Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions.

From the initial colonization ( s ) the Lucayans expanded throughout the Bahamas Islands in some 800 years ( c. 700 – c. 1500 ), growing to a population of about 40, 000.

In 1703 and in 1706 combined French-Spanish fleets attacked and sacked Nassau, after which some settlers left and the Proprietors gave up on trying to govern the Bahamas.

In addition to Jamaica and Bahamas, all the British controlled islands exported some mahogany at various times, but the quantities were not large.

Five species of barn-owl are threatened, and some island species have gone extinct during the Holocene or earlier ( e. g. Tyto pollens, known from the fossil record of Andros Island in the Bahamas, and possibly the basis for the Chickcharnie ).

Beach Naupaka ( Scaevola taccada synonym S. sericea ) occurs throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans and is considered an invasive species in Florida, USA, and in some islands of the Caribbean including the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas.

Some crania and artefacts of " Ciboney type " were reportedly found on Andros Island, but if some Ciboney did reach the Bahamas ahead of the Lucayans, they left no known evidence of occupation.

From an initial colonization of Great Inagua Island, the Lucayans expanded throughout the Bahamas Islands in some 800 years ( c. 700 – c. 1500 ), growing to a population of about 40, 000.

He was the second child of Joseph Perry, a cigar maker from Jamaica ( although some sources indicate the Bahamas ) and Dora Monroe, a seamstress from Nassau.

Many of these Turks and Caicos Islanders became some of the most famous musicians in the Bahamas.

Some Atlantic Spotted Dolphins, particularly some of those are around The Bahamas have become habituated to human contact.

In the Bahamas on vacation, Tom and Glenn Humplik head to a zoo to disturb some flamingoes.

" chant cheerleader sequence at Pasadena Rose Bowl, Pasadena ; the factory sequence at the Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant, Playa Del Rey ; the war sequence at Bronson Canyon ; some sequences at San Francisco ; the desert sequence at Palm Springs ), Utah ( the concert sequence at Valley Music Hall, Salt Lake City ) and The Bahamas ( Micky's underwater sequence ) between February 15 and May 17, 1968, the movie makes fun of the band's image and the bandmembers ' personae.

San Salvador Island or Samana Cay in the Bahamas is traditionally considered the site of Columbus ' first landfall, but some believe that studies of Columbus ' journals show that his descriptions of Guanahani much more closely fit Grand Turk than they do other candidates.

Guanahani is one of the islands of the Lucayan Archipelago in the Bahamas, but the exact island is a matter of some debate.

Most Caribbean islands in British possession including Jamaica, Trinidad and the Bahamas were permitted as destinations from Miami and New York with some routes also from Houston, Palm Beach and New Orleans.

Samana Cay ( Also known as Atwood Cay ) is the largest now uninhabited island in the Bahamas, believed by some researchers to have been the location of Columbus's first landfall in the Americas, on October 12, 1492.

Also, the Bahamas had some of the strictest bank secrecy laws in the world.

Nevertheless, sometime between spring 1646 and autumn 1648, Sayle took some seventy people to settle in the Bahamas.

It formed directly to the east of the Lesser Antilles and hit Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, some of the Bahamas, and Maine.

Caribair flew to 26 destinations in 9 countries, including Aruba, the Bahamas, Haiti, Netherlands Antilles, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, and some scheduled charter flights to the United States.

Preclearance exists at most major Canadian airports, theoretically enabling more convenient travel from those cities to the U. S. Arrangements also exist with some airports in Bermuda, The Bahamas, Aruba and at two airports in Ireland.

This review also revealed differences among the populations on the various islands in the Bahamas ( some of which had already been pointed out earlier ), leading to the suggestion of restricting A. l. bahamensis to the now extirpated population of the Acklins and Crooked Islands, while it was proposed that the two extant populations from the Abaco Islands and the Inagua Islands each represent a new subspecies.

