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The Bahamas is expected to be highly affected by sea level rise because at least 80% of the total land is below 10 meters elevation. [19] [20] As a small island developing state, the Bahamas is vulnerable to escalating disease outbreaks, and climate change could affect the seasonality of outbreaks and transmission of disease. [21]
In 2016, the Bahamas had 9.2 global hectares [123] of biocapacity per person within its territory, much more than the world average of 1.6 global hectares per person. [124] In 2016 the Bahamas used 3.7 global hectares of biocapacity per person – their ecological footprint of consumption. This means they use less biocapacity than the Bahamas ...
The slopes around them however, such as the border of the Tongue of the Ocean in the Great Bahama Bank, are very steep. The Banks were dry land during past ice ages , when sea level was as much as 120 meters (390 feet) lower than at present; the land area of the Bahamas today thus represents only a small fraction of their prehistoric extent.
Underwater dunes, Bahamas. Tongue of the Ocean is just above this closeup. Photo: NASA. The Tongue of the Ocean (TOTO) is the name of a region of much deeper water in the Bahamas separating the islands of Andros and New Providence.
Atlantic Ocean North Atlantic Ocean. Caribbean. West Indies. Lucayan Archipelago; Time zone: Eastern Standard Time , Eastern Daylight Time ; Extreme points of the Bahamas High: Mount Alvernia on Cat Island 63 m (207 ft) Low: North Atlantic Ocean 0 m; Land boundaries: none; Coastline: North Atlantic Ocean 3,542 km
The Blake Basin, also called the Blake–Bahama Basin, is a deep area of the Atlantic Ocean which runs along the east coast of the United States.It starts at the northern part of the Bahamas and continues up toward New York.
The geology of the Bahamas has been researched since the mid-19th century. The islands include Aeolian sands and limestone built on the basement rock of the Florida-Bahamas Platform. The islands are used to infer sea levels based on the arrangement of reef deposits.
The Lucayan Archipelago, also known as the Bahamian Archipelago, is an island group comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The archipelago is in the western North Atlantic Ocean, north of Cuba and the other Antillean Islands, and east and south-east of Florida.