BAHAMAS

Located north of Cuba and southeast of Florida, the Bahamas is comprised of 700 island and over 2,000 rocks and cays, sprinkled over 100,000 square miles of ocean.  The Bahamas is the site of Columbus’s first landfall in the New World in 1492.  The climate in the Bahamas is tropical.  The low elevation gives the Bahamas a warm and winterless climate.  With the exception of a brief report in Freeport in January 1977, the Bahamas have been free of snowfall.

Tourist attractions include the capital city of Nassau, Atlantis Resort, Bimini Island, and Port Lucaya Marketplace on Grand Bahama Island.