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Encompassing more than 365 islands, cays and rock outcroppings, THE EXUMAS stretch over one hundred miles along the eastern edge of the Great Bahama Bank. Bound on one side by the bank's shallow, clear waters, and on the other by the deep waves of Exuma Sound, the island chain is predominantly oriented toward fishing and farming, though the tourist trade continues to make slow but steady progress. Not surprisingly, the most compelling reasons to visit the Exumas are to sail, snorkel, dive or kayak , as the surrounding waters are lush with undersea gardens and iridescent coral reefs, and abundant with multicoloured sea life.

A bit less stunning than the luminous turquoise sea around them, the Exumas are mainly low-lying chunks of honeycombed limestone , rimmed by bright, powdery sand and covered with dense vegetation. While the outlying reefs and bars glow with swirling blue and white tones, the cays themselves are a dun-coloured landscape marked by pristine expanses of soft white beaches, towering silhouettes of coconut palms and dunes covered with tangled vines and exotic blooms.

The largest islands in the Exuma chain are Great Exuma and Little Exuma at the southern end, which have been settled and farmed for two hundred years, giving them an

authentic pastoral character. North of Great Exuma, there are a few small fishing settlements on sleepy Little Farmer's Cay , on Great Guana Cay at Blackpoint , and on inviting Staniel Cay , which famously hosts a New Year's Day regatta with three days of festivities. North of Staniel Cay, a lengthy array of mostly uninhabited cays extends thirty miles, with the highlight being the Exuma Land and Sea Park , a protected sanctuary of extraordinary beauty.

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  Three hundred yards across the Paradise Island Bridge from Nassau's harbour, PARADISE ISLAND consists of 686 acres of hard-pack coral and wind-blown limestone oolite sand, and until the mid-1960s was Nassau's boat-building centre and supported a population of wild hogs and domesticated pigs. - Bahamas
  

• Eleuthera Bahamas Travel Videos
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  Derived from an ancient Greek word for "freedom", the name ELEUTHERA was given to the island by a small band of European settlers who landed on its beaches in 1648, fleeing religious persecution in Bermuda. - Bahamas
  

• Long Island Bahamas Travel Videos
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  Virtually untouched by tourism, the 3200 residents of LONG ISLAND live in a dozen or so small fishing settlements along a seventy-mile strip, a narrow sliver of land rarely more than two miles wide, separating Grand Bahama Bank from the Atlantic Ocean. - Bahamas
  

• Alice Town Bahamas Travel Videos
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• Exumas Bahamas Travel Videos
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  Encompassing more than 365 islands, cays and rock outcroppings, THE EXUMAS stretch over one hundred miles along the eastern edge of the Great Bahama Bank. - Bahamas
  

• New Providence Bahamas Travel Videos
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• Cat Island and San Salvador Bahamas Travel Videos
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  A world away from the up-tempo lifestyle and commercialism of a place like Nassau, CAT ISLAND and SAN SALVADOR offer an isolated example of Bahamian life before the advent of modern tourism. - Bahamas
  

• Grand Bahama Bahamas Travel Videos
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  Fifty-five miles east of Miami, GRAND BAHAMA looks from the air to be a flat, dry slab of bleached limestone bristling with tall, thin pine trees and edged by a ribbon of powdery white sand and multihued bands of blue-green water. - Bahamas
  

• Andros Bahamas Travel Videos
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  Bahamians call ANDROS their "Big Back Yard", an appropriate description considering the thick bush that dominates the island, which in the north consists mainly of tropical and deciduous trees like Andros pine and lignum vitae - the latter virtually the national tree of the Bahamas - and in the south, a mix of mangroves, mud flats and tidal swamps. - Bahamas
  

• Abacos and Loyalist Cays Bahamas Travel Videos
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  The northernmost of the Bahamian islands, THE ABACOS are sometimes called the "isles of the old-time Loyalists" because of their association with Tory expatriates fleeing the American Revolution. - Bahamas