Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda
Location: North America. Located in the west of North Atlantic, 917km away from South Carolina.
It covers an area of 54 square kilometers.
The population is 62,000 (estimated 1999), of which 60% are black.
Official language English
Hamilton, the capital
Anglican Church, Anglican Church, Roman Catholic Church and other Christians.
Time zone Greenwich Mean Time -3
Currency Bermuda dollar (equivalent to US dollars)
St George, the main city of Freeport.
1503 Spanish Juan Bermuda arrives on the island. 1609 The British came here to colonize. 1684 became a British colony, the earliest colony of the Commonwealth. 194 1 year, Britain leased Morgan and other three islands to the United States to establish naval and air bases for 99 years. The US Naval Air Base is on St George's Island. Kindley Airport is an air base and an international airport. 1960 American satellite ground receiving station was built. The British army retreated. 1968 gained internal independence.
The islands in the western North Atlantic are located at 3218' north latitude and 64-65 west longitude, about 928 kilometers away from the North American continent. Bermuda consists of seven main islands and more than 150 small islands and reefs, which are distributed in a fishhook shape. Bermuda is the largest. Only 20 islands are inhabited. The average annual temperature is 265438 degrees Celsius. The annual average precipitation is about1500mm. It is one of the northernmost coral islands in the world. There are many volcanic rocks on the island, and the mountains are undulating, with the highest elevation of 73 meters. Fish and lobster are produced in the nearby waters. Industries include ship repair, shipbuilding, pharmaceuticals and handicrafts. The climate is mild and pleasant. The surrounding seabed is rich in oil and gas hydrates. Ships often disappear in the waters around here, which is called the mysterious Bermuda Triangle. It is a world-famous mystery, and some people think it is related to the decomposition of submarine hydrated petroleum gas. Mainly rely on tourism, international finance and insurance. Insurance and reinsurance assets exceed $35 billion, second only to London and new york. Because there is no income tax, it is one of the famous international "tax havens".
Generally speaking, Bermuda's politics and economy have been in a very stable state. The quality of local banking, accounting, business and secretarial services is in the leading position in all overseas paradise. Like Singapore company, the annual maintenance cost is relatively expensive, which is its main disadvantage. As Bermuda is a member of the OECD and there are many professional lawyers and accountants in Bermuda, it must become one of the major international financial centers. Its overseas companies are also widely accepted by the government and large enterprises. Bermuda is a leader of companies outside the world.
Due to the lack of natural resources, there are only small industries such as ship repair, shipbuilding, pharmacy and handicrafts. In recent years, the government has actively encouraged the development of light industry production.
Agriculture accounts for 2.5% of GDP. There are 839 mu of cultivated land, mainly planting vegetables, oranges, bananas and so on. 80% of food is imported, and milk and eggs are basically self-sufficient. The shortage of agricultural labor force only accounts for 1. 1% of the total employed population.
Financial services is the second largest economic sector. Due to the stable political situation in Bermuda, there is no foreign exchange control, and the financial secrecy law is strictly observed. These islands have become one of the largest offshore financial and commercial centers in the world. Since 1999, the number of employees has remained above 3,200. The insurance industry is quite developed, accounting for about 1/3 of the world accident reinsurance, and the income from insurance business in 198 billion Bermuda dollars in 1996. The company registration industry has a strong development momentum. In 2000, the growth rate was as high as 9.5%. Most of them are insurance companies, followed by trading companies, shipping groups and individual investment companies. Bermuda is the fifth largest shipping register in the world.
Tourism is the most important economic sector, accounting for 32% of GDP and 40% of total foreign exchange income. The employed population accounts for 60% of the national labor force. Mainly receiving high-income tourists. In recent years, the tourism industry has been sluggish. 197 received 5626 foreign tourists19, a year-on-year decrease of 1.7%. The total tourism revenue is $6543.8+$396 million. Tourism continued to decline by 6% in the first half of 2000. 85% tourists come from the United States, and the rest come from Canada and western European countries.
transport
Highway: The total length is about 6 1 1 km. 1994 registered 48,677 vehicles, including 20,727 private cars and 3,389 commercial vehicles. In order to alleviate traffic congestion, each family is limited to one minibus.
