About the site
Located in Bermuda’s Southhampton Parish, High Point Nature Reserve is a recently established green space for the archipelago. The ten-acre site was established in 2022 through Buy Back Bermuda, a collaborative effort between the Bermuda National Trust and Bermuda Audubon Society to “purchase and conserve our previous open space for the enjoyment of everyone, forever” (source). The site, which otherwise would have been developed, consists of agricultural areas, woodland, and coastline. It opened to the public on Earth Day in 2025.
Buy Back Bermuda still has plans to develop the space further, such as removing invasive species and replacing them fruit trees and nurseries and adding spaces for wildlife to thrive. Work to create nature trails has already been undertaken, and the group has further plans for using the space to educate Bermudians on their home’s natural history and establish it as a site for flora and fauna to thrive.
Bermuda History and Archeology
Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory located approximately 650 miles northwest of North Carolina. The archipelago was discovered in 1503 by the Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez, after whom it was named. At the time of its discovery it was uninhabited, and remained so until a British ship called the Sea Venture purposefully wrecked on the extensive reefs following a storm in 1609. The Sea Venture had been heading for the new colony of Jamestown, and its crew and passengers lived on Smith’s Island for several months until boats were constructed to get them to their intended destination. However, several decided to stay behind, making their original settlement of St. George’s the longest continually inhabited British settlement in North America. St. George’s would serve as Bermuda’s capital until 1815, when it was relocated to Hamilton.
Archeological work on Bermuda has included digs on Smith’s Island, where the Sea Venture survivors established a home base, and in St. George’s Parish. This work has been conducted with the hopes of finding evidence of Bermuda’s earliest inhabitants and settlements, and to understand what life was like for the people who lived there in its earliest days. So far, little archeological work has been done on the rest of the archipelago, making it unclear what, if any, discoveries could be had.
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