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Arawak Cay, also referred to as Fish Fry, is a 100-acre man-made island in Nassau, The Bahamas. It was built from Nassau Harbour dredging spoils in 1969, and shipping operations began in the 1980s. In 2011, Nassau Container Port was built on Arawak Cay. [1] [2] Today, the area around the cay is known for its local eateries [3] on West Bay ...
Nassau Container Port is a major container port in Nassau, The Bahamas. 20% of Nassau Container Port port is owned by 11,000 members of the Bahamian public, 40% of the port is owned by the government of The Bahamas, and 40% is held by Arawak Cay Port Development Holdings Limited, a consortium of private investors from the shipping industry. [1]
Little Romers Cay; Little Sale Cay; Little San Salvador (Half Moon Cay) - a private island, owned by Carnival Corporation; Little Stirrup Cay - renamed Coco Cay, a private island, leased by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Little Walker Cay; Little Wax Cay; Little Whale Cay; Lizard Cay; Lobster Cay; Lockhart Cay; Loggerhead Cay; Lone Pine Cay; Long ...
Nothing's there right now -- well, except for Dean's Blue Hole, classified as one of the top 77 Natural Wonders of the World. It's a 663-foot-deep seawater hole reportedly named after nearby ...
Nassau had a population of 128,420 females and 117,909 males and was home to 70,222 households with an average family size of 3.5 according to the 2010 census. [19] Nassau's large population in relation to the remainder of the Bahamas is the result of waves of immigration from the Family Islands to the capital. Consequently, this has led to the ...
Prior to the late 19th century the island's lagoon was a salt marsh and was referred to legally as Salt Cay. The Island became a stopover for pirates and privateers who used the island to cull salt from the lagoon to preserve their food and as a rest stop while they waited for permission to enter Nassau Harbour.
The wreck of the 101-gun man of war HMS Conqueror, built in Devon in 1855 and which served in the Crimean War, lies in 30 feet of water off Rum Cay. She was lost on Sumner Point Reef, Rum Cay, on December 13, 1861. All 1,400 aboard survived. The wreck is preserved as the Underwater Museum of the Bahamas. It is the property of The Bahamas ...
Great Stirrup Cay, along with the rest of the Bahamas, was formed by tectonic and glacial shifting. The first known settlers to the Bahamas were the Lucayan people, relatives of the Arawaks who populated the Caribbean around 600 A.D. Great Stirrup was a pirate hideout while the British settled in Nassau and the larger islands until 1815. This ...