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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. Accessible by daily ferry service and direct flights from several major American cities, the island is ninety-six miles long and seventeen miles wide, and has a range of appealing features: gorgeous white beaches , aquamarine seas , and an exotic profusion of lush coral reefs and undersea gardens . The island's interior landscape is as stark and rugged as its coastline is colourful and brilliant, with seemingly barren forests revealed up close to be teeming with life - home to numerous species of birds, lizards, plants and trees. Although the sun-dappled stands of pine, with an understorey of emerald-green thatch palm, are accessible on old logging roads that may be explored on foot or mountain bike, the rest of the interior is a vast monotony of unkempt bush and swamp that is decidedly less picturesque.

Despite the natural surroundings, most of the half-million annual visitors to Grand Bahama rarely stray far from the urban conglomeration of Freeport - located three miles inland from the south coast - and its seaside suburb Lucaya , which together are home to most of the island's 47,000 residents. Not surprisingly, the local economy is geared almost entirely to the tourist trade . Here, you can golf, gamble or

just relax poolside at any number of all-inclusive resorts.

Outside the city, between Pelican Point and Sweeting's Cay, there are seven oceanic blue holes to entice divers and snorkellers. East of Freeport, the Lucayan National Park encompasses walking trails, limestone caves and mangrove creeks that can be explored by kayak. West of Freeport, Deadman's Reef offers lush snorkelling opportunities accessible from the powdery white beach at Paradise Cove .

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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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• New Providence Bahamas Travel Videos
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  NEW PROVIDENCE and PARADISE ISLAND are the undeniable heart of the Bahamian archipelago. - Bahamas
  

• Alice Town Bahamas Travel Videos
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  Just fifty miles east of Miami, Florida, is the world-famous fishing destination Alice Town on North Bimini. - 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• Paradise Island Bahamas Travel Videos
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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
  

• 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