List of Bahamas-related articles
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The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

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  • .bs
    .bs
    .bs is the Internet country code top-level domain for the Bahamas. It is administered by the College of the Bahamas.-Second level domains:There are five Second Level Domains:*com.bs: Commercial Entities*net.bs: Network Providers...

     – Internet
    Internet
    The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

     country code top-level domain
    Country code top-level domain
    A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....

     for the Bahamas
  • 1926 Miami Hurricane
    1926 Miami Hurricane
    The 1926 Miami hurricane was a Category 4 hurricane that devastated Miami in September 1926. The storm also caused significant damage in the Florida Panhandle, the U.S. state of Alabama, and the Bahamas...

  • 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
    1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
    The Okeechobee hurricane, or San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was a deadly hurricane that struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida in September of the 1928 Atlantic hurricane season...

  • 1929 Florida Hurricane
    1929 Florida Hurricane
    The 1929 Bahamas Hurricane was the second hurricane and the only major hurricane during the very inactive 1929 Atlantic hurricane season. The hurricane was the only hurricane to cause any significant damage, resulting in $676,000 in damage...

  • 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane
    1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane
    The Fort Lauderdale Hurricane was an intense Category 5 hurricane that affected the Bahamas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi in September of the 1947 Atlantic hurricane season...


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  • Aaron Cleare
    Aaron Cleare
    Aaron Cleare is a Bahamian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres. He was a member of the Bahamian 4 x 400 metres relay team that finished 6th in the 2004 Olympics....

  • Abaco Islands
    Abaco Islands
    The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas and comprise the main islands of Great Abaco and Little Abaco, together with the smaller Wood Cay, Elbow Cay, Lubbers Quarters Cay, Green Turtle Cay, Great Guana Cay, Castaway Cay, Man-o-War Cay, Stranger's Cay, Umbrella Cay, Walker's Cay, Little Grand...

  • Abraham's Bay
    Abraham's Bay
    Abraham's Bay is a town in the Bahamas. It is located on Mayaguana island....

  • Acklins and Crooked Islands
    Acklins and Crooked Islands
    Acklins and Crooked Islands was a district of the Bahamas until 1996, and as Acklins, Crooked Island and Long Cay until 1999....

  • Acklins
    Acklins
    Acklins is an island and district of the Bahamas.It is one of a group of islands arranged along a large, shallow lagoon called the Bight of Acklins, of which the largest are Crooked Island in the north and Acklins in the southeast, and the smaller are Long Cay [ 8sq mi] in the northwest, and...

  • Airports in the Bahamas
  • Alex Smith
    Alex Smith
    Alexander Douglas Smith is a professional American football player and starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. Smith was drafted with the 1st-overall pick in the 1st round of the 2005 NFL Draft by San Francisco from the University of Utah...

    , son of Ed Smith
  • Alice Town
    Alice Town
    Alice Town is a town in the Bahamas. It is located on North Bimini island. It is the centre of the tourist trade on the island: there are several hotels, bars and restaurants. North of Alice Town is the main settlement called Bailey Town. To the north of Bailey Town is Porgy Bay....

  • Americas
    Americas
    The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...

    • North America
      North America
      North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

      • Northern America
        Northern America
        Northern America is the northernmost region of the Americas, and is part of the North American continent. It lies directly north of the region of Middle America; the land border between the two regions coincides with the border between the United States and Mexico...

        • North Atlantic Ocean
          • West Indies
            • Lucayan Archipelago
              Lucayan archipelago
              The Lucayan Archipelago, as defined by Julian Granberry, consists of the islands of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and of the Turks and Caicos Islands...

              • Bahama Islands
  • Andrae Williams
    Andrae Williams
    Andrae Williams is a Bahamian athlete.-2004:In the 2004 Olympic Games, Williams was a member of the Bahamian 4 x 400 metres relay team that finished 6th.-2005:...

  • Andros, Bahamas
    Andros, Bahamas
    Andros Island is an archipelago within the archipelago-nation of the Bahamas, the largest of the 26 inhabited Bahamian Islands. Geo-politically considered a single island, Andros has an area greater than all the other 700 Bahamian islands combined...

  • Anglo-America
    Anglo-America
    Anglo-America is a region in the Americas in which English is a main language, or one which has significant British historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural links...

  • Area code 242
    Area code 242
    Area code 242 is the local telephone area code of The Bahamas. The 242 area code, or BHA, was created during a split from the original 809 area code which was done in October 1996....

  • Arthur Dion Hanna
    Arthur Dion Hanna
    Arthur Dion "A.D." Hanna is a Bahamian politician who served as Governor-General of the Bahamas from 2006 to 2010.Hanna has been active in Bahamian politics since the 1950s...

  • Arthur Foulkes
    Arthur Foulkes
    Sir Arthur Alexander Foulkes, GCMG is the Governor-General of the Bahamas.Foulkes was elected to the House of Assembly in 1967 and served in the government of Lynden Pindling as Minister of Communications and Minister of Tourism...

  • Arthur Hailey
    Arthur Hailey
    Arthur Hailey was a British/Canadian novelist.- Biography :Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada. Hailey's last novel, Detective , is a mystery told from the perspective of a...

  • Arthur's Town
    Arthur's Town
    Arthur's Town is a town in the Bahamas and has a population of 400 . It is located on Cat Island.Arthur's Town Airport is located in the town....

  • Atlantic Ocean
    Atlantic Ocean
    The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...

  • Atlantis Paradise Island
    Atlantis Paradise Island
    The Atlantis Paradise Island is a resort and waterpark located on Paradise Island, The Bahamas. Officially opened in 1998, the resort was created by South African hotel magnate Sol Kerzner and Kerzner International Limited. Paradise Island first opened its Coral and Beach Towers as the Trump...

  • Atlas of the Bahamas
  • Avard Moncur
    Avard Moncur
    Avard Moncur is a Bahamian athlete competing in the 400 metres. He was born in Nassau.Moncur's most successful year came in 2001 when he won the gold medal in the 400m and the 4x400m relay at the 2001 World Championships...


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  • Baha Mar
    Baha Mar
    Baha Mar is a resort located on the island of New Providence, The Bahamas owned by Baha Mar Resorts Ltd. and managed by CEO Sarkis Izmirlian. On 30 March 2010 an agreement on the redevelopment of the resort was announced. The project will be financed by China Exim Bank while construction will be...

  • Baha Men
    Baha Men
    The Baha Men are Bahamian singers in a Bahamian band. They play a modernised style of Bahamian music called Junkanoo.-Early career as High Voltage :...

  • Bahama Banks
    Bahama Banks
    The Bahama Banks are the submerged carbonate platforms that make up much of the Bahama 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...

