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 1,600 residents
  • Description: island in the Bahamas
  • Also known as: “BS-CI”, “Cat island”, “Cat Island, Bahamas”, “île Cat”, “Кат (остров)”, “Кет”, and “キャッツ島”

Places of Interest

Highlights: New Bight Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Shane.torgerson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an airport in New Bight on Cat Island in The Bahamas.

Cat Island

Latitude
24.335° or 24° 20′ 6″ north
Longitude
-75.4575° or 75° 27′ 27″ west
Population
1,600
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
UN/LOCODE
BS CAT
Open location code
77P68GPV+22
Geo­Names ID
3572678
Wiki­data ID
Q1050154
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Cat Island” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ድመት ደሴት”
  • 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”
  • Galician: “Cat Island”
  • German: “Cat Island”
  • Greek: “Κατ Άιλαντ”
  • Gujarati: “કેટ આઇલેન્ડ”
  • Hausa: “Cat Island”
  • Hindi: “कैट द्वीप”
  • Indonesian: “Cat Island, Bahama”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Cat”
  • Irish: “Cat Island”
  • Italian: “Cat”
  • Japanese: “キャット島”
  • Javanese: “Cat Island”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಟ್ ದ್ವೀಪ”
  • Kazakh: “Мысық аралы”
  • Kirghiz: “Кот Арал”
  • Korean: “캣섬”
  • Latvian: “Kata sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Katės sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Kato sala”
  • Macedonian: “Мачкин Остров”
  • Malay: “Cat Island”
  • Marathi: “कॅट आईसलँड”
  • Minangkabau: “Pulau Cat, Bahama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cat Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cat Island”
  • Norwegian: “Cat Island”
  • Oromo: “Cat Island”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਟ ਦੀਪ”
  • Persian: “جزیره کت، باهاما”
  • Persian: “جزیره کت”
  • Polish: “Cat Island”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Cat”
  • Pushto: “پیشو جزیره”
  • Romanian: “Insula Cat”
  • Russian: “Кэт”
  • Serbian: “Острво мачака (Бахами)”
  • Serbian: “Острво мачака”
  • Sinhala: “කැට් දූපත දිස්ත්‍රික්කය, බහමාස්”
  • Sinhala: “කැට් දූපත”
  • Slovenian: “Cat Island”
  • Somali: “Cat Island”
  • Spanish: “Isla Cat”
  • Swahili: “Cat Island”
  • Swedish: “Cat Island, Bahamas”
  • Swedish: “Cat Island”
  • Tagalog: “Pulong Cat, Bahamas”
  • Tagalog: “Pulong Cat”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираи Гурба”
  • Tamil: “கேட் ஐஸ்லாந்து”
  • Tatar: “Cat Island”
  • Telugu: “క్యాట్ దీవి”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดกาวบั่ง”
  • Turkish: “Cat Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Кет-Айленд”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ کیٹ، بہاماس”
  • Uzbek: “Mushuk Orol”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Cat”

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