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Marsh Harbour has the majority of services available in all of the Abacos, including a post office, bookstore, grocery stores, specialty shops, travel agencies, and laundries. Visitors come to boat, swim or snorkel, and stay at one of the lodges located near Bay Street on the waterfront, though some adventurers reserve a day or two to kayak in ...
Marsh Harbour Airport was the site of a plane crash on 25 August 2001, that claimed the lives of nine passengers, among them R&B singer Aaliyah. [27] The cays can be reached by ferries. The southern cays can be reached from Marsh Harbour and another ferry leaves from the Treasure Cay ferry dock about a half-hour from Marsh Harbour by road.
The Location of the District of Central Abaco. Central Abaco is one of the districts of the Bahamas, in the Abaco Islands.The district contains the largest town in the Abacos, Marsh Harbour, which is the commerce centre for the islands.
A number of workers commute each day from Marsh Harbour. There are two small grocery stores, a marina, a boat yard, a few gift shops, a hardware and lumber store, two restaurants, a bakery, and a gear shop owned and operated by a descendant of the Albury family who makes among other things their famous ditty bags. Golf-carts are rented by ...
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Marsh Harbour is a major tourist attraction. The airport offers scheduled passenger flights to Nassau and several destinations in Florida as well as regional jet flights nonstop to three major U.S. hubs, Atlanta, Charlotte and Miami in the U.S. In 2007 a new runway was built to allow larger, regional jets to operate from Marsh Harbour.
Elbow Cay is located about 4 miles (6.4 kilometres) east of Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island. Most visitors fly into Marsh Harbour and take the ferry to either Hope Town at the Northern end of Elbow Cay or White Sound, a mid-island harbour and settlement developed in 1960. At the Southern end of the island is Tahiti Beach near Doros Cove.
North of the town of Marsh Harbour the orientation of the sea is generally northwest to southeast. South of Marsh Harbour the orientation is north to south. The widest part of the sea can be found just to the northwest of Marsh Harbour, where the width of the sea separating the barrier cays from Great Abaco Island exceeds 10 kilometres (6 miles).