Ever since, Bermuda has also been known officially as "The Somers Isles". Sir Thomas Gates left his own name on a part of the colony, "Gate's Bay", where the survivors of the "Sea Venture" landed. The oldest surviving fort in Bermuda, built between 1612 and 1615, is known as "Gate's Fort". Many scholars believe Gates' accounts inspired William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Sir Thomas Gates had a cross erected before leaving Bermuda, on which was a copper tablet inscribed in Latin and English: