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Rose Island is a small
island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...
in the
Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. ...
that lies east of
Paradise Island Paradise Island is an island in the Bahamas formerly known as Hog Island. The island, with an area of (2.8 km2/1.1 sq mi), is just off the shore of the city of Nassau, which is itself on the northern edge of the island of New Providence ...
, which lies directly off of
New Providence New Providence is the most populous island in The Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. On the eastern side of the island is the national capital, national capital city of Nassau, Bahamas, Nassau; it had a population of 246 ...
Island. The island has no formal residential infrastructure and no roads. The center was owned by Claude Turner for around 36 years up until 2005. The largest mass of the island is made up of a shallow inland lagoon in the center of the island. The highest elevation on the island is . The island has a thin peninsula which juts out east. The island was home to a pineapple plantation centuries ago. In February 1962, the actress, Jayne Mansfield, her husband, Mickey Hargitay, and Jack Drury, a hotel press agent, were rescued from Rose Island after spending the night on a small coral reef nearby. The trio had been marooned after a boating mishap the prior day. The island's coast was the filming location for the crash-landing of a Vulcan Bomber in the 1965
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film '' Thunderball''.


References

2. Miller, G (1962, February 9). Jayne in Nassau Hospital; a Case of 'Double Exposure.' The Miami Herald, Page A1, A2 Islands of the Bahamas {{Bahamas-geo-stub