  • Bahama Islands
  • The Bahamas
    The Bahamas
    The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

  • Bahamas at the 1956 Summer Olympics
    Bahamas at the 1956 Summer Olympics
    The Bahamas competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.- Bronze:* Sloan Farrington and Durward Knowles — Sailing, Star class-Athletics:Men's 100 metres*Tom Robinson-References:***...

  • Bahamas at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
    Bahamas at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
    The Bahamas was represented at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff by one competitor, Tom Robinson, who won gold in the 200 yards dash and silver in the 100 yards dash....

  • Bahamas at the 1964 Summer Olympics
    Bahamas at the 1964 Summer Olympics
    The Bahamas competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The nation won its first ever Olympic gold medal.- Gold:* Durward Knowles and Cecil Cooke — Sailing, Star Class-Athletics:Men's 100 metres*Tom Robinson-References:***...

  • Bahamas at the 1988 Summer Olympics
    Bahamas at the 1988 Summer Olympics
    The Bahamas competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.- Athletics :Men's Long Jump* Steve Hanna* Qualification — 7.54m Men's Discus Throw* Bradley Cooper...

  • Bahamas at the 1992 Summer Olympics
    Bahamas at the 1992 Summer Olympics
    - Bronze:* Frank Rutherford — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump- Athletics:Men's High Jump*Troy Kemp*Ian ThompsonMen's Triple Jump*Frank Rutherford* Qualification — 17.28 m* Final — 17.36 m *Wendell Lawrence...

  • Bahamas at the 1996 Summer Olympics
    Bahamas at the 1996 Summer Olympics
    The Bahamas competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.- Silver:* Eldece Clark-Lewis, Chandra Sturrup, Sevatheda Fynes and Pauline Davis-Thompson — Athletics, Women's 4×100 metres relay-Athletics:Men's 4x400m Relay...

  • Bahamas at the 2000 Summer Olympics
    Bahamas at the 2000 Summer Olympics
    - Gold:*Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson, Sevatheda Fynes, and Chandra Sturrup — Athletics, Women's 4x100 m relay*Pauline Davis-Thompson — Athletics, Women's 200 m-Athletics:Men's 100m* Renward Wells*# Round 1 - 10.47...

  • Bahamas at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
    Bahamas at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
    Bahamas at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was represented by Bahamas Olympic Association and abbreviated BAH.Bahamas first attended the Commonwealth Games back in 1954 in Vancouver, Canada, although this coral archipelago of around 700 islands did not join the Commonwealth until 1973.Since its...

  • Bahamas at the 2004 Summer Olympics
    Bahamas at the 2004 Summer Olympics
    The Bahamas competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Bahamian athletes are traditionally strongest in the track and field events, where numerous athletes, including Tonique Williams-Darling, Chandra Sturrup, Debbie Ferguson, and Chris Brown all entered the Games as medal contenders in...

  • Bahamas at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
    Bahamas at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
    The Bahamas is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a xx-member strong contingent comprising 28 sportspersons and xx officials.-Silver:* Laverne Eve — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw...

  • Bahamas Democratic Movement
    Bahamas Democratic Movement
    The Bahamas Democratic Movement was a liberal populist political party in the Bahamas without parliamentary representation.-Party formation:...

  • Bahamas Electricity Corporation
    Bahamas Electricity Corporation
    The Bahamas Electricity Corporation - is a government corporation that provides electricity to all of the Bahama Islands except for Grand Bahama. The current Minister in charge is the Minister of Public Works and Utilities, the Hon. Phenton Neymour and General Manager Kevin Basden...

  • Bahamas Football Association
    Bahamas Football Association
    The Bahamas Football Association is the official football federation in The Bahamas. It was founded in 1967 for men, women, and children to learn more about football. It affiliated with FIFA in 1968 and CONCACAF in 1981. The headquarters are in Nassau. The federation is also in charge of its...

  • Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union
    Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union
    Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union is a trade union organizing employees in the tourism sector in The Bahamas.Leadership:*President: Roy Colebrooke*1st Vice President:*General Secretary: Leo DouglasThe union is affiliated to IUF....

  • Bahamas national football team
    Bahamas national football team
    The Bahamas national football team is the national team of the Bahamas and is controlled by the Bahamas Football Association.-World Cup record:*1930 to 1994 – Did not enter*1998 – Withdrew*2002 to 2010 – Did not qualify*2014 – Withdrew...

  • Bahamas Shrimp Wranglers
    Bahamas Shrimp Wranglers
    Bahamas Shrimp Wranglers are a Grand Bahama Football League team that came in 3rd place during the 2005 Season....

  • Bahamas Taxi Cab Union
    Bahamas Taxi Cab Union
    Bahamas Taxi Cab Union is a trade union organizing taxi drivers in the Bahamas.The former Governor-General of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Clifford Darling, was at one point a cab driver, and served as both the general secretary and president of the Bahamas Taxi Cab union....

  • Bahamasair
    Bahamasair
    Bahamasair Holdings Limited, operating as Bahamasair, is an airline based in the Bahamasair House in Nassau, Bahamas. It is the national airline and operates domestic scheduled services to 15 destinations and regional scheduled services to Havana and four cities in Florida. Its main base is Lynden...

  • Bahamas-Nantucket Hurricane of 1932
    Bahamas-Nantucket Hurricane of 1932
    The 1932 Bahamas Hurricane was a powerful Category 5 hurricane that struck the Bahamas at peak intensity. The storm never made landfall on the continental United States, but its effects were felt in the northeast part of the country and in the Bahamas, especially on the Abaco Islands, where damage...

  • Bahamian diplomatic missions
  • Bahamian dollar
    Bahamian dollar
    The dollar has been the currency of The Bahamas since 1966. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively B$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. It is divided into 100 cents....

  • Bahamian musicians
  • Bahamian pound
    Bahamian pound
    The pound was the currency of the Bahamas until 1966. It was equivalent to the pound sterling and was divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. Ordinary UK coinage circulated...

  • Bahamians
  • BaTelCo (Bahamas)
    BaTelCo (Bahamas)
    BaTelCo is the primary telecommunications provider for the Bahamas. It is fully government owned and offers telephone, internet and wireless services.BaTelCo is an acronym for the Bahamas Telecommunications Company, now simply referred to as BTC...

  • Battle of Nassau
    Battle of Nassau
    The Battle of Nassau was a naval action and amphibious assault by American forces against the British port of Nassau, Bahamas during the American Revolutionary War...

  • Berry Islands
    Berry Islands
    The Berry Islands are a chain of islands and a district of the Bahamas, covering about thirty square miles of the north western part of the Out Islands...

  • Betsy Boze
    Betsy Boze
    Betsy Vogel Boze , is the president of The College of The Bahamas]].She previously served as the CEO of Kent State University Stark and as a Senior Fellow at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities researching national higher education policies, including alternative revenue...

