- The Bahamas has the clearest water in the world. Visibility while diving is often more than 200 feet!
- Fewer than 50 of the islands have a village or town.
- The Bahamas has the world’s third-longest barrier reef.
- Dean’s Blue Hole, west of Clarence Town, Long Island, at 663 feet, is one of the deepest blue holes in the world.
- The first place Christopher Columbus landed when he came to the new world in 1492, he named San Salvador in the Bahamas.
- The word “mainland” is used by those on small outlying islands (called the Out Islands) to describe the larger islands, such as New Providence, Grand Bahama, Great Abaco, and Great Exuma. The “Far-Out Islands” are those even farther away.
- The world’s longest underwater cave system can be found in Lucayan National Park, Grand Bahama Island.
- Kalik (pronounced “click”), the beer of The Bahamas, is named after the kalikking sound of cowbells at Junkanoo, the island street parades held every December 26.
- There are only about 396,000 people in all the Bahamas, the majority on the island of New Providence where Nassau is located.
- The national sport of the Bahamas is sloop sailing.
- The Bahamas comes from the Spanish baja mar, which translates to “shallow sea.”
