Bahama Islands

Bahama Islands, which is called New Providence, and is about four days sail towards the southeast.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

The pirates now sailed for Hispaniola, but with bad luck, or owing to retribution, a sudden hurricane arose which drove them back to the one spot in the West Indies they must have been most anxious to avoid -- that is, the Bahama Islands.

The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

It was under his government, in 1508, that the King was advised that the Lucayo Islands, now known as the Bahama Islands, were full of people, and that these people could be carried over to Hispaniola, instructed in the Christian religion and civilized.

Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army 1914

The British naturalist Mark Catesby spent 17 years putting together his pioneering "Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands," published between 1731 and 1743.

Up Close With Fur and Feathers 2011

Mark Catesby/ The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands Mr. Catesby was the first to depict birds in association with the plants or animals they ate.

Up Close With Fur and Feathers 2011

In these . . . they descend the river on trading and hunting expeditions on the sea coast, neighboring islands and keys . . . and sometimes cross the gulph of Mexico, extending their navigations to the Bahama Islands and even to Cuba.

A Vessel of Indian Culture Stuart Ferguson 2011

It was a hundred-foot-long barge permanently anchored near North Cat Cay, a dot on the map near Bimini, westernmost of the Bahama Islands, only fifty miles off the Florida coast.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

It was a hundred-foot-long barge permanently anchored near North Cat Cay, a dot on the map near Bimini, westernmost of the Bahama Islands, only fifty miles off the Florida coast.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Susan Gibbes Robinson, a leading Columbia educator and philanthropist, has given a rare, first edition of Mark Catesby's 18th-century The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands to the University of South Carolina Libraries.

March 2009 2009

This ecoregion is distributed throughout the northern Bahamas Islands including coverage on the eastern third of Andros Island and Abaco, Andros & Grand Bahama Islands also have large tracts of dry forest.

Bahamian dry forests 2007