Agar's Island

Bermuda / Hamilton / остров Агара
Once, it was owned and run by the British military. The British Army built Bermuda's largest gunpowder magazine on it in 1870, entirely underground. Bermuda's first aquarium was here in the 1920's, as the forerunner to the Bermuda Aquarium, Natural History Museum and Zoo in Hamilton Parish. The island has guest houses, a beach area, a swimming pool, tennis and squash courts and docks. Now the island is privately owned by British author and multi-millionaire James Martin who wrote The Wired Society and is a much-respected futurologist. He has built a multi-million dollar development here, including an eye-catching atrium. It is a dramatic new home amid the ruins of the 19th-century fort. Douglas Hedley-Coates was the architect who supervised its construction and transformed the island’s quarries into ponds. A 19th-century latrine became an orchid house. A formal garden was installed on the roof of the old gunpowder magazine. The pumping engines of an aquarium, destroyed in a hurricane in 1922, were recovered and turned into ornamental features. Martin, now in his 70s, divides his time between a mountaintop estate in Vermont, a home in South Africa, and this island.

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Coordinates:   32°17'38"N   64°48'34"W

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  • Pictures 1 and 2 were taken when Agar's Island was home to the aquarium.
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