Andros in the Bahamas

8 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

View from Saddleback Cay © Tim Horton/cc-by-sa-2.5

View from Saddleback Cay © Tim Horton/cc-by-sa-2.5

Andros Island is an archipelago within the Bahamas, the largest of the 26 inhabited Bahamian Islands. Politically considered a single island, Andros in total has an area greater than all the other 700 Bahamian islands combined. The land area of Andros consists of hundreds of small islets and cays connected by mangrove estuaries and tidal swamp lands, together with three major islands: North Andros, Mangrove Cay, and South Andros. The three main islands are separated by “bights”, estuaries that trifurcate the island, connecting the island’s east and west coasts. It is 104 miles (167 km) long by 40 miles (64 km) wide, at the widest point. The land area is as large as the state of Delaware in the United States.   read more…

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