Ordnance Island
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Ordnance Island is located within the limits of St. George's Town, Bermuda. It lies close to the shore opposite the town square, in St. George's Harbour.
St. George's Town, from Barrack Hill, in 1857, with Ordnance Island at left
Ordnance Island and St. George's Town, overlooked by Fort George.
Guard of TS Admiral Somers, the Bermuda Sea Cadet Corps unit of St. George's, parades on Ordnance Island to greet the yacht American Promise in 1986.
St. George's, Bermuda
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St. George's, located on the island and within the parish of the same names, settled in 1612, is the first permanent English settlement on the islands of Bermuda. It is often described as the third permanent British settlement in the Americas, after Jamestown, Virginia (1607), and Cupids, Newfoundland (1610), and the oldest continuously-inhabited British town in the New World, since the other two settlements were seasonal for a number of years.
St. George's harbour and town, seen from Fort George
Ordnance Island (left) and St. George's Town are overlooked by Fort George
The harbour at St. George's in 1854
St. George's Town, from Barrack Hill, 1857