Key facts
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Coordinates
- 26°39′N 78°19′W / 26.650°N 78.317°W / 26.650; -78.317
- Archipelago
- Bahamas
- Area
- 1,373 km (530 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 40 ft (12 m)
- Largest settlement
- Freeport
- Population
- 47,475 (2022)
- Pop density
- 34.75/km (90/sq mi)
- Time zone
- EST ( UTC-5 )
- Summer dst
- EDT ( UTC-4 )
- Iso code
- BS-EG, BS-FP, BS-WG
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- The Bahamas
- Country
- The Bahamas
- Located in
- The Bahamas
- Capital
- Freeport
- Population
- 51756
- Area
- 1096
- Elevation
- 5
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00
- Body of water
- Caribbean Sea
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- Grand Bahama Island (Little Bahama Bank) 3.jpg
- Width
- 27
- Length
- 154
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- Commons category
- Grand Bahama
- topic's main category
- Category:Grand Bahama
- located in/on physical feature
- Lucayan Archipelago
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Encyclopedic overview
Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas. It is the third largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays. The island is roughly 530 square miles (1,400 km) in area and approximately 153 kilometres (95 miles) long west to east and 24 kilometres (15 miles) at its widest point north to south. Its westernmost town, West End, is located 56 nautical miles (64 miles; 104 km) east of Palm Beach, Florida. Administratively, the island consists of the Freeport Bonded Area and the districts of East Grand Bahama and West Grand Bahama. Nearly half of the homes on the island were damaged or destroyed in early September 2019 by Hurricane Dorian.
Climate
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grand Bahama” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.