Smith's Island is part of the chain which makes up
Bermuda
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. It is located in
St. George's Parish, in the northeast of the territory.
The 61 acre (24.5 hectare) island is located close to the northern entrance to
St. George's Harbour, east of the town of
St. George's to the south of the slightly smaller
Paget Island and close to the coast of the much larger
St. David's Island.
The island is of historical significance, as it is the site of the first settlement in Bermuda, when Carter, Chard and Waters built cabins here in 1610, who remained behind after the other survivors of the 1609 wreck of the
Sea Venture
''Sea Venture'' was a seventeenth-century English sailing ship, part of the Third Supply mission to the Jamestown Colony, that was wrecked in Bermuda in 1609. She was the 300 ton purpose-built flagship of the London Company and a highly unusual ...
sailed for
Jamestown, Virginia. This was two years before the first planned colonists arrived on 11 July 1612.
Islands of Bermuda
St. George's Parish, Bermuda
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