Cat Island

Cat Island is located in the Bahamas, and is one of its districts. Cat Island also has the nation's highest point, . It rises to 63 metres and is topped by a monastery called The Hermitage.
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  • Type: island with 1,610 residents
  • Description: island in the Bahamas
  • Also known as: Cat Island, Bahamas

Places of Interest

Highlights include New Bight Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport in New Bight on Cat Island in The Bahamas. The airport has domestic passenger flights to one destination, Nassau. The flight to Nassau from is 84 miles and takes on average 30 minutes.

Cat Island

Latitude
24.335° or 24° 20′ 6″ north
Longitude
-75.4575° or 75° 27′ 27″ west
Population
1,610
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
United Nations Location Code
BS CAT
Open location code
77P68GPV+22
Geo­Names ID
3572678
Wiki­data ID
Q1050154
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Cat Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: جزيرة كات
  • Azerbaijani: Ket-Aylend (Baham adaları)
  • Azerbaijani: Ket-Aylend
  • Belarusian: Востраў Кэт
  • Belarusian: Кэт
  • Bengali: ক্যাট আইল্যান্ড
  • Catalan: Illa Cat
  • Cebuano: Cat Island
  • Chinese: 卡特岛
  • Chinese: 卡特島
  • Czech: Cat Island
  • Danish: Cat Island
  • Dutch: Cat Island
  • Egyptian Arabic: جزيره كات
  • Finnish: Cat Island
  • French: Cat Island
  • French: île Cat
  • Galician: Cat Island
  • German: BS-CI
  • German: Cat Island
  • Greek: Κατ Άιλαντ
  • Gujarati: કેટ આઇલેન્ડ
  • Hindi: कैट द्वीप
  • Indonesian: Cat Island, Bahama
  • Indonesian: Pulau Cat
  • Irish: Cat Island
  • Italian: Cat Island
  • Italian: Cat
  • Japanese: キャッツ島
  • Japanese: キャット島
  • Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಟ್ ದ್ವೀಪ
  • Korean: 캣섬
  • Latvian: Kata sala
  • Lithuanian: Katės sala
  • Lithuanian: Kato sala
  • Macedonian: Кет
  • Macedonian: Мачкин Остров
  • Malay: Cat Island
  • Marathi: कॅट आईसलँड
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Cat Island
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Cat Island
  • Norwegian: Cat Island
  • Persian: جزیره کت، باهاما
  • Polish: Cat Island
  • Portuguese: Cat island
  • Portuguese: Cat Island
  • Portuguese: Ilha Cat
  • Romanian: Insula Cat
  • Russian: Кат (остров)
  • Russian: Кэт
  • Serbian: Острво мачака (Бахами)
  • Serbian: Острво мачака
  • Sinhala: කැට් දූපත දිස්ත්‍රික්කය, බහමාස්
  • Sinhala: කැට් දූපත
  • Slovenian: Cat Island
  • Spanish: Cat Island
  • Spanish: Isla Cat
  • Swedish: Cat Island, Bahamas
  • Swedish: Cat Island
  • Tagalog: Pulong Cat, Bahamas
  • Tagalog: Pulong Cat
  • Tamil: கேட் ஐஸ்லாந்து
  • Telugu: క్యాట్ దీవి
  • Thai: จังหวัดกาวบั่ง
  • Turkish: Cat Adası
  • Ukrainian: Кет-Айленд
  • Urdu: جزیرہ کیٹ، بہاماس
  • Vietnamese: Đảo Cat

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