Little Inagua

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Little Inagua
Little Inagua satellite image
Little Inagua satellite image
Waters Atlantic Ocean
Archipelago Inagua , Bahamas
Geographical location 21 ° 30 ′  N , 73 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 21 ° 30 ′  N , 73 ° 0 ′  W
Little Inagua (Bahamas)
Little Inagua
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.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Bahamas National Trust: The National Parks of The Bahamas
  2. ^ Bahamas Directory: Little Inagua National Park
  3. Lonely Planet: Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, p. 411