St. George's Harbour, Bermuda

[1] To enter St. George's Harbour, sailors must fly a yellow quarantine flag, and navigate the ship towards the Customs dock.

Before passing through Bermuda customs, visitors must declare all medicines, and cannot bring fruits or vegetables into the country.

The crew and passengers of the Sea Venture, driven onto the reefs off St. Catherine's Point in 1609, stayed on St. George's Island for nearly a year.

When the first intentional settlers arrived from England in 1609, they settled very briefly on St. David's Island, before moving across the Harbour to create St. George's, the oldest continuously-inhabited English settlement in the New World.

This build up began in 1795, but a decade later, the Royal Navy was actively developing the dockyard on Ireland Island, and it soon withdrew from St. George's completely.

The various surviving East End forts, batteries and other military structures, together with the old capital, have been declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a World Heritage Site, the Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda.

Location of St. George's Harbour in Bermuda
Nautical Chart of St. George's Harbour, Bermuda in the 1880s
The Parish of St. George's, in 1676. The enclosed harbour to the North-East is St. George's Harbour, that to the South-West is Castle Harbour (originally Southampton Harbour ).
St. George's Harbour, ca. 1864. Confederate blockade runners are visible.
St. George's Harbour, as seen from Fort George