Little Inagua
Little Inagua | ||
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Little Inagua satellite image | ||
Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
Archipelago | Inagua , Bahamas | |
Geographical location | 21 ° 30 ′ N , 73 ° 0 ′ W | |
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length | 17.3 km | |
width | 11.2 km | |
surface | 127 km² | |
Residents | uninhabited |
Little Inagua is the smaller sister island in the Inagua archipelago 8 km northeast of Great Inagua in the Bahamas .
The 126.9 km² island is uninhabited and was declared one of the country's 26 national parks in 2002, the Little Inagua National Park , which also includes the surrounding waters to a depth of 100 fathoms (= 182.88 m). The island is a breeding ground for sea turtles , but some wild donkeys and goats also live on it . It is overgrown with bushes and some Cuban royal palms , the only ones in the Bahamas.