The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands lie to the north.

The Turks and Caicos Islands lie southeast of Mayaguana in the Bahamas island chain and north of the island of Hispaniola.

The two island groups are in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Bahamas, north of Hispaniola, and about from Miami in the United States, at.

Population density at the time of first European contact was highest in the south central area of the Bahamas, declining towards the north, reflecting the progressively shorter time of occupation of the northern islands.

S. mahagoni grows on the West Indian islands as far north as the Bahamas, the Florida Keys and parts of Florida ; S. humilis grows in the dry regions of the Pacific coast of Central America from south-western Mexico to Costa Rica ; S. macrophylla grows in Central America from Yucatan southwards and into South America, extending as far as Peru, Bolivia and extreme western Brazil.

Cuba is located west of Haiti across the Windward Passage, south of the Bahamas, south of Florida, east of Mexico, and north of Jamaica.

It is bordered on the north by the Straits of Florida, on the northeast by Nicholas Channel and the Old Bahamas Channel.

During this deposition period, the county had a climate similar to that of the present-day Bahamas, as the equator was north of Washington County.

Population density at the time of first European contact was highest in the south central area of the Bahamas, declining towards the north, reflecting the progressively shorter time of occupation of the northern islands.

It is associated with rocky or coral reefs but is not dependent on them ; it is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts, USA, in the north to southern Brazil, but is particularly associated with the southern Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

The Nassau Grouper lives in the western Atlantic Ocean, from Bermuda, Florida and the Bahamas in the north to southern Brazil, but it is only found in a few places in the Gulf of Mexico, most notably along the coast of Belize.

He owns hundreds of racehorses, valuable stud farms, an exclusive yacht club on Sardinia, a private island in the Bahamas, two Bombardier jets, a 12-seat helicopter, a £ 100 million high speed yacht named after his prize racehorse, and several estates around the world, including an estate called Aiglemont in the town of Gouvieux, France – just north of Paris.

Subsequently he was governor of the Bahamas until 1857, when he returned north to become governor of Newfoundland, the second governor since responsible government had been granted.

Hemingway was attracted to Bimini by tales of the incredible fishing available in the Gulf Stream, the legendary “ river ” of warm water that rushes north past the Bahamas.

Betsy travelled just north of Nassau, the biggest city in the Bahamas, where it stalled for about three hours, allowing its winds to pound the city.

Slightly further north, and the storm will track through the Bahamas and into Florida in the manner of 1992's Hurricane Andrew.

Conditions were favorable for additional development, and Ione peaked with winds of on September 18 while north of the Bahamas.

Nevertheless, Guanahani is drawn in Bahamas in a form that appears to show a group of islets rather than a single island, lying due north of the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti.

The final tropical cyclone of the season formed on October 15 just north of the Bahamas.

It weakened as it accelerated northeastward through the Bahamas, and on June 17 the system dissipated to the north of Bermuda.

Peak intensity came sometime during the day on September 7 while north of the Bahamas.

Maps from September 15 display a weak low north of The Bahamas ; however, other observations place the new cyclone further south.

Moving around the western periphery of the subtropical ridge, Bertha passed north of the Bahamas as a weakening hurricane before turning towards the north-northeast and undergoing another period of rapid intensification.

The storm began to rapidly intensified and reached its peak intensity of 120 mph ( 195 km / h ) north of the Bahamas before weakening to Category 1 status before landfall in Massachusetts on September 11.

The more familiar triangular boundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Miami ; San Juan, Puerto Rico ; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

During the first voyage of the explorer Christopher Columbus ( mandated by the Spanish crown to conquer ) contact was made with the Lucayans in the Bahamas and the Taíno in Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola, and a few of the native people were taken back to Spain.

The Arawak people include the Taíno, who occupied the Lesser Antilles and Guadeloupe ( called " Karukera " meaning " The island of beautiful waters ") before being largely killed off by the Caribs in the 18th century ; the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas ( Lucayans ); the Nepoya and Suppoya of Trinidad ; the Lokono of Guyana, and the Igneri, who were supposed to have preceded the Caribs in the Lesser Antilles-such as in, together with related groups ( including the Lucayans ) which lived along the eastern coast of South America, as far south as what is now Brazil.

* The Andros, Bahamas Barrier Reef — third largest, following the east coast of Andros Island, Bahamas, between Andros and Nassau

Its range includes the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, most of the Caribbean, and practically all of the Brazilian coast, where they are known as mero.

On August 13, the wave passed near or over the southern coast of Jamaica as its convection spread northeastward through the Bahamas.

Ilex cassine is a holly native to the southeastern coast of North America, in the United States from Virginia to southeast Texas, in Mexico in Veracruz, and in the Caribbean on the Bahamas, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.

* West coast of Andros Island, Bahamas

) on the east coast of Great Abaco in the Bahamas.

With the fire in 1965 near the Bahamas, stricter coast guard safety regulations in the form of the new international SOLAS program put and end to the three ship's long careers.

Toward noon, tropical storm warnings were issued for the remainder of the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, a hurricane watch was issued for the central Bahamas, while all watches and warnings were dropped for northeast portion of the Dominican Republic and portions of the Lesser Antilles south of the British Virgin Islands.

On the evening of September 1, hurricane warnings were issued for the northwest Bahamas while hurricane watches were issued for the lower east coast of Florida and tropical storm watches were issued for the Florida Keys.

That afternoon, hurricane watches were dropped for most of the northwest Bahamas while warnings were extended up the coast to St. Marks, Florida, and watches were extended westward to Panama City, Florida.

Later that morning, hurricane warnings were issued for most of the northwest Florida coast while hurricane watches were lowered for northeast Florida and hurricane warnings were dropped for the remainder of the northwest Bahamas.

With an unusually strong high pressure area located over The Bahamas, the tropical depression moved westward through the southern Caribbean Sea near the northern coast of South America.

Born in Armenia, Colombia, Lehder eventually ran a cocaine transport empire on Norman's Cay island, off the Florida coast in the central Bahamas.

Conocarpus erectus, one of two species in the genus Conocarpus, is a mangrove shrub and tree in the family Combretaceae growing on shorelines in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including Florida, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Central and South America from Mexico to Brazil on the Atlantic coast and Mexico to Ecuador on the Pacific coast, western Africa and in Melanesia and Polynesia.

Another east coast storm, this one formed in the southern Bahamas in early August as the first storm was dissipating.

McCoy then began to smuggle whisky into the U. S., traveling from Nassau and Bimini in the Bahamas to the east coast of the United States, spending most time dealing on " Rum row " off Long Island.