Long Island, Bermuda

Long Island, Bermuda

Long Island is a small island within the Great Sound, Bermuda of Bermuda. It lies in the southeast of the sound, and is in the north of Warwick Parish. Like its neighbour Hawkins Island, it was a prisoner of war camp during the Second Boer War from 1901 to 1902.


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