BY 2.0
Base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic
HMD Bermuda, the Royal Navy's main base in the Western Atlantic from American independence to the Cold War. Even before England settled it in 1609, the island had sat usefully astride the route home taken by many European ships from the New World, and it became an Imperial fortress colony.
Photo: SeanMD80 ( talk ) ( Uploads ), CC BY-SA 3.0
Historic house in Smith's Parish, Bermuda
A house of c. 1710 at 6 Verdmont Lane, off Sayle Road, on top of Collector’s Hill in Smith's Parish, Bermuda, now a museum run by the Bermuda National Trust. Its structure has barely changed since it went up, and it became a museum in 1956.
Photo: P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0
Anglican parish church of Pembroke in Bermuda
The Anglican parish church of Pembroke, Bermuda, on St John's Road, founded in the 1620s as Spanish Point Church, after the parish's first name.
Photo: Peter Burka, CC BY-SA 2.0
Large ocean inlet (a sound) in Bermuda
A large ocean inlet in Bermuda that may be the drowned remains of a volcanic caldera older than the Holocene.
Photo: The original uploader was Grutness at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0
Island in Bermuda
An island of Bermuda in the Great Sound, close to the shore of Pembroke Parish. Once owned by the billionaire James Martin, it was in the past a secret munitions store of the British Army's Bermuda Garrison.
Photo: David Broad, CC BY 3.0
Square fort in Bermuda
A square fort crowning Mount Hill, to the west of St. George's Town, close to but just beyond the bounds of St. George's Garrison, the British Army's first main camp in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda.
Photo: British Government, Public domain
A British Overseas Territory out in the North Atlantic. Its nearest land beyond its own islands is some 1,035 km (643 mi) away, to the west-northwest: the coast of North Carolina, in the United States.
Officially Bermuda.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 7: Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda, Verdmont and St. John the Evangelist, Bermuda and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Bermuda that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
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