  • Bimini
    Bimini
    Bimini is the westernmost district of the Bahamas composed of a chain of islands located about 53 miles due east of Miami, Florida. Bimini is the closest point in the Bahamas to the mainland United States and approximately 137 miles west-northwest of Nassau...

  • Bimini Road
    Bimini Road
    The Bimini Road, sometimes called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater rock formation near North Bimini island in the Bahamas. The Road consists of a -long northeast-southwest linear feature composed of roughly rectangular to subrectangular limestone blocks....

  • Black Point (Bahamas)
    Black Point (Bahamas)
    Black Point is one of the districts of the Bahamas....

  • Blue Lagoon Island
    Blue Lagoon Island
    Blue Lagoon Island is a private island located 5 km from Nassau, Bahamas and serves as a local tourist attraction.-History:Prior to the late 19th century the island's lagoon was a salt marsh and was referred to legally as Salt Cay...

  • Brent Symonette
    Brent Symonette
    Brent Symonette is a prominent Bahamian businessman, a Member of Parliament for the St. Annes constituency, and the current Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Bahamas. He is a member of the Free National Movement ....


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  • Capital of the Bahamas: Nassau
    Nassau, Bahamas
    Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 248,948 , 70 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas...

     on New Providence
    New Providence
    New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It also houses the national capital city, Nassau.The island was originally under Spanish control following Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World, but the Spanish government showed...

  • Caribbean
    Caribbean
    The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

  • Caribbean Community
    Caribbean Community
    The Caribbean Community is an organisation of 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies. CARICOM's main purposes are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy...

     (CARICOM)
  • Castaway Cay
    Castaway Cay
    'Castaway Cay' is a private island in the Bahamas which serves as an exclusive port for the Disney Cruise Line ships Disney Wonder, Disney Magic, Disney Dream, and Disney Fantasy. It is located near Great Abaco Island, and was formerly known as Gorda Cay...

  • Cat Island (Bahamas)
    Cat Island (Bahamas)
    Cat Island is in the central Bahamas, and one of its districts, and has the nation's highest point. Its Mount Alvernia rises to 206 ft and is topped by a monastery called The Hermitage. This assembly of buildings was erected by the Franciscan "Brother Jerome" .The first European settlers were...

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  • Central Abaco
    Central Abaco
    Central Abaco is one of the districts of the Bahamas, in the Abaco Islands. The district contains the largest town in the Abacos, Marsh Harbour, which is the commerce centre for the islands.Some of the more noticeable settlements are:* Little Harbour...

  • Central Andros
    Central Andros
    Central Andros is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on Andros Island. Its current Chief Councillor is Mr. Deon Sweeting. The Member of Parliament for this District is Minister Picewell Forbes.Central Andros is known for its large concentration of blue holes and wide area of bone fishing flats....

  • Central Eleuthera
    Central Eleuthera
    Central Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera....


  • Chandra Sturrup
    Chandra Sturrup
    Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...

  • Chris Brown (athlete)
  • Christine Amertil
    Christine Amertil
    Christine Amertil is a Bahamian athlete competing mainly in the 400 metres. She graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University.- Achievements :*2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships - bronze medal...

  • Cities in the Bahamas
  • Clarence Town
    Clarence Town
    Clarence Town is a town in the Bahamas. It is located on Long Island.Clarence Town is the capital of Long Island and has a population of approximately 350 people. It has a marina, two restaurants as well as the government dock where the mail boat docks on a weekly basis...

  • Clifford Darling
    Clifford Darling
    Sir Clifford Darling GCVO was the fourth Governor-General of the Bahamas from 1992 until his retirement on January 2, 1995. Prior to this, he was a Senator from 1964–67, Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly from 1967-69, Minister of: State in 1969, Labour and Welfare in 1971 and Labour and...

  • Coalition for Democratic Reform
  • Coat of arms of the Bahamas
    Coat of arms of the Bahamas
    The coat of arms of the Bahamas contains a shield with the national symbols as its focal point, the shield is supported by a marlin and flamingo....

  • College of the Bahamas
    College of the Bahamas
    The College of The Bahamas is the national public institution of higher education in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas with campuses throughout the archipelago. The main campus is located in the capital city of Nassau, on the island of New Providence....

  • Colonel Hill
    Colonel Hill
    Colonel Hill is a town in the Bahamas, located on Crooked Island....

  • Colonial Heads of the Bahamas
    Colonial heads of the Bahamas
    This is a list of colonial heads of the Bahamas. The first English settlement in the Bahamas was on Eleuthera. In 1670, the king granted the Bahamas to the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, but the islands were left to themselves. The local pirates proclaimed a 'Privateers'...

  • Commonwealth of Nations
    Commonwealth of Nations
    The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...

  • Commonwealth of the Bahamas
  • Commonwealth of the Bahamas Trade Union Congress
    Commonwealth of the Bahamas Trade Union Congress
    Commonwealth of the Bahamas Trade Union Congress is a central trade union federation in The Bahamas.Leadership:*President: Obie Ferguson Jr.*General Secretary: Timothy Moore...

  • Commonwealth realm
    Commonwealth Realm
    A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth of Nations that has Elizabeth II as its monarch and head of state. The sixteen current realms have a combined land area of 18.8 million km² , and a population of 134 million, of which all, except about two million, live in the six...

     of the Bahamas
  • Communications in the Bahamas
    Communications in the Bahamas
    Telephones - main lines in use: 132,900 county comparison to the world: 135Telephones - mobile cellular: 374,000 county comparison to the world: 155Telephone system:general assessment: modern facilities...

  • Companies of the Bahamas
  • Conception Island, Bahamas
  • Conch (people)
    Conch (people)
    Conch , was originally a slang term for native Bahamians of European descent.Several theories have been proposed for the origin of the term:*After the American Revolution, many loyalists migrated to the Bahamas...

  • R.E. Cooper, Sr. (Baptist Clergy and Civil Rights Activist)
  • Coopers Town
    Coopers Town
    Coopers Town is a city in Abaco, the third largest island of the Bahamas.The town is the northernmost of the island's main centres of population. It was settled in the 1870s by the Cooper family from Grand Bahama. Early industry included pineapple and sea-sponge harvesting, but both industries have...

  • Cornishtown
  • Craig Hepburn
    Craig Hepburn
    Craig Daniel Hepburn is a retired male long jumper from the Bahamas, best known for finishing 13th at the 1992 Olympic Games. His personal best is 8.41 metres, achieved in June 1993 in Nassau. This is the national record. -Achievements:...

  • Crooked Island (Bahamas)
    Crooked Island (Bahamas)
    Crooked Island is an island and district, part of a group of Bahamian islands defining a large, shallow lagoon called the Bight of Acklins, of which the largest are Crooked Island in the north and Acklins in the south-east, and the smaller are Long Cay in the north-west, and Castle Island in the...

