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The Bahama Banks are the submerged carbonate platforms located in the archipelago of The Bahamas within the Lucayan Archipelago. The term is usually applied in referring to either the Great Bahama Bank around Andros Island , or the Little Bahama Bank of Grand Bahama Island and Great Abaco , which are the largest of the platforms, and the Cay ...
Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of The Bahamas.It is the third largest island in The Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays. The island is roughly 530 square miles (1,400 km 2) in area and approximately 153 kilometres (95 miles) long west to east and 24 kilometres (15 miles) at its widest point north to south.
The islands are surface projections of two oceanic Bahama Banks - the Little Bahama Bank and the Great Bahama Bank. [1] The highest point is only 63 metres (207 feet) above sea level on Cat Island; the island of New Providence, where the capital city of Nassau is located, reaches a maximum elevation of only thirty-seven meters.
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]
To the north and northeast is the Great Bahama Bank and the Bahama Islands; and to the south the bank on which the island of Cuba rests. The Old Bahama Channel is connected at its north-western extremity end to the Florida Straits by two arms, enclosing Cay Sal Bank, of which the northern is called Santaren Channel and the southern Nicholas ...
6 Cay Sal Bank. 7 Crooked Island. 8 Eleuthera. ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Grand Bahama Fl W 6s. 7 metres (23 ft) ...
The Bahamas, the first country in the world to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC), is now preparing regulations that will require commercial banks to provide access to the e-money in a ...
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