* Bahamas – West Indian Flamingo ( national bird ), Blue Marlin ( national fish )

The $ ½ shows an older Queen Elizabeth II and the back shows a picture of Sister Sarah in the Nassau Straw Market ; the $ 1 shows Sir Lynden Pindling and on the back the Royal Bahamas Police Force Band ; the $ 3 has a young Queen Elizabeth II and on the back shows a Family Island Regatta with native sloops ; the $ 5 – Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield and the back shows a Junkanoo group ' rushing ' in the Junkanoo parade ; the $ 10 – an older Queen Elizabeth II ( replacing Sir Stafford Sands ) and the back shows the Hope Town Lighthouse and settlement in Abaco, the $ 20 – Sir Milo Butler ; the $ 50 – Sir Roland Symonette ; the $ 100 – an older Queen Elizabeth II and the back shows a jumping blue marlin, the national fish of The Bahamas.

A hamlet is a fish of the genus Hypoplectrus that is found mainly in coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, particularly around Florida and the Bahamas.

Chub Cay is the second largest island in the chain and is known an " the bill fish capital of the Bahamas.

* Epidemiologic notes and reports ciguatera fish poisoning — Bahamas, Miami.

The primary purpose of the trips was to restore the reputation of The Bahamas in these markets.

Together with Tainos who crossed over from Cuba to the southern Bahamas around the same time, these people became the Lucayans.

The Bahamas government attempted to appoint judicial authorities for the Turks in 1768, but these were refused by the Bermudians.

Calvi expanded Ambrosiano's interests further ; these included creating a number of off-shore companies in the Bahamas and South America ; a controlling interest in the Banca Cattolica del Veneto ; and funds for the publishing house Rizzoli to finance the Corriere della Sera newspaper ( giving Calvi control behind the scenes for the benefit of his associates in the P2 masonic lodge ).

In Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Bahamas, etc., there are 101 FM channels numbered from 200 ( center frequency 87. 9 MHz ) to 300 ( center frequency 107. 9 MHz ), though these numbers are rarely used outside the fields of radio engineering and government.

Some might be " sing-songish " ( Trinidad, Bahamas ), ( Bajan, Guyanese ), influenced by Irish English dialects ( Jamaican ), or have an accent influenced by any of these, as well as Spanish and indigenous languages in the case of the Central American English dialects such as the Belizean Creole ( Kriol ), or the Mískito Coastal Creole and Rama Cay Creole spoken in Nicaragua.

The Bahamas government attempted to appoint judicial authorities for the Turks in 1768, but these were refused by the Bermudians.

On April 18, the first of these depressions formed northeast of the Bahamas and tracked in a curved motion before dissipating over open water on April 21.

Excluded by these boundaries are Bermuda, The Bahamas, Hawaii, and Greenland.

As a result of these acquisitions, the company owns distillers in the United States, Canada, The Bahamas and Suriname.

Most commercially collected ambergris comes from The Bahamas in the Caribbean, particularly New Providence.

* In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in The Bahamas.

* Bahamas, St. Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

The Bimini Road, a submerged rock formation of large rectangular stones just off North Bimini Island in the Bahamas, was claimed by Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley to be evidence of the lost civilization.

The Bahamas is a stable, developing nation with an economy heavily dependent on tourism and offshore banking.

However, since December 2000, when the government enacted new regulations on the financial sector, many international businesses have left The Bahamas.

In 2004, over half a million tourists visited The Bahamas, most of whom are from the United States.

As of December 1998, the government had licensed 418 banks and trust companies in The Bahamas.

The Bahamas promulgated the International Business Companies ( IBC ) Act in January 1990 to enhance the country's status as a leading financial center.

The act served to simplify and reduce the cost of incorporating offshore companies in The Bahamas.

In February 1991, the government also legalized the establishment of Asset Protection Trusts in The Bahamas.

The Bahamas imports more than $ 250 million in foodstuffs per year, representing about 80 % of its food consumption.

The Bahamas is a beneficiary of the U. S .- Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act ( CBTPA ), Canada's CARIBCAN program, and the European Union's Lome IV Agreement.

Although the Bahamas participates in the political aspects of the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ), it has not entered into joint economic initiatives with other Caribbean states.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

Other smaller but more nimble players in the banking industry include Fidelity Bank ( Bahamas ) Ltd. ( FBB ) and Royal Fidelity Merchant Bank & Trust Limited ( RFMBT ).