United States Naval Station White's Island, Bermuda United States Naval Station White's Island, Bermuda The United States Naval Station Whites Island was a United States Navy (USN) facility located on White's Island in Hamilton Harbour, in the British Colony of Bermuda, 640 miles off the coast of North Carolina. It was established during the First World War (or the "Great War", as it was originally known in Britain) by the US Navy for use by anti-submarine vessels transiting on their way from the United States to the European theatre of operations. Bermuda had already housed the Admiralty House, dockyard, and naval base of the North America and
Wildlife of Bermuda swamps. Areas of peat marsh include Devonshire, Pembroke, and Paget marshes. Bermuda has four endemic ferns: Bermuda maidenhair fern ("Adiantum bellum"), Bermuda shield fern ("Goniopteris bermudiana"), Bermuda cave fern ("Ctenitis sloanei") and Governor Laffan's fern ("Diplazium laffanianum"). The latter is extinct in the wild but is grown at Bermuda Botanical Gardens. The endemic flora of the island also include two mosses, ten lichens and forty fungi. Among the many introduced species are the Casuarina ("Casuarina equisetifolia") and Suriname cherry ("Eugenia uniflora"). Bermudiana ("Sisyrinchium bermudiana") Darrell's fleabane ("Erigeron darrellianus") Bermuda campylopus (moss) ("Campylopus bermudianus") Bermuda bean ("Phaseolus lignosus") Bermuda spike rush