Acklins

Acklins
Map of Acklins
Waters	Atlantic Ocean
Archipelago	Bahamas
Geographical location	22 ° 27 ′  N , 73 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 22 ° 27 ′  N , 73 ° 57 ′  W
surface	389 km²
Residents	560 (2010) 1.4 inhabitants / km²
main place	Snug Corner

Acklins is an island and a district of the Bahamas . The Acklins and Crooked Islands are approximately 239 miles southeast of Nassau.

It belongs to the group of islands Crooked Iceland group , a shallow lagoon called Bight of Acklins encloses a large extent and is located southeast of the Bahamas, and the largest islands Crooked Iceland in the north and Acklins in the southeast are. The smaller ones are Long Cay (formerly: Fortune Island ) in the northwest and Castle Island in the south of the group.

The islands were of loyalists of the American Revolution settled in the late 1780s, who built here cotton plantations with more than 1,000 employed slaves. After the ban on slavery in the British Empire , slavery became uneconomical, and the replacement, diving for sponges, is no longer economical either. Nowadays the inhabitants live from fishing and small farms.

The main town of the archipelago is Colonel Hill on Crooked Island, the main town of the island is Snug Corner .

The population on Acklins at the 2010 census was 560.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bahamas Out Islands (June 6, 2013) from http://the-bahamas.net/the-islands/bahamas-out-islands-acklins-and-crooked-islands/

Web links

Wikivoyage: Acklins  - travel guide