Bermuda lies 1250 km (675 nautical miles) southeast of New York City, near latitude 32°N and longitude 65°W, and consists of over 150 islands and islets covering an area of approximately 50 km2. The topography is rolling hills up to 50 m in elevation. Most of the land is less than 30 m above sea level. The Bermuda islands are situated on the southeastern edge of a 650 km2 platform, the top of the “Bermuda Pedestal,” which is the northernmost and largest of three volcanic seamounts on the Bermuda Rise (Fig. 1).
The Bermuda islands and adjacent banks. The modern wind rose illustrates the percentage frequency distribution of hourly wind direction for the eight prime points of the compass recorded at St. George's, Bermuda, during the period August 1932, to April 1954. The paleowind rose pictures the distribution of cross-bedding dip azimuths in the Bermuda eolianites. This distribution is an approximation of the direction of Pleistocene paleowinds.
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Mackenzie, F.T., Vacher, H.L. (1975). Bermuda . In: World Regional Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31081-1_17
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