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Lucayan National Park is a national park in Grand Bahama, the Bahamas. The park was established in 1982 and has a land area of 40 acres (16 ha), and 1,937 acres (7.84 km 2 ) in total. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The park contains an underwater cave system with 6.4 mi (10.3 km) of charted tunnels.
The Lucayan Archipelago, also known as the Bahamian Archipelago, is an island group comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The archipelago is in the western North Atlantic Ocean , north of Cuba and the other Antillean Islands , and east and south-east of Florida .
Lucayan National Park. The Indigenous Lucayan people's name for the island was Bahama ('large upper middle island'). [8] [9] Grand Bahama's existence for almost two centuries was largely governed by the nature of the treacherous coral reefs surrounding the island, which repelled its Spanish claimants (who largely left it alone apart from infrequent en route stops by ships for provisions) while ...
The U.S. National Park Service is working with The Bahamas, particularly the African Bahamanian Museum and Research Center (ABAC) in Nassau, to develop interpretive programs at Red Bays, Andros as an international site connected to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Trail, which American slaves used to escape to freedom.
Lucaya is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas, a city on the island of Grand Bahama, approximately 105 mi (160 km) east-northeast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Lucaya's primary industry is tourism.
The Bahama Banks: Little Bahama Bank in the north, Great Bahama Bank in the south, and Cay Sal Bank in the west; and the Caicos Bank of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the east Map of 1888 showing the banks of the Lucayan Archipelago from Navidad Bank or Bajo Navidad north of the Dominican Republic in Hispaniola to Little Bahama Bank in The Bahamas
The name "Lucayan" is an Anglicization of the Spanish Lucayos, itself a hispanicization derived from the Lucayan Lukku-Cairi, which the people used for themselves, meaning "people of the islands". The Taíno word for "island", cairi , became cayo in Spanish and " cay " / ˈ k iː / in English [spelled "key" in American English].
The nearby Conch Bar Caves National Park hosts one of the largest cave systems in the Caribbean region. [6] The karst limestone caves were used as a guano mine during the 1880s. Lucayan Indian artifacts and the skeletal remains of animals were reportedly uncovered by the digging, but were not preserved. [7]