Hawkins Island, Bermuda

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Hawkins Island is a small island within the Great Sound, Bermuda of Bermuda. It lies in the southeast of the sound, and is in the north of Warwick Parish.

Originally named Elizabeth's or Tatem Island, it was re-named in 1809. Now privately owned, it was formerly the property of the Royal Navy, and was a Boer War prisoner of war camp from 1901 to 1902. It is the most easterly of the group of islands stretching across the sound from the Salt Kettle peninsula.