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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. Running along the spine of the island, the central road connecting its villages - The Queen's Highway - only became passable when it was resurfaced in 1991, the same year electricity and telephones arrived.

A varied landscape of steep rocky cliffs, sheltered coves filled with turquoise water, idyllic green pastures with grazing goats, and historic churches in quaint seaside villages, Long Beach offers eye-catching sightseeing, whether by car or bicycle. Along with its unspoiled rustic beauty, the island's key attractions are its excellent diving and snorkelling , superb fishing throughout the year, and many pristine beaches . These include the striking white sands that stretch for three miles along Cape Santa Maria at the north end of the island; Guana Cay with its terrific snorkelling, further south; and secluded Lowes Beach on the Atlantic side near the southern end.

Although most locals continue to make their living from fishing, the small burg of Mangrove Bush , at the southern end of the island, is home to a number of artisans constructing wooden boats - a longstanding tradition in the area. The Long Island Sailing Regatta , held in Salt Pond in mid-May for the past 35 years, is one of the main social

events in the Out Islands.

Further along, two essential sights not to be missed include Hamilton's Cave , near the village of Cartwrights , a collection of underground chambers filled with colourful stalactites, stalagmites and pictographs, and the Columbus Monument , atop a rocky bluff at the northern tip of the island, offering a stunning panorama of the craggy terrain and white-sand fringes that Columbus first surveyed on his two-week Bahamian tour in 1492.

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

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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