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Savannah Sound
Savannah Sound is a settlement in Central Eleuthera Central Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera Eleuthera () refers both to a single island in the archipelagic state of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas and to its associated group of smaller islands. Eleu ..., the Bahamas. At the 2010 census, the population was 204. The settlement has had a chapel since 1809. Windermere High School is located in Savannah Sound. References Populated places in the Bahamas {{Bahamas-geo-stub ...
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Islands Of The Bahamas
The following is an alphabetical list of the islands and cays of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. A * Abaco Island * Abner Cay * Abraham's Bay * Acklins Island * Adderley Cay * Alcorine Cay *Alder Cay * Allan Cays * Allans Cay * Ambergris Cay(s) *Andrew island *Andros Island - largest island of the Bahamas * Angel Cays *Angle and Fish Cay * Anna Cay * Arawak Cay * Araway Cay *Archers Cay *Athol Island * Atwood Cay * August Cay B * Back Cay * Bahama Cay * Bahama Island * Bamboo Cay * Barraterre Island * Barn Cay * Barracuda Island * Base Line Cay *Beach Cay *Beacon Cay *Beak Cay * Bell Cay (owned by the Aga Khan IV) *Ben Cay * Berry Islands *Big Bersus Cay * Big Carters Cay * Big Cave Cay * Big Cay *Big Crab Cay * Big Cross Cay *Big Darby Island, a private island in the Exumas *Big Egg Island *Big Farmer's Cay *Big Fish Cay *Big Grand Cay *Big Harbour Cay *Big Hog Cay *Big Jerry Cay *Big Joe Downer Cay *Big Lake Cay *Big Lloyd Cay * Big Major Cay * Big Pigeon Cay *Big Romers ...
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Grand Bahama
Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, with the town of West End located east of Palm Beach, Florida. It is the third largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays. The island is roughly in area and approximately long west to east and at its widest point north to south. Administratively, the island consists of the Freeport Bonded Area and the districts of East Grand Bahama and West Grand Bahama. Nearly half of the homes on the island were damaged or destroyed in early September 2019 by Hurricane Dorian. Climate Grand Bahama Island has a tropical monsoon climate, with a hot and wet season from May through October, and warm and dry season from November through April. In Freeport the summer high temperatures average , with average lows of . During the winter, the average high temperature is , and the average low is . The rainy season in the Bahamas is from May to October. The hurricane season runs from June th ...
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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 authorities. The second and third schedules together make up the first schedule. Local government policy is formulated and administered by the Department of Lands and Local Government through the Office of the Prime Minister. The day-to-day policy handling of the portfolio falls to the Minister of Local Government who also is empowered to create new local government areas from time to time based on demographics. The administrative and financial management is overseen by the ministry's permanent secretary. History Local government previously existed in the Bahamas in the form of appointed "Board of Works". Here towns and villages held their influence over these Board of Works, but almo ...
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South Eleuthera
South Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera. The district had a population of 4,955 in 2010.SOUTH ELEUTHERA POPULATION BY SETTLEMENT AND TOTAL NUMBER OF OCCUPIED DWELLINGS: 2010 CENSUS
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a small portion of westernmost Brazil in South America, along with certain Caribbean and Atlantic islands. Places that use: * Eastern Standard Time (EST), when observing standard time (autumn/winter), are five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−05:00). * Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), when observing daylight saving time (spring/summer), are four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−04:00). On the second Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3:00 a.m. EDT leaving a one-hour "gap". On the first Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1:00 a.m. EST, thus "duplicating" one hour. Southern parts of the zone (Panama and the Caribbean) do not observe daylight saving ...
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Central Eleuthera
Central Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera Eleuthera () refers both to a single island in the archipelagic state of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas and to its associated group of smaller islands. Eleuthera forms a part of the Great Bahama Bank. The island of Eleuthera incorporates the .... Districts of the Bahamas Eleuthera {{Bahamas-geo-stub ...
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The Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing of ocean space. The Bahama Islands were inhabited by the Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan- speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the "New World" in 1492 when he ...
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