Water transport: there are three main ports: Hamilton, St. George and Freeport of Ireland Island. There are 1993 merchant ships.
Air transport: Kendley Airport is the only international airport. There are flights to Britain and America. 1992, the total passenger traffic is 758594 1, the freight volume is 600 tons, and the air mail is 668 tons.
Fiscal and financial tariffs, corporate tax, stamp duty and land tax are the main sources of government revenue.
Almost all foreign trade commodities depend on imports. 75% of imported products come from the United States. The main trading partners are the United States, Britain, Italy, China and Canada. Over the years, foreign trade has exceeded the quota. The main imported products are machinery and means of transport, food, beverages, finished products and fuels. The export is mainly the re-export of drugs, and the main local export products are cosmetics and flowers.
The people's government implements a social insurance and pension system to provide pensions for all employed people. From 65438 to 0970, the government promulgated the Hospital Insurance Law, which provided medical insurance for all residents, free medical care for children and medical subsidies for the elderly.
Bermuda's wedding custom: Bermuda islanders put a sapling on top of their multi-layered wedding cake, and the newlyweds should plant the sapling at home so that they can witness the sapling growing with their marriage.
Military affairs were originally managed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The United States of America has a military base in Baiji. The United States, Britain and Canada have 3,000 military personnel stationed in 100 countries. At present, the US military base in Belarus has been cancelled. There are hundreds of local defense forces and about 700 regiments.
cultural education
Education public schools provide free compulsory education for children aged 5 ~ 16, and provide a large number of scholarships for higher education and teacher training. The adult illiteracy rate is only 1.6%. In fiscal year 1998/ 1999, the government's expenditure on education accounted for 3 1% of the total budget. Student 1997 * * * 10533, of which 6378 are in public schools and 35 12 are in private schools. Primary school 18, middle school 14, 5 special schools and 5 private schools. There is a Bermuda College, a junior college, and there are no universities in China. After graduating from high school, students usually go to universities in the United States, Britain or Canada for further study. If students are admitted to prestigious schools in these countries, the government will provide scholarships for each student. There is a daily newspaper, two weekly newspapers, a monthly newspaper and a bimonthly newspaper. Royal Daily: Morning Post, circulation17500; Bermuda Sun: weekly, circulation 15500; Zhongyang News: Weekly, with a circulation of 14500; Bermudians: a monthly pictorial with a circulation of 14000; Voice of workers: bimonthly.
Bermuda Broadcasting Corporation operates two commercial television stations and five radio stations. There is also a St. George broadcasting company. Many places in Bermuda can watch cable TV programs.
Foreign relations are the responsibility of Britain. Bermuda participates in the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization and other international organizations as a member of the British delegation. The United States of America has a Consul General in Bermuda.
Bermuda devil's triangle
The origin of the name "Bermuda Devil's Triangle" is that 19 of the United States of America suddenly disappeared during training on February 5, 945. At that time, the scheduled flight plan was a triangle, so people later extended the western Pacific Ocean along the southeast coast of the United States of America from Bermuda in the north to Miami in the south of Florida, and then passed through the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and the vicinity of the 40th line of the west longitude. Hundreds of ships and planes crashed in this area, and thousands of people died here. From 1880 to 1976, there were about 158 disappearances, most of which occurred in the 30 years since 1949. 97 people are missing, and at least 2000 people are killed or missing here. The mysterious disappearance of these halls is mainly in an area called "the sargasso sea" in the western Atlantic Ocean, which is a wide water area between 20-40 north latitude and 35-75 west longitude. Here is the world-famous Mexican warm current, which is day and night 120- 190 km, and is often attacked by eddies, typhoons and tornadoes. Not only that, the sea here is 4000-5000 meters deep, and there is the Puerto Rico Trench, which is more than 7000 meters deep and the deepest is 92 18 meters.
