A banana is an elongated, edible fruit produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called “plantains”, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. Bananas didn’t come to the market in Bahamas until the 1960’s because of the…
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Bahamas Philately: Lerner Marine Research Laboratory
The Lerner Marine Research Laboratory was a research station on the island of North Bimini in The Bahamas. It was operated by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) from 1948 until 1975. The laboratory was named for AMNH trustee Michael Lerner. The station was located on the edge of…
View More Bahamas Philately: Lerner Marine Research LaboratoryBahamas Philately: Cable Beach Manor
Cable Beach Manor in Nassau was built by the Mauritian Count de Marigny in 1940. The Manor is styled in colonial design. Later owners included Lord Brownlow, and ADC to the Duke of Windsor, and Sir Victor Sassoon of Hong Kong. Since 1965 the Manor has been owned by the…
View More Bahamas Philately: Cable Beach ManorBahamas Philately: Bimini – North Bimini
North Bimini’s main settlement is Alice Town, a collection of shops, restaurants, and bars on a road known as “The King’s Highway”. The second major road is called Queens Highway and runs almost the length of the island parallel to Kings Highway. Settlements/Towns Bailey Town Accommodation Big Game Club and…
View More Bahamas Philately: Bimini – North BiminiBahamas Philately: Yachting
Yachting is the use of recreational boats and ships called yachts for racing or cruising. Yachts are distinguished from working ships mainly by their leisure purpose. “Yacht” derives from the Dutch word jacht (“hunt”). During the 1960’s a number of yacht clubs, havens and marinas were constructed to support the…
View More Bahamas Philately: YachtingBahamas Philately: Rum Cay
Rum Cay is an island of the Bahamas. Rum Cay was called Mamana (or Manigua), meaning “mid waters land”, by the native Lucayans. The island is believed to have acquired its modern name from a shipwrecked cargo of rum. Plantation boundaries known as ‘margins’ can be seen all over the…
View More Bahamas Philately: Rum CayBahamas Philately: San Salvador Island
San Salvador Island is an island and district of The Bahamas. It is widely believed that during Christopher Columbus’s first expedition to the New World, this island was the first land he sighted and visited on 12 October 1492. He named it San Salvador after Christ the Saviour. Columbus’s records…
View More Bahamas Philately: San Salvador IslandBahamas Philately: Abaco Islands – Pelican Cay
Pelican Cay is an uninhabited part of the Abaco Islands. In 1972, the Pelican Cays Land and Sea Park, a national park was established. The park has an area of 2,100 acres (8 km2). The park’s marine environment contains an extensive coral reef and undersea cave habitat. Over 170…
View More Bahamas Philately: Abaco Islands – Pelican CayBahamas Philately: Abaco Islands
Great and Little Abaco Islands and nearby cays form the northernmost group of the Bahama Islands. The candy-striped lighthouse on Elbow Cay has been a landfall for Bahamas-bound ships since the days when loyalists from New England and New York arrived in Abaco in 1783. Tidy, New England style settlements…
View More Bahamas Philately: Abaco IslandsBahamas Philately: Eleuthera – Savannah Sound
Savannah Sound is a small settlement situated 16 miles east of Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera, between Palmetto Point and Tarpum Bay. It was named “Windermere” during its early days, and was given the name Savannah Sound, because of the large Savannah (grassy, flat area) found in the eastern section of the…
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