t s simple geometry A triangle is a shape with three corners and straight sides But nothing is simple about the Bermuda Triangle For one thing the Bermuda Triangle is not labeled on any maps That s because the United States government and others who make maps don't acknowledge that it exists But it might also be because the Bermuda Triangle can assume many shapes It s a different place to different people In most discussions the Bermuda Triangle is what author Vincent Gaddis described in his 1964 article in Argosy magazine in which he coined the term It's basically the area of the Atlantic Ocean with Miami Florida on one corner Bermuda on another and Puerto Rico on the third Hundreds of ships and planes have disappeared in that region in the last So two centuries The area outlined by those corners covers 500 000 square miles 1 295 000 sq km an area slightly bigger than California Oregon Washington and Montana put
BERMUD A TRIANGLE But since Gaddis's article the legend of the Bermuda Triangle has Before the Bermuda Triangle was named sometimes loomed even larger Some have described the borders as forming tales existed of seafaring vessels forever lost to a an irregular shape that would include much of the southeastern coast of mysterious area in the the U S from the Florida Keys to as far north as Wilmington North Atlantic Ocean Carolina then it would extend east beyond Bermuda south into the West Indies and northeast to include the waters around Cuba Haiti and Jamaica coming close to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula Some incidents attributed to the Bermuda Triangle occurred outside even those generous borders approaching the Azores a cluster of islands in the Atlantic that is far closer to Europe and Africa than to Florida Puerto Rico or Bermuda This much larger area has been called the Limbo of the Lost a term first used by author John Wallace Spencer in 1973 and today the title of a well known video adventure game The Bermuda Triangle and the sea around it has come to be known
