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2. Sea of Abaco - Wikipedia

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   The Sea of Abaco (sometimes Abaco Sound), located in The Bahamas, is an approximately 100 kilometres (62 miles) long saltwater lagoon separating Great Abaco Island (known locally as the 'mainland') from a chain of barrier islands known as the Abaco Cays. Depths in the Sea of Abaco are generally a few metres, and shallow reefs and shoals can ...

3. Abaco Islands - Wikipedia

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   The Turin map of 1523 clearly shows Abaco, then named Iucayonique. The Turin map remained the most accurate map of the area until the Bahamas' first English maps were produced. [citation needed] Both John White's map of 1590 and Thomas Hood's map of 1592 show the islands, as did a map produced in 1630 by the Dutchman de Laet. At this time, the ...

4. Tongue of the Ocean - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. The Bahamas - Wikipedia

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   Map of the Bahamas Most of the Bahamas are the above-water part of the Bahama Banks (light blue). During the ice ages these would have been two large islands The landmass that makes up what is the modern-day Bahamas, lies at the northern part of the Greater Antilles region and was believed to have been formed 200 million years ago when they ...

6. Geography of the Bahamas - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. List of countries and territories by maritime boundaries

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   Bahamas: 4 4 4 Cuba Haiti Turks and Caicos Islands [e] (United Kingdom) United States Bahrain: 3 3 3 Iran (T) Qatar (J) Saudi Arabia (T) Baker Island [f] and Howland Island [f] (United States) 1 1 1 Kiribati Bangladesh: 2 2 2 Myanmar India Barbados: 5 5 4 Guadeloupe [l] (T) Martinique [l] (T) Saint Lucia

8. Nautical chart - Wikipedia

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   A pre-Mercator nautical chart of 1571, from Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado (c. 1520 – c. 1580). It belongs to the so-called plane chart model, where observed latitudes and magnetic directions are plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth's surface were a flat plane (Portuguese National Archives of ...

9. Hogsty Reef - Wikipedia

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   8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) ... Fl W 4s. Hogsty Reef is an uninhabited coral atoll located in the southern Bahamas. It is located between Great Inagua ...