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Jamestown, Virginia, USA. After a two-week search for a settlement site, when English colonists moored their ships to trees on the shore of this island, they went ashore and established the first permanent English settlement. The site was chosen because it was defensible, not as ideal land for farming. The island had large sections of wetland, bug infestation, and lack of potable water. In spite of this, they stayed. This is the area immediately inland from the fort site, it portraying the very limitations of the island for a permanent settlement.