So far, the explanations of the Bermuda Devil's Triangle can be summarized into the following categories: one category thinks that these disappearances are caused by supernatural reasons and are related to whether there are alien flying saucers at work. The second category thinks that it is caused by natural causes, such as geomagnetic anomalies and submarine holes. Some people even put forward the bubble theory, the clear sky turbulence theory, the water bridge theory and the black hole theory. And explain the Bermuda Devil's Triangle with some strange natural phenomena. Recently, a British geologist and Professor kleiner from Leeds University put forward a new viewpoint. He believes that the chief culprit that often causes shipwrecks or shipwrecks in Bermuda waters is the huge biogas bubbles generated at the bottom of the sea. Crystals composed of frozen water and biogas have been found under the seabed strata in Bermuda. When a severe earthquake occurs on the seabed, the massive crystals buried in the ground are turned out, and they will vaporize rapidly because of the reduction of external pressure. A large number of bubbles rise to the water surface, which reduces the density of seawater and loses its original buoyancy. At this time, ships passing through here will sink to the bottom of the sea like stones. If there happens to be a plane passing by at this time, when the biogas meets the burning plane engine, it will undoubtedly burn and explode immediately and disappear. On the contrary, some people think that these strange disappearance phenomena are not related to each other, thus denying the existence of the Bermuda Devil's Triangle. Whether the mysterious veil of Bermuda has been unveiled remains to be verified by future generations.
The mystery of Bermuda's missing persons reappears
"Time and space are everywhere, everywhere." This is a philosophical proposition and one of the most common misunderstandings. According to scientists' judgment, even the most accurate watches will not be accurate in the areas where the Tunguska meteorite fell, the nuclear weapons experimental area, the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other places where death is threatened. Sometimes incredible things happen, just like "time break" ... in the magical ocean, it seems to show people the break of time from time to time.
1. The reappearance of sea breeze after eight years of disappearance.
198 1 In August, a British cruise ship named "Sea Breeze" suddenly disappeared in the "Devil's Triangle"-Bermuda waters. At that time, six people on board suddenly disappeared.
Unexpectedly, eight years later, this ship miraculously appeared in the original waters of Bermuda! The six people on board were safe and sound.
The characteristic of these six people is that they have lost their feelings at that time, and they are unaware of the past eight years and feel that it is only a moment. When the investigators repeatedly told them that eight years had passed, they finally reluctantly accepted the fact of what they had done that day, and they were speechless because they only felt that they had done nothing for a while.
Hartman, one of the investigators and an Australian UFO expert, is very excited about this, because this is the first time that Bermuda's missing people have reappeared. Although there have been cases of missing ships before, it is impossible to find out the whole story. Although the six men failed to answer the investigators' questions satisfactorily, he thought hypnosis was likely to find out the details of their adventures and make amazing discoveries from them.
Although this strange thing has a time difference, it is an excellent case to study the time difference between the type I world and the type II world. It is also a good material for studying "just visiting". This is an equally important case among many UFO cases, which has aroused great concern of relevant scientists.
2. Balloons that have been missing for 36 years reappear.
1954, in the Caribbean, pilots Shirley Logan and Daley Norton participated in the balloon transoceanic competition with 50 other contestants. At that time, the weather was clear and the vision was clear. Suddenly, in front of everyone, the balloon disappeared for no reason.
1990, balloons that disappeared for many years suddenly appeared on the land of Cuba and North America. Its appearance made the governments of Cuba and the United States very nervous, especially Cuba, which mistakenly thought that the United States had sent secret weapons to attack.
Cuban pilot Major Kimi Ededo said, "One minute there is nothing in the sky, and the next minute there will be balloons." At that time, the Cuban military found this balloon on the radar and thought it was a secret weapon of the United States. It once sent a plane to shoot it down. Finally, the balloon was forced to land at sea by a Cuban plane, and two pilots were rescued by a cruiser and sent to a secret naval base in Cuba for trial.