  • Culture of the Bahamas
    Culture of the Bahamas
    Bahamian culture is a hybrid of African, European, and other cultures. During the past thirty years the culture has become increasingly influenced by the Hip-Hop culture of United States....


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  • Debbie Ferguson
    Debbie Ferguson
    Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is a Bahamian sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She had her first major successes with the Bahamian 4×100 metres relay team, winning gold at the Pan American Games and World Championships in Athletics in 1999, and taking another gold at the Olympic...

  • Demographics of the Bahamas
    Demographics of the Bahamas
    This article is about the demographic features of the population of The Bahamas, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....

  • Dennis Darling
    Dennis Darling
    Dennis Darling is a Bahamian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres. He is currently track and field Assistant Coach at Texas Christian University....

  • Devard Darling
    Devard Darling
    Devard Loran Darling is a Bahamian-American wide receiver of American football who is currently a member of the Houston Texans. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Florida State University and Washington State...

  • Districts of the Bahamas
    Districts of the Bahamas
    Local government in the Bahamas exists in two forms, namely second-schedule and third-schedule district councils. There are a total of 32 local government districts: 13 second-schedule districts, which are further sub-divided into town areas, and 19 third-schedule districts, which are all unitary...

  • Dominic Demeritte
    Dominic Demeritte
    Dominic Demeritte is a sprints athlete who specializes in the 200 metres.He became indoor world champion in 2004, his result 20.66 a new Bahamian record...

  • Dolphin Encounters
    Dolphin Encounters
    Dolphin Encounters is a natural seawater dolphin facility located on Blue Lagoon Island, , Nassau, Bahamas. The company started as a rescue facility in 1989. The beach scenes in the movie Splash were taped on Blue Lagoon Island and the facility houses 18 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, and six...

  • Dunmore Town
    Dunmore Town
    Dunmore Town is a town in the Bahamas. It is located on Harbour Island, just East from North Eleuthera....


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  • Earl Hall
  • East Grand Bahama
    East Grand Bahama
    East Grand Bahama is a district of the Bahamas, situated on the eastern part of the island of Grand Bahama.The local government seat for the district is in the settlement of High Rock, a fairly small town. It is situated approximately 40 miles east of the City of Freeport, and 20 miles from the...

  • Economy of the Bahamas
    Economy of the Bahamas
    The Bahamas is a stable, developing nation with an economy heavily dependent on tourism and offshore banking. Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth in recent years, but the slowdown in the US economy and the...

  • Ed Smith
    Alex Smith (tight end)
    Edwin Alexander "Alex" Smith , is an American football tight end for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft...

    , first Bahamian to play in the NFL
  • Egg Island (Bahamas)
  • Eldece Clarke-Lewis
    Eldece Clarke-Lewis
    Eldece Clarke-Lewis is a Bahamian sprints athlete. She was a part of the Bahamian team that won the silver medal in the 1996 Olympics 4 x 100 metres relay.-External reference:*...

  • Elections in the Bahamas
    Elections in the Bahamas
    Elections in the Bahamas take place in the framework of a parliamentary democracy. Since independence voter turnout has been generally high in national elections, with a low of 87.9% in 1987 and a high of 98.5% in 1997.-Electoral system:...

  • Eleuthera
    Eleuthera
    Eleuthera is an island in The Bahamas, lying 50 miles east of Nassau. It is very long and thin—110 miles long and in places little more than a mile wide. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Eleuthera is approximately 8,000...

  • English colonization of the Americas
  • English language
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

  • Eric Gibson
    Eric Gibson
    "King" Eric Gibson is a Bahamian musician and entrepreneur. He is also the semiofficial Ambassador of Bahamian Goodwill.Gibson was born on the small island of Acklins to a musical family, although he didn't pursue music until his adulthood...

  • Exuma
    Exuma
    Exuma is a district of the Bahamas, consisting of over 360 islands . The largest of the cays is Great Exuma, which is 37 mi in length and joined to another island, Little Exuma by a small bridge. The capital and largest city in the district is George Town , founded 1793 and located on Great...

  • Exuma International Airport
    Exuma International Airport
    Exuma International Airport is a public airport serving the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas. It is located near Moss Town, northwest of George Town. The airport services mainly light aircraft and regional jets from the United States and The Bahamas....


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  • Flag of the Bahamas
    Flag of the Bahamas
    The flag of the Bahamas has an approximately 1:2 aspect ratio. The black equilateral triangle on the left represents the unity and determination of the people of the Bahamas. The triangle is oriented toward three equal-width stripes symbolizing areas of natural resource; two aquamarine stripes at...

  • Foreign relations of the Bahamas
    Foreign relations of the Bahamas
    The Bahamas has strong bilateral relationships with the United States and the United Kingdom, represented by an ambassador in Washington and High Commissioner in London. The Bahamas also associates closely with other nations of the Caribbean Community . The Bahamas has diplomatic relations with Cuba...

  • Frank Rutherford
    Frank Rutherford
    Frank Garfield Rutherford, Jr. MBE is a retired triple jumper from the Bahamas. He competed in three Olympic Games, and won a bronze medal in 1992, becoming the first Bahamian Track and Field Olympic medalist...

  • Free National Movement
    Free National Movement
    The Free National Movement is a socially liberal and economically conservative political party in The Bahamas. It is currently the ruling party, winning 23 of the 41 seats in the Bahamas House of Assembly on May 2, 2007; two of these seats are currently being contested in Electorial Court by the...

  • Freeport F.C.
    Freeport F.C.
    Freeport Rugby Football Club are one of the five men's teams in the Grand Bahama Football League, representing their home city of Freeport, Bahamas....

  • Freeport Jet Wash Jets
    Freeport Jet Wash Jets
    The Freeport Jet Wash Jets are one of the four women's GBFL franchises that play in Freeport, Bahamas. They share the same field with Freeport F.C....

  • Freeport, Bahamas
    Freeport, Bahamas
    Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone located on the island of Grand Bahama of the North-west Bahamas. In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted 50,000 acres Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone located on the island of...

  • Freetown, Bahamas
    Freetown, Bahamas
    Freetown is an area in the Bahamas located on the island of Eleuthera. This area is just east of the more populated town of Deep Creek. It is also 2 miles west of the settlement of Waterford. Freetown has no local government and thus would not be considered a settlement by Bahamas standards...

  • Fresh Creek
    Fresh Creek
    Fresh Creek was a district of the Bahamas before 1996.It consisted of the central portion of the island of Andros. The population was 2,576.New districts were created on Andros in 1996. Fresh Creek district was roughly replaced by Central Andros....


