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The name Bahamas is derived from the Lucayan name Bahama ('large upper middle island'), used by the Indigenous Taíno people for the island of Grand Bahama. [20] [21] Tourist guides often state that the name comes from the Spanish baja mar ('shallow sea'). Wolfgang Ahrens of York University argues that this is a folk etymology. [20]
An enlargeable basic map of The Bahamas. Pronunciation: Common English country names: The Bahamas or the Bahama Islands; Official English country name: The Commonwealth of The Bahamas; Common endonym(s): Official endonym(s): Adjectival(s): Bahamian; Demonym(s): ISO country codes: BS, BHS, 044; ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:BS
The Bahamas map of Köppen climate classification. The climate of the Bahama islands is mostly tropical savanna , with two seasons, a hot and wet summer (wet season) and dry winter (dry season). During the wet season, which extends from May through October, the climate is dominated by warm, moist tropical air masses [ 1 ] as the Bermuda High ...
A map of The Bahamas. The following is an alphabetical list of the islands and cays of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. [1] [2] [3. A Abaco Island; Abner Cay; Abraham ...
City/Town Coordinates Pop. 1990 (census) Pop. 2009 (est.) [1] Island Nassau: 172,196 238,132 New Providence: Freeport: 35,650 47,085 Grand Bahama: West End
In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This is an expanse (mostly of ocean) which measures about 1,000 miles (1,600 ...
Lucayan National Park. The Indigenous Lucayan people's name for the island was Bahama ('large upper middle island'). [8] [9] Grand Bahama's existence for almost two centuries was largely governed by the nature of the treacherous coral reefs surrounding the island, which repelled its Spanish claimants (who largely left it alone apart from infrequent en route stops by ships for provisions) while ...
The Andros Barrier Reef [18] is the world's sixth longest. [19] It runs for 225 km (140 mi), averaging a distance of 2–3 km (1–2 mi) from the Andros shore. [20] The extensive flats of the Great Bahama Bank lie to the west, northwest and south of Andros. The island has the world's largest collection of blue holes. [21]