• Objectives: Students will be able to:
• Define the term archipelago and state why it is
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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