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  • Gary White (football)
    Gary White (football)
    Gary White is a UEFA 'A' Licensed professional soccer coach with FIFA international experience and is the current technical director for Washington Youth Soccer. In October 2011 he was hand selected as one of only sixteen coaches globally by The FA to attend their new prestigious Elite Coaching...

  • Geography of the Bahamas
    Geography of the Bahamas
    The Bahamas is a group of about 700 atolls and cays in the western Atlantic Ocean, of which only between 30 and 40 are inhabited. The largest of the islands is Andros Island, located southeast of Florida. The Bimini islands are to its northwest. To the North is the island of Grand Bahama, home to...

  • Grand Bahama Football League
    Grand Bahama Football League
    The Grand Bahama Football League is the highest form of association football on the Bahamian island of Grand Bahama. The league is divided into two divisions, the men's league and the woman's league. The men's league with 7 teams and the woman's league with 4 teams...

  • Grand Bahama International Airport
    Grand Bahama International Airport
    Grand Bahama International Airport is a privately owned international airport in Freeport, Bahamas. The airport is a joint venture between Hutchison Port Holdings and The Port Group...

  • Grand Bahama Stadium
    Grand Bahama Stadium
    Grand Bahama Stadium is a stadium in the city of Freeport in The Bahamas. The stadium, mostly used for football is the principal stadium on the island of Grand Bahama.Grand Bahama Stadium, in its normal configuration, has room for 3,100 spectators....

  • Grand Bahama
    Grand Bahama
    Grand Bahama is one of the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, and the closest major island to the United States, lying off the state of Florida. Grand Bahama is the fifth largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays...

  • Grand Cay
    Grand Cay
    Grand Cay is one of the districts of the Bahamas, in the Abaco islands.Grand Cay is the island just to the south of Walker's it is the first cay you come to with a settlement and where many of the Walkers workers lived. Its number only attraction is "Rosie's Place". Patrons can still sample the...

  • Great Guana Cay
    Great Guana Cay
    Great Guana Cay is an islet located in The Bahamas. It is a long but narrow islet which is 9 miles in length. It is located in the centre of the Abaco Islands...

  • Great Stirrup Cay
    Great Stirrup Cay
    Great Stirrup Cay is a small island that is part of the Berry Islands in the Bahamas. Norwegian Cruise Line purchased the island from Belcher Oil Company in 1977 and developed it into a private island for their cruise ship passengers....

  • Green Turtle Cay
    Green Turtle Cay
    Green Turtle Cay is an island in The Bahamas. It is located in the "Abaco Out Islands" and is long and 1/2 mile wide. It was named after the abundance of green turtles that inhabited the area. The population of the island is about 450 and its main settlement is New Plymouth which was founded in...

  • Guanahani
    Guanahani
    Guanahani was the name the natives gave to the island that Christopher Columbus called San Salvador when he arrived at the Americas. Columbus reached the island on 12 October 1492, the first island he sighted and visited in the Americas...


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  • Harbour Island
  • Heads of Government of the Bahamas
  • History of the Bahamas
    History of the Bahamas
    The history of the Bahamas begins with the earliest arrival of humans in the islands in the first millennium AD. The first inhabitants of the islands now known as The Bahamas were the Lucayans, an Arawakan-speaking Taino people, who arrived between about 500 and 800 from the islands of the Caribbean...

  • Hope Town
    Hope Town
    Hope Town features one of the last operational kerosene-fueled lighthouses in the world. This lighthouse was built in 1862 and became operational two years later, it is striped horizontally red and white. Its light can be seen from away....

  • Hubert Ingraham
    Hubert Ingraham
    Hubert Alexander Ingraham is the Prime Minister of the Bahamas. He first served as Prime Minister from August 1992 until May 2002 and became Prime Minister again in 2007. He is a member of the Free National Movement Party . The Rt. Hon. Hubert A...

  • Hurricane Andrew
    Hurricane Andrew
    Hurricane Andrew was the third Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States, after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969. Andrew was the first named storm and only major hurricane of the otherwise inactive 1992 Atlantic hurricane season...

  • Hurricane Betsy (1956)
    Hurricane Betsy (1956)
    Hurricane Betsy in 1956 was the first Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 24 years. The third tropical cyclone of the 1956 Atlantic hurricane season, Betsy developed from a tropical wave on August 9 to the east of the Lesser Antilles. It rapidly developed into a...

  • Hurricane Betsy
    Hurricane Betsy
    Hurricane Betsy was a Category 4 hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana. Betsy made its most intense landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing significant flooding of the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into...

  • Hurricane David
    Hurricane David
    Hurricane David was the fourth named tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 1979 Atlantic hurricane season. A Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, David was among the deadliest hurricanes in the latter half of the 20th century, killing...

  • Hurricane Gracie
    Hurricane Gracie
    Hurricane Gracie was a major hurricane that formed in September 1959, the strongest during the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season and the most intense to strike the United States since Hurricane Hazel in 1954...

  • Hurricane Hortense
    Hurricane Hortense
    Hurricane Hortense was the eighth tropical storm, sixth hurricane, and second Category 4 hurricane of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season. Lasting from September 3 to September 16, Hortense brought torrential flooding as it moved through the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic...

  • Hurricane Inez
    Hurricane Inez
    Hurricane Inez was a deadly, destructive, powerful and very long-lived Cape Verde-type hurricane that carved an erratic path through the Lesser Antilles, Hispaniola, Cuba, the Bahamas, Florida, and Mexico in 1966...

  • Hurricane Lili (1996)
    Hurricane Lili (1996)
    Hurricane Lili was a relatively long-lived hurricane during the very active 1996 Atlantic hurricane season. Lili formed on October 14 from a tropical wave, which emerged from the coast of west Africa on October 4. The tropical wave which developed into Lili was slow to form due to unfavorable wind...


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  • Inagua
    Inagua
    Inagua is the southernmost district of the Bahamas comprising the islands of Great Inagua and Little Inagua.Great Inagua is the third largest island in The Bahamas at 596 sq mi and lies about 55 miles from the eastern tip of Cuba. The island is about 55 x 19 miles in extent, the highest point...

  • International Organization for Standardization
    International Organization for Standardization
    The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial...

     (ISO)
    • ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
      ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
      ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

       country code for the Bahamas: BS
      The Bahamas
      The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

    • ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
      ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
      ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

       country code for the Bahamas: BHS
      The Bahamas
      The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

    • ISO 3166-2:BS
      ISO 3166-2:BS
      ISO 3166-2:BS is the entry for the Bahamas in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for the Bahamas, ISO 3166-2 codes...

       region codes for the Bahamas
  • Islands of the Bahamas
  • Ivy Dumont
    Ivy Dumont
    Dame Ivy Leona Dumont, DCMG was the sixth Governor-General of the Bahamas. She was a Bahamian hero.She was the first woman in the Bahamas to hold this office, from January 1, 2002 until November 30, 2005. She previously served as Education Minister from 1995 to 2001.-External links:*...


