Elbow Cay is an eight-mile-long (13-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-striped one-hundred-and …

The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas.The main islands are Great Abaco and Little Abaco. There are several smaller barrier cays, of which the northernmost are Walker's Cay and its sister island Grand Cay.To the south, the next inhabited islands are Spanish Cay and Green Turtle Cay, with its settlement of New Plymouth, Great Guana Cay, private Scotland Cay, Man …

Cay Sal Bank (Spanish: Placer de los Roques) is the third largest (after Great Bahama Bank and Little Bahama Bank) and the westernmost of the Bahama Banks.It is located between 23º27'N - 24º10'N and 079º25'W – 080º35'W. In a geographical sense, it is separate from the Bahamas proper as it is much closer to Cuba (from which it is separated by Nicholas Channel, at a …

Etymology. The 1492 indigenous people of the Bahamas were called "Lucayan", an Anglicization of the Spanish Lucayos, derived in turn from the Taíno Lukku-Cairi (which the people used for themselves), meaning "people of the islands". The Taíno word for "island", cairi, became cayo in Spanish and "cay" / ˈ k iː / in English (spelled "key" in American English, "caye" in Belizean …

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is located in the Lucayan Archipelago, the portion of the Caribbean region in the North Atlantic Ocean rather than in or bordering the Caribbean Sea.There are 700 islands and 2,400 cays in The Bahamas.There are 30 inhabited islands. Andros Island is the largest island in the Bahamas. Large island groups include Berry Islands and Exuma.

The Bahamas are a group of about 700 islands 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 north of Cuba and 200 kilometres (120 miles) southeast of Florida.The Bimini islands are to its northwest. To the North is the island of Grand Bahama, home to the second-largest city in the country, …

Curly Cut Cays; Current Island; E. East Cay; Egg Island; Elbow Cay; Elbow Cays (Cay Sal Bank) Eleuthera Island; Elizabeth Island; Exuma Island; F. Factory Cays; Falcon Cays; Fanny Cay; Fernandez Cay; Fiddle Cay; Fifteen Feet Cay; Finley Cay; Fish Cay(s) Fish Hawk Cay; Fishing Cays; Flamingo Cay; Flat Cays; Foots Cay; Fortune Island; Fowl Cay ...

The Chesterfield Islands (îles Chesterfield in French) are a French archipelago of New Caledonia located in the Coral Sea, 550 km (300 nmi) northwest of Grande Terre, the main island of New Caledonia.The archipelago is 120 km long and 70 km broad, made up of 11 uninhabited islets and many reefs. The land area of the islands is less than 10 km 2. [citation needed]

Deadman Cays; Double Headed Shot Cays; Elbow Cays; Factory Cays; Inagua Islands; Plana Cays; Schooner Cays; Water Cays; Victory Cays. Turks and Caicos. Six Hill Cays; Windward Islands. Brooks Rocks; Cow And Calves Islands; Grenadines; Caspian Sea. Archipelagos of the Caspian Sea: Baku Archipelago;

The first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on March 4, 1933, when he was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States, and the second term of his presidency ended on January 20, 1941, with his inauguration to a third term.Roosevelt, the Democratic governor of the largest state, New York, took office after defeating incumbent President Herbert …