This strange thing not only surprised Cubans, but also puzzled two drivers, Norton and Logan. The two pilots said that they were taking part in a hot air balloon race from Xiawan to Puerto Rico. They don't know that thirty-six years have passed. They only feel a slight tingling sensation all over their bodies, as if there is a weak current flowing on them. Then everything in sight, including big sea and the sky, turned gray in the blink of an eye. Then they remembered that a Cuban plane appeared in front of their balloon.
Carl Gore, an investigator in Chicago, once verified Logan and Norton's statements. They did magically disappear on the way to a balloon competition on 1954. Gore believes that the balloon has entered the time tunnel. "It may be just a moment for them, but it has been 36 years on earth, which is very different." Therefore, this is a magical tunnel that is slower than Earth's time.
There are many cases similar to the above, the same is that the time for missing persons to reappear is slow. However, there are also cases where missing persons feel that time is getting faster.
3.93 The Mystery of the Sudden Aging of the Crew
This strange thing happened in Bermuda's Devil's Triangle. One minute ago, a former Soviet submarine sailed underwater in Bermuda, but when it surfaced a minute later, it was actually in the Indian Ocean. During the voyage almost halfway around the earth, the 93 crew members in the submarine suddenly aged 5 to 20 years.
After this incident, the military and scientific circles of the former Soviet Union immediately began to investigate the submarine and all the personnel, and made three reports.
One of the researchers, Dr. Alis Masulov, said: "This submarine entered the acceleration pipeline of a time tunnel. Although little is known at present, there is no other more reasonable explanation. " "As for the impact of speed on the human body when traveling through time and space, we don't know much, only know that it has an impact on some parts of the human body. Those crew members have aged for five to twenty years in a very short time, but we have never seen them. "
Nigra Sibayev, commander of the submarine, said, "We were on a mission in Bermuda and everything was normal. For some reason, the submarine suddenly sank. " "It came suddenly, stopped suddenly, and then everything returned to normal, but we felt something was wrong and ordered the submarine to surface." "The whole incident happened so fast that we didn't even have time to think. At that time, our navigator showed that our position was in the east of Central Africa, which means it was 1000 km away from our previous position. The submarine immediately made radio contact with the former Soviet naval headquarters, and the contact results confirmed that the location of their submarine was indeed in the Indian Ocean rather than Bermuda.
After the submarine returned to the submarine base in the Black Sea, the crew on board were immediately sent by plane to a laboratory in Moscow for expert inspection. The results show that they are obviously aging, with typical characteristics such as wrinkles, white hair, muscle loss of elasticity and decreased vision. From the aging point of view, this is indeed a tragedy, but from the scientific point of view, this is a gratifying new discovery. What these crew members have experienced tells us that there may be a time tunnel faster than Earth's time.
Soldiers who have been drifting in the ocean for 45 years have been rescued.
1945, a warship was struck by a mine, and 25 American soldiers drifted to the sea. 1989 was rescued.
1945, 25 American soldiers who sank into the sea with the American Indianapolis aircraft carrier in the South Pacific were rescued by Filipino fishermen in 1989.
When people received the SOS distress signal, they found that the 25 American soldiers were sitting in a navy lifeboat, floating in the Celebes Sea in the southern Philippines. Mysterious disappearances often occur in the area where they live. People call it the "Devil's Triangle in the South Pacific"-that is, the Dragon Triangle.
The US Navy authorities were puzzled by the appearance of these sailors. The soldiers who reappeared were as young as when the cruiser sank 45 years ago.
Twenty-five American soldiers who were rescued thought they had only been drifting for nine days, but in fact, forty-five years have passed since Earth time.
The sinking of the cruiser Indianapolis is one of the most unfortunate events in American military history. The ship secretly transported atomic bomb parts to Okinawa, and when it set sail for the Philippines, it was suddenly attacked by five mines and sank into the sea. There were always 1 196 people on the deck at that time. Only 25 people were rescued in this shipwreck, and the whereabouts of the remaining 1 17 1 lives are unknown.
