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Boaz Island

Sandys, Italy

Boaz Island

Boaz Island, formerly known as Gate's Island or Yates Island, is one of the six main islands of Bermuda. It is part of a chain of islands in the west of the country that make up Sandys Parish, lying between the larger Ireland Island and Watford Island, with which it has been joined by a man-made ist

hmus. South of Watford Island is Somerset Island. Boaz and Watford are connected to Somerset by Watford Bridge, and to Ireland by Gray's Bridge. Watford's east coast forms part of the edge of the Great Sound. The western end of the channel between Boaz and Watford was blocked by the isthmus, creating a camber that opens to the Great Sound. Boaz and Watford Islands were parts of the Royal Naval base, which included the HM Dockyard on Ireland Island. Constructed in the mid-19th century, the Clarence Barracks on Boaz Island housed convict laborers who had previously lived aboard prison hulks, while a hospital and related facilities were established on neighboring Watford Island. After the withdrawal of the Convict Establishment in the 1860s, both islands were transferred to the British Army, and the bridge connecting them was replaced with a man-made isthmus. With the reduction of the Bermuda...

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