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| Flights to Bahamas |
| Enjoy and book our selection of routes and flights to Bahamas: |
| - Flights from Andros Town, Bahamas to Nassau, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Nassau, Bahamas to Andros Town, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Nassau, Bahamas to Inagua, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Nassau, Bahamas to Mayaguana, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Nassau, Bahamas to San Andros, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Nassau, Bahamas to South Andros, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Nassau, Bahamas to Grand Bahama, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Nassau, Bahamas to South Bimini, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Nassau, Bahamas to Andros, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to Nassau, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Montego Bay, Jamaica to Nassau, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Martinique, Martinique to Nassau, Bahamas |
| - Flights from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Nassau, Bahamas |
| - Flights from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Grand Bahama, Bahamas |
| - Flights from San Andros, Bahamas to Nassau, Bahamas |
| - Flights from South Andros, Bahamas to Nassau, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Grand Bahama, Bahamas to Nassau, Bahamas |
| - Flights from South Bimini, Bahamas to Nassau, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Andros, Bahamas to Nassau, Bahamas |
| - Flights from Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands to Nassau, Bahamas |
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| » Bahamas Information |
| Across the Straits of Florida, just 50 miles from Miami begins the 120,000 square miles of ocean lightly scattered with 2,400 islands known collectively as the Bahamas. This diverse group of islands provides limitless vacation possibilities for young and old alike. |
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| » Bahamas General Information |
| Capital: Nassau |
| Currency: Bahamian Dollar (BSD) |
| Language: English |
| Telephone codes: 00 1242 |
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| » Bahamas Practical Information |
| › Public Holidays |
| New Year's Day; Good Friday; Easter Monday; Whit Monday; Labour Day (June); Independence Day (10 July); Emancipation Day (Aug); Discovery Day (Oct); Christmas; Boxing Day. |
| › Visas |
| US citizens do not need a passport or visa for stays of less than eight months, but must show proof of citizenship. Visas and passports are not required of citizens of Canada or the UK and Commonwealth who stay three weeks or less (though UK citizens will need to show their passports when re-entering the UK). Visitors from most other European countries need passports but not visas for stays of up to three months. Air passengers must have a return or ongoing airline ticket. |
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| » Bahamas History |
Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the New World in 1492 is believed to have been on the island of San Salvador (also called Watling's Island), in the southeastern Bahamas. He encountered Taino (also known as Lucayan) Amerindians and exchanged gifts with them.
Taino Indians from both northwestern Hispaniola and northeastern Cuba moved into the southern Bahamas about the 7th century AD and became the Lucayans. They appear to have settled the entire archipelago by the 12th century AD. There may have been as many as 40,000 Lucayans living in the Bahamas when Columbus arrived.
The Bahamian Lucayans were deported to Hispaniola as slaves, and within two decades Taino societies ceased to exist as a separate population due to forced labour, warfare, disease, emigration and outmarriage.
Some say the name 'Bahamas' derives from the Spanish for "shallow sea", baja mar. Others trace it to the Lucayan word for Grand Bahama Island, ba-ha-ma ("large upper middle land").
After the Lucayans were destroyed, the Bahamian islands were deserted until the arrival of English settlers from Bermuda in 1650. Known as the Eleutherian Adventurers, these people established settlements on the island now called Eleuthera (from the Greek word for freedom).
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718 but remained sparsely settled until the newly independent United States expelled thousands of American tories and their slaves. Many of these British Loyalists were given compensatory land grants in Canada and the Bahamas. Some 8,000 loyalists and their slaves moved to the Bahamas in the late 1700s from New York, Florida and the Carolinas.
The British granted the islands internal self-government in 1964 and, in 1973, Bahamians achieved full independence while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Since the 1950s, the Bahamian economy has been based on the twin pillars of tourism and financial services. Today, the country enjoys the third highest per capita income in the western hemisphere. |
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| Bahamas News |
Norman, Evert to marry in Bahamas
June 27, 2008
Golfing legend Greg Norman and former tennis star Chris Evert will marry this weekend in the Bahamas, the Australian Associated Press reported Thursday.... powered by "Caribbean Net News"
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Bahamian Atkins opens 100m campaign with 10.07
April 29, 2008
The 24-year-old sprinter, who blasted a superb 9.98 seconds at Berkeley?s Edwards Stadium a year ago, returned to clock 10.07secs to win the deciding race... powered by "Caribbean Net News"
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