In this regard, it is really difficult for us to understand except to explain it by time tunnel.
If the speed of the cruiser is negligible compared with the speed of the earth's rotation (250m/s) according to the comparison of soldiers' nine days and forty-five years, then according to the preliminary calculation, if the cruiser enters the time tunnel, it should reach at least 844.9km/s, which is obviously far from the speed of light. Unfortunately, it is still difficult to do such an experiment at present.
5. Fishermen missing for 24 years.
1990 In August, Yusis, a sailboat that had been missing for 24 years, ran aground on a remote beach and reappeared (the ship was lost in the Bermuda Triangle in a hurricane 24 years ago). Three crew members of the sailboat were rescued by aborigines and sent to Karakas for assistance.
The doctor who examined these three people said: although these three people have experienced so many years, they have not aged at all, as if time had completely stopped for them. "The oldest of the three crew members was 42 years old when he disappeared. He should be sixty-six years old now, but he still looks like he is in his forties and is in excellent health, "said Dr. Bobilo Gutiz.
One of the three crew members, a professional fisherman from Maine, said, "We don't remember anything except the hurricane. At that time, we set sail for the island of Eluba, hoping to catch the marlin rich in the area. However, the sky suddenly changed, and the sky suddenly became overcast, with thunder and lightning and rough waves. We sailed to the shore at once. This is all the experience I know. I also know that our ship ran aground. I asked the indigenous people there before I realized that this year is 1990. At first we thought each other was joking. We set off on 1966 65438+ 10. We originally planned to go fishing for seven days, but I didn't expect to go for twenty-four years! "
Tibby Paulivia is the youngest person 19 years old on board. He said that he remembered that they caught a tuna before hurricane 1966. When they returned to the shore, the authorities sent people aboard to investigate and found tuna in the cabin freezer. The investigator said: "This fish is still very fresh, as if it had just been caught."
The British government consulted the records of 1966 and confirmed that such a sailboat did disappear without a trace for unknown reasons.
There can only be one explanation: the sailboat entered the time tunnel and time slowed down. As for how to enter just visiting? Whether there are UFOs at the scene is still inconclusive. A modern case quite similar to this case is that in the summer of 1994, a passenger plane flying from the Philippines to Italy suddenly disappeared for 20 minutes (disappeared on the radar screen and reappeared) and arrived at the Italian airport 20 minutes later. However, the passengers and crew on board knew nothing, and everyone's watch hands were not late. Did the plane enter the time tunnel or was it influenced by UFOs? It remains to be discussed.
6. New explorations in Bermuda
There are often phenomena in the universe that we don't know yet. 100 for more than a year, the media in various countries have made various statements about the abnormal phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle. Some researchers believe that there is a powerful atmospheric laser at work in this mysterious area.
Some scholars say that there is a sudden magnetic field at work. Others associate the appearance of abnormal phenomena with the so-called aliens who come to visit the earth and dive into the seabed, saying that they have mastered a powerful laser, and anyone who enters the laser field will either die or be restricted by the "fourth dimension", that is, the time tunnel.
Former pilot, now a researcher at Arizona State University, wrote: In those days when the American C- 1 19 large military aircraft disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, the Zemini -IV spacecraft was flying in orbit, and astronaut James Mike and his deputy edward white found a UFO with a grappling device.
They took it at that time. The study of the video shows that the UFOs they found have nothing in common with common satellites. At that time, no one could tell exactly what happened to the astronauts. For a long time, the swallowing of sea water by UFOs, airplanes and ships has become a unique phenomenon in Bermuda. Is that so?
One thing is certain: the situation in the Bermuda Triangle is abnormal and very dangerous. However, Russian scholar and inventor Nikolai Ivanovich Koloviakov has another explanation for this abnormal phenomenon.
According to Koloviakov's hypothesis, the core of the earth is not in the center of the earth, but is constantly moving under the influence of the gravity of the sun, the moon and other planets. The rotation of the core is like rolling under the crust, which will cause the reverse flow of magma between the crust and the core, and as a result, an electromagnetic field will be generated.
