Freeport
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city, district and free trade zone on Grand Bahama
Key facts
- Country
- The Bahamas
- Island
- Grand Bahama
- District
- City of Freeport
- Established
- August 4, 1955
- Type
- District Council
- Chief councillor
- Kendal Culmer
- Deputy chief councillor
- Ernie Barr
- City
- 558 km (215 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 10 m (33 ft)
- Density
- 48/km (120/sq mi)
- Metro
- 55,500
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern Time Zone )
- Iata airport code
- FPO
- Icao airport code
- MYGF
- Website
- http://gbpa.com/home/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone on the island of Grand Bahama in the northwest part of The Bahamas. In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres) of pineyard with substantial areas of swamp and scrubland by the Bahamian government with a mandate to economically develop the area. Freeport has grown to become the second most populous city in The Bahamas.
The main airport serving the city is the Grand Bahama International Airport, which receives domestic flights from various islands of The Bahamas as well as several international flights from the United States, Italy, and Canada. Freeport is also served by domestic Bahamian ferry services to other islands, and an international ferry connection to Miami.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Freeport” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.