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New Providence

Paradise Island

Paradise Island is a small island just off of , . It is dominated by the Las Vegas-style Atlantis resort, which is responsible for an amazing 11% of the Bahamas' GNP.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: a resort island in the Bahamas‘ capital city of Nassau
  • Also known as: “Hog Island” and “Hog Island (former)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nassau Public Library and Fort Montagu.

Library
Photo: Zhangj1079, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The and Museum, in Nassau, is the largest and oldest of five libraries in the Bahamas. The library was founded in 1837, when the Bahamas Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge was combined with a reading society.

Fort
Photo: Oscar Flowers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small fort of four cannon on the eastern shore of New Providence Island Bahamas. Peter Henry Bruce oversaw the construction of the fort that began in 1741 to defend the British possession from Spanish invaders.

Fort
Photo: Taugenichts80, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a fort located in the city of Nassau on the island of in . It was built to provide protection to Nassau. The fort, which is shaped like a paddle steamer, was built in 1793 by Lord Dunmore to protect Nassau from pirates.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nassau.

Photo: Dolphins, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the capital of The . It is the largest city in the Bahamas and its low-rise sprawl dominates the eastern half of . The city's name is locally pronounced like "NAH-sor" but without the R.

Paradise Island

Latitude
25.0834° or 25° 5′ 0″ north
Longitude
-77.3213° or 77° 19′ 17″ west
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
United Nations Location Code
BS PID
Open location code
77Q43MMH+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 32897843
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3571723
Wiki­data ID
Q3181503
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Paradise Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة باراديس”
  • Basque: “Paradise uhartea”
  • Catalan: “Paradise Island”
  • Cebuano: “Paradise Island”
  • Chinese: “天堂島”
  • Chinese: “帕拉代斯島”
  • Dutch: “Paradise Island”
  • French: “Paradise Island”
  • German: “Paradise Island”
  • Hebrew: “אי פרדייס”
  • Italian: “Paradise Island (Bahamas)”
  • Italian: “Paradise Island”
  • Japanese: “パラダイス島”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paradise Island”
  • Norwegian: “Paradise Island”
  • Persian: “جزیره پارادایس”
  • Polish: “Paradise Island”
  • Portuguese: “Paradise Island”
  • Russian: “Paradise Island”
  • Spanish: “Isla Paradise”
  • Spanish: “Paradise Island”
  • Swahili: “Paradise Island”
  • Swedish: “Paradise Island”
  • Wu Chinese: “天堂岛”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Paradise Island”. Photo: Der-wuppertaler, CC BY-SA 3.0.