In addition, due to the tilt of the earth's rotation axis, the core will move up and down: in the northern hemisphere in summer and in the southern hemisphere in winter. So the equator of the earth's core and the equator of the earth do not coincide, with a difference of 28 latitudes. And this area is precisely the diversion port of magma flow.
Koloviakov "fixed" the equator of the earth's core at 28 degrees north latitude, and it was in this area that nature set many mysterious traps. This area lies within 5 degrees north and 5 degrees south of the earth's equator. If we connect them into a straight line with our imagination, then two regular pentagons will appear before our eyes.
The vertex of the Pentagon is the location of the trap. There, ships and planes will disappear without a trace; The ship that disappeared there was either empty or carrying the bodies of all the crew. Bermuda Triangle is one of the most dangerous traps.
Let's assume that the core begins to move south. Because of its huge mass, it has its own gravitational field like the earth's crust. When the crust and the core rotate synchronously, that is, * * together form the only force field on the earth, there will be no major anomalies on the earth's surface.
However, when the core moves to the other pole, or the rotation of the core does not coincide with the crust, there will be abnormal phenomena on the ground: due to the opposite force, a torrent will suddenly gush out of a calm lake; The magma in the asthenosphere under the earth's crust rises around like a lake vortex, trying to turn the sleeping earth's crust upside down. This is a gravity vortex.
Koloviakov believes that this is the answer to the mystery of Bermuda Triangle. In the volute area, the entrances and exits of light and radio waves are sealed, and no one can receive the radio signals of the victims, and no one can see the lights of searchlights.
Ships caught in the center of the vortex will inevitably lose their driving ability, be helpless and eventually sink. Ships returning from the center of a triangle usually have no crew or passengers.
In this rotating disaster, every living cell will accumulate enormous energy and eventually destroy the cell. The accumulation of energy depends on the direction of the ship's movement. When driving in a reverse vortex, the energy is the greatest and people will die. And people will suffer unbearable sudden pain before they die.
When the course of the ship coincides with the direction of the vortex rotation, the pain will only increase slowly until people lose consciousness. The farther away from the center of the vortex, the weaker this terrible power is. At its periphery, people usually only find instrument anomalies. If the ship and the plane are in the same direction as the vortex, they will gain extra speed and reach the scheduled point ahead of time.
Koloviakov affirmed that the harm caused by gravity vortex exists not only underwater, but also in the air. He calculated the dates when some places on the earth were not suitable for flying, and also made a globe divided into sectors. This instrument can help ocean ships and planes entering abnormal areas get rid of mysterious traps.
1950, a Bermudian named Teddy Tucker first discovered a sunken ship from the New World and its treasures: gold coins and pottery. Bottled wine brewed hundreds of years ago. This sunken ship looks like a food processor that has been sleeping for a hundred years, and it looks like a huge garbage disposal site. Above it, the broken mast floats in the sea. Teddy Tucker's first discovery immediately caused a sensation in the world, and immediately set off an expedition to find sunken ships and treasures in the United States. A large number of archaeologists, historians and explorers came to Bermuda to start their investigation and exploration.
According to a broken and rusty Spanish peseta silver coin found on the sunken ship, the ship sank here in the middle of18th century. Later, experts found barrels of dyes, Philippine mahogany, iron plow wood and some foods, such as raisins and pudding, on other ships.
Bermuda, commonly known as the mysterious island, is because many ships are missing here!
Supplement: British colonies located in the western islands of the North Atlantic. It covers an area of 53 square kilometers. The population is 59,000 (199 1), of which about 6 1% are of African descent, and the rest are of European and North American descent. The official language is English. Most residents believe in Protestantism. Hamilton, the capital.