L

  • Lake Killarney
    Lake Killarney
    Lake Killarney is a subdivision surrounding a private lake located near the Fox River in unincorporated Cary, Illinois, Algonquin Township. It is located northwest of Chicago. Residents have lake rights to an spring fed lake. Fishing is productive...

  • Laverne Eve
    Laverne Eve
    Laverne Eve is a female track and field athlete from the Bahamas, who competes in the javelin throw. Her personal best throw is 63.73 metres, achieved in April 2000 in Nashville. In her early career she also competed in shot put and discus throw...

  • Leevan Sands
    Leevan Sands
    Leevan Sands is a Bahamian triple jumper. He was born in Nassau.His personal best jump is 17.59 metres, achieved in 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing...

  • LGBT rights in the Bahamas (Gay rights)
  • Lists related to the Bahamas:
  • Little San Salvador Island
    Little San Salvador Island
    Little San Salvador Island, Bahamas , is one of about 700 islands that make up the archipelago of the Bahamas. It is located roughly halfway between Eleuthera and Cat Island...

  • Little Stirrup Cay
    Little Stirrup Cay
    Little Stirrup Cay, Bahamas, is one of the Berry Islands, a collection of cays and small islands and is located approximately 55 miles north of Nassau. The island is less than a mile wide from east to west and less than a 200 yards from north to south...

  • Long Island, Bahamas
    Long Island, Bahamas
    Long Island is an island in the Bahamas that is split by the Tropic of Cancer. Its capital is Clarence Town. Long Island is one of the Districts of the Bahamas and is known as the most scenic island in the Bahamas. The population is roughly 4,000 inhabitants.-Geography:Long Island is about 130...

  • Lucayan Archipelago
    Lucayan archipelago
    The Lucayan Archipelago, as defined by Julian Granberry, consists of the islands of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and of the Turks and Caicos Islands...

  • Lyford Cay
    Lyford Cay
    Lyford Cay is a private gated community located on the western tip of New Providence Island, Bahamas. Considered one of the world's wealthiest and most exclusive neighborhoods, the Lyford Cay Club was built during the latter part of the 1950s by prominent Canadian businessman Edward Plunkett Taylor...

  • Lynden Pindling International Airport
    Lynden Pindling International Airport
    - Trivia :During World War II,it was known as Windsor Field used by the Royal Air Force Transferring Fighter and Bomber aircraft such as the B-17, B-24, and the P-40 from New Providence to Italian, North African and European Theatres of War and as a station for Consolidated Liberator I and North...


M

  • Mammals of the Bahamas
  • Mangrove Cay
    Mangrove Cay
    Mangrove Cay is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on Andros Island....

  • Man-O-War Cay
    Man-O-War Cay
    Man-O-War Cay is a small island in the Abaco region of the Bahamas.It has a population of about 300 Bahamian residents and about 135 foreign resident families. During the summer some local houses are rented by vacationing families that have a reputation as good house guests...

  • March On, Bahamaland
    March On, Bahamaland
    March On, Bahamaland is the national anthem of the Bahamas. It was composed by Timothy Gibson and adopted in 1973.-Lyrics:...

  • Mark Knowles
    Mark Knowles
    Mark Knowles is a former World number 1 doubles professional male tennis player from the Bahamas, who will go down as one of the greatest athletes of his country for his longevity within his sport and charitable contributions off the court.After being awarded a scholarship to the Nick...

  • Marsh Harbour
    Marsh Harbour
    Marsh Harbour is a town in Abaco Islands, Bahamas, with a population of 5,314.With more than five thousand residents, Marsh Harbour is the third largest town in The Bahamas, and the main focus of tourism in the Abacos. Marsh Harbour is a shipbuilding center, but tourism accounts for most of its...

  • Matthew Town
    Matthew Town
    Matthew Town is the chief and only settlement on Great Inagua Island of the Bahamas. It is located on the southwest corner of the island. It was named after Bahamian Governor George Matthew and first settled during his tenure in office...

  • Mayaguana
    Mayaguana
    Mayaguana is the most easterly island and district of the Bahamas. It is one of only a few Bahamian islands which retain their Lucayan names. The population of Mayaguana in the 2000 census was 259, amounting to an estimate 312 in 2010...

  • Military of the Bahamas
    Royal Bahamas Defence Force
    The Royal Bahamas Defence Force is the navy of The Bahamas. Since The Bahamas does not have an army or an air force, its navy composes the entirety of its armed forces...

  • Milo Butler
    Milo Butler
    Milo Butler, GCMG was a Bahamian administrator. He was appointed as the first Bahamian Governor-General on the recommendation of Lynden Pindling, prime minister of The Bahamas and leader of the Progressive Liberal Party , of which he was also a member...

  • Monarchy of the Bahamas
    Monarchy of the Bahamas
    The monarchy of the Bahamas is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since the country became independent on 10 July 1973. The Bahamas share the Sovereign...

  • Moore's Island
    Moore's Island
    Moore's Island is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the Abaco Islands.Moore's Island is one of the little cays off the main land of Abaco. It is approximately long and wide and approximately from Abaco...

  • Mouchoir Bank
    Mouchoir Bank
    Mouchoir Bank, in Spanish also called Banco de Pañuelo Blanco is located southeast of the Turks islands and is geographically a continuation of the Bahamas. It is part of the Turks and Caicos Islands and falls within its EEZ. Much of its north side is awash in two groupings of coral reef. A 1.8 m...

  • Mount Alvernia
    Mount Alvernia
    Mount Alvernia is located on Cat Island in the Bahamas and is the highest point in the country at above sea level. The Mountain shares its name with a school in Montego Bay, Jamaica....

  • Music of The Bahamas (docu-musical)
    Music of The Bahamas (docu-musical)
    Music of The Bahamas is a docu-musical adapted from E. Clement Bethel's master's thesis in ethnomusicology. Written by Nicolette Bethel and Philip A. Burrows. Directed by Philip A. Burrows....

  • Music of the Bahamas
    Music of the Bahamas
    The music of the Bahamas is associated primarily with junkanoo, a celebration which occurs on Boxing Day and again on New Year's Day. Parades and other celebrations mark the ceremony...

  • Mychal Thompson

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  • Nassau
    Nassau, Bahamas
    Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 248,948 , 70 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas...

     on New Providence
    New Providence
    New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It also houses the national capital city, Nassau.The island was originally under Spanish control following Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World, but the Spanish government showed...

     – Capital of the Bahamas
    • Template:Nassau TV
  • Nassau Hurricane of 1926
    Nassau Hurricane of 1926
    The Nassau Hurricane of 1926, also known as the Bahamas-Florida Hurricane of July 1926 and Hurricane San Liborio, was a destructive Category 4 hurricane that affected the Bahamas at peak intensity...

