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  2. Abaco Islands - Wikipedia

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    Abaco Islands. The Abaco Islands lie in the north of The Bahamas, about 193 miles (167.7 nautical miles or 310.6 km) east of Miami, Florida. The main islands are Great Abaco and Little Abaco, which is just west of Great Abaco's northern tip. [3] There are several smaller barrier cays, of which the northernmost are Walker's Cay and its sister ...

  3. Marsh Harbour - Wikipedia

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    Marsh Harbour is a town in Abaco Islands, Bahamas, with a population of 6,283 as of 2012. [3] The settlement lies on a peninsula just off the Great Abaco Highway, which runs south through Great Abaco to Cherokee Point and Little Harbour. North of town, the road becomes S.C. Bootle Highway, another smooth stretch that runs north and west toward ...

  4. Elbow Cay - Wikipedia

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    Elbow Cay. Elbow Cay is an five-mile-long (8.0-kilometre) cay in the Abaco Islands of The Bahamas. Originally populated by British loyalists fleeing the newly independent United States of America in 1785, it has survived on fishing, boat building, and salvage. Its main village of Hope Town surrounds a protected harbor with a noted red-and-white ...

  5. History of the Bahamas - Wikipedia

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    The earliest arrival of people in the islands now known as The Bahamas was in the first millennium AD. The first inhabitants of the islands were the Lucayans, an Arawakan language -speaking Taino people, who arrived between about 500 and 800 AD from other islands of the Caribbean. Recorded history began on 12 October 1492, when Christopher ...

  6. Man-O-War Cay - Wikipedia

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    It is one of the early Loyalist settlements in The Abacos. Beginning in 1798, its residents started farming. Early 19th century settlers Benjamin and Eleanor Albury account for 70% of the island's current Alburys. On September 1, 2019, Hurricane Dorian made landfall on Man-O-War Cay in the Abaco Islands after 16:00 UTC with winds of 185 mph ...

  7. Hope Town - Wikipedia

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    Hope Town is one of the districts of The Bahamas, on the Abaco islands as well as a small village on Elbow Cay, located in Abaco. The area had a population of 458 in 2010. [1] Golf carts are the district's main mode of transportation, while most of the supplies for the area are brought in by barge each week.

  8. Pelican Cays Land and Sea Park - Wikipedia

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    bnt.bs /pelican-cays-land-and-sea-park /. Pelican Cays Land and Sea Park is a national park in Central Abaco, the Abaco Islands, the Bahamas. The park was established in 1972 and has an area of 2,100 acres (8 km 2). [2] The park's marine environment contains an extensive coral reef and undersea cave habitat, which provide opportunities for ...

  9. Abaco Independence Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Abaco Independence Movement ( AIM) was a Bahamian political party formed shortly after the Bahamas became independent in August 1973. Its stated aim was self-determination for the Abaco islands within a federal Bahamas. [1] In October 1973, AIM published a newsletter to launch its campaign for 'self-determination through legal and peaceful ...

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