Geography and environment. South Korea is located at the south end of the Korean Peninsula, between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea. Separated from Japan by the Korea Strait and demarcated from the state of North Korea by Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), South Korea's terrain is a mix of flat lowlands and forested mountains. The coasts of South Korea are rocky and jagged, with thousands of islands (mostly inhabitable) scattered off the coastline.
On May 14, 1607, the Virginia Company settlers landed on Jamestown Island to establish an English colony 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Discovery of the exact location of the first fort indicates its site was in a secure place, where Spanish ships could not fire point blank into the fort.
Recreations of the three ships that brought Americaâs first permanent English colonists to Virginia are on exhibit at Jamestown Settlement, a living-history museum near Historic Jamestowne interpreting 17th-century Virginia. Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, was founded in 1607.Many of its colonists died during the first few difficult years, but thanks to the leadership of Captain John Smith and others, Jamestown endured and served as a starting point for important explorations of the Chesapeake region.amestown and the James River were named in honor of King James I of England. He gave a royal charter to a private commercial enterprise, the Virginia Company, to establish settlements on the east coat of North America. Jamestown was important to England.