  • Nathaniel McKinney
    Nathaniel McKinney
    Nathaniel Benjamin McKinney is a Bahamian athlete competing mainly in the 4 x 400 m relay.At the 2004 Olympic Games McKinney's relay team finished sixth...

  • National Congress of Trade Unions
    National Congress of Trade Unions
    National Congress of Trade Unions is a central trade union federation in the Bahamas. It was founded by Dr. Leroy "Duke" Hanna on 10 November 1995....

  • New Providence
    New Providence
    New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It also houses the national capital city, Nassau.The island was originally under Spanish control following Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World, but the Spanish government showed...

  • New Providence Football League
    New Providence Football League
    The New Providence Football League is the highest form of football on the island of New Providence.There are also women's leagues in New Providence and Grand Bahama.After a season's gap, the WFL was formed in New Providence in 2006...

  • Nicholls Town
    Nicholls Town
    Nicholls Town is a town located in North Andros, part of Andros island in the Bahamas.-See also:* Districts of the Bahamas* Islands of the Bahamas* List of cities in the Bahamas...

  • Nichollstown and Berry Islands
    Nichollstown and Berry Islands
    Nichollstown and Berry Islands was a district of the Bahamas.It consisted of the northern portion of the island of Andros, a population of 3,444, together with the nearby Berry Islands ....

  • Norman's Cay
    Norman's Cay
    Norman's Cay is a small Bahamian island in the Exumas, a chain of islands south and east of Nassau, that served as the headquarters for Carlos Lehder's drug-smuggling operation from 1978 to around 1982.-Drug smuggling history:...

  • North Abaco
    North Abaco
    North Abaco is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the Abaco Islands.Some of the more known settlements within this district include:* Wood Cay* Crown Haven* Cedar Harbour* Coopers Town* Fire Road Village* Black Wood Village* New Plymouth...

  • North America
    North America
    North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

  • North Andros
    North Andros
    North Andros is one of the 31 Districts of The Bahamas. It is also the largest district in the country. It has some of the largest settlements on Andros Island and many churches as well.- Churches :...

  • North Atlantic Ocean
  • North Eleuthera
    North Eleuthera
    North Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera.Sweetings Pond in North Central Eleuthera is recognized as a site of special ecological value, containing, it is estimated, a concentration of Ophiothrix oerstedi brittlestars at up to 434 individuals per square...

  • North Temperate Zone and Tropics
    Tropics
    The tropics is a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator. It is limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere at approximately  N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at  S; these latitudes correspond to the axial tilt of the Earth...

  • Northern America
    Northern America
    Northern America is the northernmost region of the Americas, and is part of the North American continent. It lies directly north of the region of Middle America; the land border between the two regions coincides with the border between the United States and Mexico...

  • Northern Hemisphere
    Northern Hemisphere
    The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator—the word hemisphere literally means “half sphere”. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...


P

  • Paradise Island
    Paradise Island
    Paradise Island is an island in the Bahamas formerly known as Hog Island. The island is located just off the shore of the city of Nassau, which is itself located on the northern edge of the island of New Providence. It is best known for the sprawling 'Vegas-by-the-sea resort' Atlantis.Paradise...

  • Parliament of the Bahamas
    Parliament of the Bahamas
    The Parliament of The Bahamas is the bicameral national parliament of Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The parliament is formally made up by the Queen , an appointed Senate, and an elected House of Assembly...

  • Pauline Davis-Thompson
  • People on stamps of the Bahamas
  • Perry Christie
    Perry Christie
    Perry Gladstone Christie is a Bahamian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 2002 to 2007...

  • Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling
    Lynden Pindling
    Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling KCMG, OM, JP , is generally regarded as the "Father of the Nation" of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and then to independence on 10 July 1973. He served as the first black premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and as...

  • Plana Cays
    Plana Cays
    The Plana Cays are a group of two small islands in the southern Bahama Islands located east of Acklins Island and west of Mayaguana Island. The islands are today uninhabited....

  • Playtime Tigers
    Playtime Tigers
    The Playtime Tiger Football Club are one of the five teams in the Grand Bahama Football League. During the regular season they came 5th place....

  • Politics of the Bahamas
    Politics of the Bahamas
    The politics of the Bahamas takes place within a framework of parliamentary democracy, with a Prime Minister as the head of government. The Bahamas is an independent country and - as a former British colony - a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Political and legal traditions closely follow...

  • Postage stamps and postal history of the Bahamas
    Postage stamps and postal history of the Bahamas
    The postal history of the Bahamas begins in the 18th century, with the earliest known letters dating from the 1760s. In 1804 a straight-line "BAHAMAS" handstamp came into use...

  • Progressive Liberal Party
    Progressive Liberal Party
    The Progressive Liberal Party is a populist party in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas commonly abbreviated PLP. The PLP lies on the left of the political spectrum....


R

  • Ragged Island
  • Rick Fox
    Rick Fox
    Ulrich Alexander "Rick" Fox is a Canadian television actor and retired professional basketball player who last played for the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers in 2004.-Early life:...

  • Ripsaw music
    Ripsaw music
    Ripsaw is a musical genre which originated in the Turks and Caicos Islands, specifically in the Middle and North Caicos. A very closely related variant, rake-and-scrape, is played in the Bahamas...

  • Rivers of the Bahamas
  • Robert Sweeting
    Robert Sweeting
    Robert Percival Sweeting OBE is a Bahamian politician, and was an MP in the Bahamas Parliament, representing the South Abaco Constituency, from 2002 until 2007...

  • Roger Smith (tennis player)
    Roger Smith (tennis player)
    Roger Smith is a former tennis player from the BahamasSmith turned professional in 1987. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on August 1, 1988, when he became World Number 96....

  • Roland Theodore Symonette
    Roland Theodore Symonette
    Sir Roland Theodore Symonette achieved high office as a Bahamian political figure.Roland "Pop" Symonette was born on the small island settlement of Current, Eleuthera...

  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The diocese encompasses the islands of the former British dependency of the Bahamas...

  • Rum Cay
    Rum Cay
    Rum Cay is an island and district of the Bahamas. Lat.: N23 42' 30" - Long.: W 74 50' 00" - Size: 30 Sq. mlsRum Cay is 20 miles southwest of San Salvador Island, has many rolling hills that rises to about 120 feet . Christopher Columbus called it Santa Maria de la Concepción. The island is...


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  • Samana Cay
    Samana Cay
    Samana Cay is the largest now uninhabited island in the Bahamas, believed by some researchers to have been the location of Columbus's first landfall in the Americas, on October 12, 1492....