917km from South Carolina on the east coast of the United States. It consists of 7 main islands and 150 small island reefs, of which about 20 are inhabited. The largest island is Bermuda. These islands are formed by limestone and coral covered on the submarine volcanic cone. There is fertile soil on the surface. The climate is mild and humid, with an annual average temperature of 265,438 0℃ and an annual average precipitation of 65,438 0.470 mm..
The islands were first discovered by Spanish J. Bermuda in 1503. 1684 became a British colony, the earliest British colony in the Commonwealth. 1940 In March, Britain and the United States signed the Administrative Agreement. At the expense of some old destroyers, the United States leased the Morgan, Turkel and St. David in the archipelago for 99 years. The following year, the United States began to establish naval and air bases on the island. 1957 British troops finally withdrew from Bermuda. 1968 Bermuda gained internal self-government. The first general election was held in the same year, and the Bermuda Unity Party won power. 1972 to 1973, serious riots occurred in the islands, and the governor and the commander of the police force were assassinated. 1977 The situation deteriorated further, the authorities declared a state of emergency, and the British army re-entered the island to help quell the unrest.
The current Constitution was promulgated in 1968. 1973 and 1979 were modified twice. According to the Constitution, Bermuda is a British colony with an autonomous government. On behalf of the Queen of England, the Governor is responsible for foreign affairs, national defense and internal security through the Governor's Committee; The Prime Minister is the leader of the parliamentary majority party and is appointed by the Governor. Other ministers are appointed by the Prime Minister; The Cabinet is accountable to Parliament. L. Governor Walton, appointed in April, 1992. Parliament is divided into Senate and House of Representatives. Main political parties: ① Bermuda Unity Party. Established in 1964. (2) Bermuda Progressive Labour Party. Established in 1963. (3) Bermuda National Liberal Party. Established in 1985.
Tourism and international finance are the main economic pillars of Bermuda. Per capita GDP ranks among the top in the world. The currency name is Bermuda dollar. The exchange rate is 1 Bermuda dollar pair 1 USD (1990). Tourism is the pillar of the national economy. The pleasant climate, beautiful scenery, various entertainment facilities and mysterious legends about Bermuda are the main factors that attract tourists. 199 1 year, the total tourism revenue is 454.3 million Bermuda dollars. Financial services are the second largest economic sector. Bermuda has become one of the largest "overseas" financial and commercial centers in the world because of its stable political situation, no foreign exchange restrictions and strict compliance with financial secrecy laws. 199 1 By the end of the year, there were 7,090 international companies registered in Bermuda, most of which were insurance companies. The islands are also the fifth largest ship registry in the world.
Due to the lack of natural resources, there are only small industries such as ship repair, shipbuilding, pharmacy and handicrafts on the island. Mainly grow vegetables, oranges, bananas and so on. 80% of food is imported. There is a shortage of agricultural labor. Bermuda has no railways. The total length of the highway is 240 kilometers. Hamilton, St George's and Freeport on Irish Island are the three main ports. Kendley Airport is the only international airport, which is managed by the US Navy.
Customs duty, corporate tax, stamp duty and land tax are also important sources of government revenue. Government expenditure is mainly used to pay wages. Over the years, there has been a huge surplus in foreign trade. The main imported products are petroleum and petroleum products, food, beverages, machinery and means of transport. The export products are rum, flowers, medicines and petroleum products. The main trade targets are the United States, Britain, Brazil, Japan, Colombia, Sweden, Canada, Switzerland and the Netherlands Antilles.
Public schools provide free compulsory education for children and adolescents aged 5 ~ 16, and provide a large number of scholarships for higher education and teacher training. There is Bermuda College, built at 1972. Newspapers and periodicals include: Royal Daily, Bermuda Sun Weekly, China News Weekly, Bermuda Pictorial Monthly, and Workers' Voice bimonthly. Bermuda Broadcasting Corporation operates two commercial television stations and five radio stations. There is also a St. George broadcasting company. Many places in Bermuda can watch cable TV programs.
Bermuda's diplomacy is in British hands. Bermuda participates in the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization and other international organizations as a member of the British delegation. The United States has a consul general in Bermuda.