Grand Bahama
Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas. It is the third largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Freeport.
Freeport
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Freeport is a city on Grand Bahama. With a population of 27,000 in 2000, it was the second most populous city in The Bahamas. It is a free trade zone built on swamp land and scrub land. The city was severely damaged by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Lucayan National Park.
Lucayan National Park
Nature reserve
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Lucayan National Park is a national park in Grand Bahama, the Bahamas. The park was established in 1982 and has a land area of 40 acres, and 1,937 acres in total. The park contains an underwater cave system with 6.4 mi of charted tunnels.
Grand Bahama
- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Bahamas
- Also known as: “Grand Bahama Island”, “Great Bahama Island”, and “Ile Bahama”
- Category: landform
- Location: Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Caribbean, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Grand Bahama” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باهاما العظمى”
- Arabic: “بهاما الكبرى”
- Arabic: “جراند باهاما”
- Arabic: “غراند بهاما”
- Armenian: “Մեծ Բահամա”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Bahama”
- Basque: “Bahama Handia”
- Catalan: “Grand Bahama Island”
- Cebuano: “Grand Bahama Island”
- Chinese: “大巴哈馬島”
- Chinese: “大巴哈马岛”
- Czech: “Grand Bahama”
- Czech: “Velká Bahama”
- Dutch: “Grand Bahama”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باهاما الكبرى”
- Esperanto: “Granda Bahamo”
- Faroese: “Grand Bahama”
- Finnish: “Grand Bahama”
- French: “Grand Bahama”
- Galician: “Gran Bahama”
- Georgian: “დიდი ბაჰამა”
- German: “Grand Bahama”
- Greek: “Γκραντ Μπαχάμα”
- Hebrew: “גרנד בהאמה”
- Italian: “Grand Bahama”
- Japanese: “グランド・バハマ島”
- Korean: “그랜드 바하마 섬”
- Korean: “그랜드 바하마”
- Korean: “그랜드바하마”
- Korean: “그랜드바하마섬”
- Lithuanian: “Didžioji Bahama”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grand Bahama”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grand Bahama”
- Persian: “گرند باهاما”
- Polish: “Grand Bahama”
- Polish: “Wielka Bahama”
- Portuguese: “Grande Bahama”
- Russian: “Большая Багама”
- Russian: “Большой Багама”
- Serbian: “Velika Bahama”
- Serbian: “Велика Бахама”
- Serbian: “Велики Бахами”
- Slovak: “Grand Bahama”
- Slovenian: “Grand Bahama”
- Spanish: “Gran Bahama”
- Swedish: “Grand Bahama Island”
- Swedish: “Grand Bahama”
- Turkish: “Büyük Bahama”
- Turkish: “Grand Bahama”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Багама”
- Urdu: “گرینڈ بہاماس”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Grand Bahama”. Photo: Pietro, CC BY-SA 3.0.