  • San Salvador Airport
    San Salvador Airport
    San Salvador Airport , also known as Cockburn Town Airport, is an airport in San Salvador, Bahamas.San Salvador International Airport is one of the few airports in the Bahamas that has Instrument rating landing for airplanes, and as a result aircraft can now land at ZSA after official sunset...

  • San Salvador and Rum Cay
    San Salvador and Rum Cay
    San Salvador and Rum Cay is a former district of the Bahamas.The Main settlement in Rum Cay is Port Nelson.In 1996 it was divided into separate districts of San Salvador and Rum Cay....

  • San Salvador Island
    San Salvador Island
    San Salvador Island, also known as Watlings Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas. Until 1986, when the National Geographic Society suggested Samana Cay, it was widely believed that during his first expedition to the New World, San Salvador Island was the first land sighted and visited...

  • Sandy Point, Bahamas
    Sandy Point, Bahamas
    Sandy Point is a town in the Bahamas located in the South Abaco District. It is the last settlement in the southern end of the chain. Sandy Point was named because of the amount of sand on its beaches. It is south of the famous Disney castaway island ....

  • Savatheda Fynes
  • The Scout Association of the Bahamas
    The Scout Association of the Bahamas
    The Scout Association of the Bahamas, the national Scouting organization of the Bahamas, was brought to the Bahamas by the British and was officially founded in 1913, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1974...

  • Scouting in the Bahamas
    Scouting in the Bahamas
    The Scout and Guide movement in the Bahamas is served by* The Bahamas Girl Guides Association, member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts* The Scout Association of the Bahamas, member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement...

  • Sebastian Bach
    Sebastian Bach
    Sebastian Bach is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987 to 1996. Since his departure from Skid Row, he has had many television roles, acted within Broadway plays, and leads a successful solo career.-Early life:Bach was born Sebastian...

  • Sidney Poitier
    Sidney Poitier
    Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field...

  • Snug Corner
    Snug Corner
    Snug Corner is a town in the Bahamas. It is located on Acklins island....

  • South Abaco
    South Abaco
    South Abaco is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the Abaco Islands.-References:...

  • South Andros
    South Andros
    South Andros is a district of the nation of The Bahamas. Geographically, South Andros is the southernmost third of the land mass colloquially called Andros, which includes the districts of North Andros, Central Andros and South Andros...

  • South Eleuthera
    South Eleuthera
    South Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera....

  • Southern Air Charter
    Southern Air Charter
    Southern Air Charter is an airline and air charter company, operating in the Bahamas. They mainly fly air charters, but the airline does offer some scheduled intra-island services between destinations in the Bahamas.- Fleet :...

  • Spanish Wells
    Spanish Wells
    Spanish Wells is one of the districts of the Bahamas.Spanish Wells is a small island located approximately one mile off the northern tip of Eleuthera island. It has a population of approximately 1,500 residents. It is so small that many residents get around the island using golf carts instead of...

  • Stafford Sands
    Stafford Sands
    Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands was a former finance minister of the Bahamas. He helped create the Bahamas' tourism industry....


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  • Television stations in the Bahamas by call sign
  • The Bahamas
    The Bahamas
    The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

  • The Bluff, Bahamas
    The Bluff, Bahamas
    The Bluff is a settlement on North Eleuthera, Bahamas.There are three settlements in the Bahamas called "The Bluff". The first is on South Andros Island. It is the most densely populated settlement on the island. It hosts a Homecoming every year, the first weekend in June on its Regatta site...

  • Thomas Robinson Stadium
    Thomas Robinson Stadium
    Thomas Robinson Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Nassau, Bahamas. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium currently has a capacity of 9,100 people, but is currently being rebuilt to hold 23,000 people....

  • Tongue of the Ocean
    Tongue of the Ocean
    The Tongue of the Ocean is the name of a deep oceanic trench in the Bahamas separating the islands of Andros and New Providence. The depth of the water drops from roughly along Andros' east offshore barrier reef to over , and the drop is roughly long....

  • Tonique Williams-Darling
    Tonique Williams-Darling
    Tonique Williams-Darling is a Bahamian sprint athlete. She won the gold medal in the 400 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-College:...

  • Topic outline of the Bahamas
  • Town & Country Predators
    Town & Country Predators
    The Town and Country Predators are a Grand Bahama Football League club currently placed in Lucaya, Bahamas....

  • Transport in the Bahamas
    Transport in the Bahamas
    -Highways:Approximately of road in the Bahamas is classified as highway. Of these, approximately are paved. As a former British colony, drivers drive on the left.-Ports and harbours:...

  • Trevor Harvey
    Trevor Harvey
    Trevor Livingston Harvey is a professional basketball player. He is 2.11 meters tall and 109 kilograms weight. Has good anticipation for blocked shots without fouling...

  • Tropic of Cancer
    Tropic of Cancer
    The Tropic of Cancer, also referred to as the Northern tropic, is the circle of latitude on the Earth that marks the most northerly position at which the Sun may appear directly overhead at its zenith...

  • Tropics
    Tropics
    The tropics is a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator. It is limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere at approximately  N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at  S; these latitudes correspond to the axial tilt of the Earth...

     and North Temperate Zone
  • Troy Kemp
    Troy Kemp
    Troy Kemp is a former high jumper from Bahamas who won the gold medal at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. Having jumped 2.38m in Nice 1995, Kemp is a co-holder of the Commonwealth record.-Achievements:-External...

  • Troy McIntosh
    Troy McIntosh
    Troy McIntosh is a male sprinter from The Bahamas.-Achievements:-External links:...


W

  • West Grand Bahama
    West Grand Bahama
    West Grand Bahama is one of 31 districts of The Bahamas. The district covers the entire western portion of Grand Bahama island, excluding the city of Freeport, which forms its own district...

  • West Indies
  • Western Air
    Western Air
    Western Air Limited is an airline with its headquarters on the grounds of San Andros Airport in Andros Island, Bahamas. It was established in 2001 by Rex and Shandrice Rolle, currently the firm's president and CEO and vice president and COO, respectively....

  • Western Hemisphere
    Western Hemisphere
    The Western Hemisphere or western hemisphere is mainly used as a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian and east of the Antimeridian , the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere.In this sense, the western hemisphere consists of the western portions...

  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of the Bahamas
  • Windermere Island
    Windermere Island
    Windermere Island is a small island located in The Bahamas. It is about five and a half miles long, and is noted for its beaches and its celebrity visitors, who use it as a private retreat. The island is connected to the larger island of Eleuthera by a short bridge, which is protected by a...


See also

  • Commonwealth of Nations
    Commonwealth of Nations
    The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...

  • List of international rankings
  • Lists of country-related topics
  • Topic outline of geography
  • Topic outline of North America
  • Topic outline of the Bahamas
  • United Nations
    United Nations
    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...


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