• Objectives: Students will be able to: • Define the term archipelago and state why it is • • called an archipelago State the geographical location of The Bahamas List the names of islands, their geographical location where they may be found and the key information indigenous to each island • Archipelago: • islands: a group or chain of islands • sea with islands: an area of sea with many islands • Island: • piece of land surrounded by water: • an area of land, smaller than a continent, that is completely surrounded by water • Cay: • small island: a small low island or reef in the ocean, made of coral or sand, especially in the Caribbean • Weather forecaster: • A person who broadcast about weather • a person announcing weather conditions on a radio or television broadcast • The Bahamas is an archipelago – a group of over 700 islands and cays lying close to one another. The islands stretch in a northwesterly to southeasterly direction. • If the land area of all the islands is added together, they cover a total area of almost 14,000 square kilometers. • If we include the sea between the islands, The Bahamas is a country of about 260,000 square kilometers. • Since the Bahamian islands cover such a large area, there may be different kinds of weather occurring in different parts of the country at the same time. • When we listen to the weather forecast, it is different for each part of the Bahamas. Weather forecasters divide the country into three groups of islands. They are Northwestern, Central and Southeastern Bahamas. Which group of islands do you live in? North-Western Central South-Eastern Grand Bahama Cat Island Crooked Island Abaco Exuma Acklins Bimini Long Island Mayaguana Andros Rum Cay Inagua New Providence San Salvador Ragged Island Eleuthera Berry Island Islands Size in Km2 Highest Point Main Town Products Places of Interests Total Population Abaco 1681 km2 37 m •Cooper’s •Fish •Vegetables •Citrus •Treasur 10,061 •Cascrilla •Castle 428 Acklins Andros 497km2 5959 km2 43 m 36 m Town •Marsh Harbor •Sandy Point •Spring Point •Nicholl’s Fruits bark •Vegetables •Citrus Fruit •Water •Manufac- Town •Fresh Creek •Kemp’s Bay tured goods e Cay •Hope Town •Man-ofWar Cay Island lighthouse •Androsia factory •Blue holes 8,155 Islands Size in km2 Cat Island Eleuthera Spanish Wells 389 km2 518 km2 Highest Point Main Town Products 63 m •Arthur’s •Vegetables •Caves •Coma 1,678 •Pineapples •Glass •Vegetables Window Preacher’ •Citrus 10,524 58 m Town •New Bight •Port Howe •Spanish Wells •Dunmore Town •Governor’s Harbor •Rock Sound Places of Interests Total Population Hill Fruit •Fish s Cave Islands Size in Km2 Highest Point Main Town Products Places of Interests Total Population Exuma 290 km2 38 m •George •Onions •Elizabeth 3,539 Grand Bahama 1373 km2 21 m • West •Medicines •Refined Oil •Interna- 41,035 Town End •Eight Mile Rock •Freeport Harbor •National Land- Sea Park •Plantation ruins tional Bazaar •Garden of the Groves •Straw Market Islands Inagua Size in Km2 Highest Point Main Town Products Places of Interests Total Population 1679 km2 33 m •Matthew •Salt •Casca- •Morton’s 985 Town rilla bark Long Island New Providence 596 km2 207 km2 54 m 38 m • Deadman’s Cay •Clarence Town •Stella Maris •Nassau Salt Co. •National Park •Cattle •Fish •Citrus 3,107 Fruits •Rum •Poultry •Livestock •Bay Street •Forts •Queen’s Staircase •Straw Market •Water Tower 171,542