Grand Bahama, the Glossary
Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, with the town of West End located east of Palm Beach, Florida.[1]
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76 relations: Abaco Islands, Agriculture, Aroma compound, Atlantic Ocean, Bahama swallow, Bahama woodstar, Bat, Bimini, Buckeye Partners, Buddy Hield, Buffy flower bat, Carolinas, Casuarina, Charles II of England, Citrus production, CNN, Containerization, Coral reef, Crop, Cruise ship, Dairy, East Grand Bahama, Eastern Time Zone, Eight Mile Rock, Endangered species, Equinor, Export, Finland, Fishery, France, Free National Movement, Freeport, Bahamas, Grand Bahama International Airport, Grand Bahama Port Authority, Hawksbill Creek Agreement, Hong Kong, Human Development Index, Hurricane Dorian, Hutchison Whampoa, Immunology, Invasive species, Jack Hayward, Jack Tar Hotels, Jonquel Jones, Land patent, List of mammals of the Bahamas, Livestock, Local government in the Bahamas, Lord proprietor, Lucaya, Bahamas, ... Expand index (26 more) »
Abaco Islands
The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas, about 193 miles (167.7 nautical miles or 310.6 km) east of Miami, Florida.
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
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Aroma compound
An aroma compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance or flavoring, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Bahama swallow
The Bahama swallow (Tachycineta cyaneoviridis) is an endangered swallow endemic to The Bahamas.
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Bahama woodstar
The Bahama woodstar or Bahama hummingbird (Nesophlox evelynae) is a species of hummingbird endemic to the Lucayan archipelago, including the Bahamian and Turks and Caicos islands.
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Bat
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.
Bimini
Bimini is the westernmost district of the Bahamas and comprises a chain of islands located about due east of Miami.
Buckeye Partners
Buckeye Partners, formerly known as the Buckeye Pipeline Company, is a distributor of petroleum in the East and Midwest areas of the United States.
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Buddy Hield
Chavano Rainer "Buddy" Hield (born December 17, 1992) is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Buffy flower bat
The buffy flower bat (Erophylla sezekorni) is a species of bat in the leaf-nosed bat family, Phyllostomidae.
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Carolinas
The Carolinas, also known simply as Carolina, are the U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina considered collectively.
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Casuarina
Casuarina, also known as she-oak, Australian pine and native pine, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae, and is native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa.
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Charles II of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.
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Citrus production
Citrus production encompasses the production of citrus fruit, which are the highest-value fruit crop in terms of international trade.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Containerization
Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers, or ISO containers).
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Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.
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Crop
A crop is a plant that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.
Cruise ship
Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing.
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Dairy
A dairy is a place where milk is stored and where butter, cheese and other dairy products are made, or a place where those products are sold.
East Grand Bahama
East Grand Bahama is a district of the Bahamas, situated on the eastern part of the island of Grand Bahama, with a population collectively of 11,411 people.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
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Eight Mile Rock
Eight Mile Rock is one of the Grand Bahama island's oldest communities.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.
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Equinor
Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian state-owned multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway.
Export
An export in international trade is a good produced in one country that is sold into another country or a service provided in one country for a national or resident of another country.
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
Fishery
Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place (a.k.a., fishing grounds).
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Free National Movement
The Free National Movement (abbreviated FNM) is a political party in the Bahamas formed in the early 1970s and led by Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield.
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Freeport, Bahamas
Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone on the island of Grand Bahama of the northwest Bahamas.
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Grand Bahama International Airport
Grand Bahama International Airport (GBIA) is an international airport in Freeport, Bahamas.
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The Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA or "Port Authority") is a privately held corporation that also acts as the municipal authority for Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, The Bahamas.
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Hawksbill Creek Agreement
The Hawksbill Creek Agreement named in honour of the Hawksbill Sea Turtle was an agreement signed in 1955 between the government of the Bahamas and Wallace Groves to establish a city and free trade zone on Grand Bahama Island with an aim of spurring economic development in the area.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Hurricane Dorian
Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, which became the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas, and is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic basin in terms of maximum sustained winds.
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Hutchison Whampoa
Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL) was an investment holding company based in Hong Kong.
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Immunology
Immunology is a branch of biology and medicine that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms.
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Invasive species
An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.
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Jack Hayward
Sir Jack Arnold Hayward (14 June 1923 – 13 January 2015) was an English businessman, property developer, philanthropist, and president of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Jack Tar Hotels
Jack Tar Hotels was an international hotel chain based in the United States.
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Jonquel Jones
Jonquel Orthea Jones (born January 5, 1994) is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
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Land patent
A land patent is a form of letters patent assigning official ownership of a particular tract of land that has gone through various legally-prescribed processes like surveying and documentation, followed by the letter's signing, sealing, and publishing in public records, made by a sovereign entity.
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List of mammals of the Bahamas
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Bahamas.
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Livestock
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Local government in the Bahamas
Local government in The Bahamas exists at two levels: 32 districts and 41 towns.
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Lord proprietor
A lord proprietor is a person granted a royal charter for the establishment and government of an English colony in the 17th century.
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Lucaya, Bahamas
Lucaya is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas, a city on the island of Grand Bahama, approximately 105 mi (160 km) east-northeast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Lucayan people
The Lucayan people were the original residents of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands before the European colonisation of the Americas.
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Medication
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.
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Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
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Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers.
Progressive Liberal Party
The Progressive Liberal Party (abbreviated PLP) is a populist and social liberal party in the Bahamas.
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Prohibition in the United States
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Rum-running
Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.
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Saffir–Simpson scale
The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) classifies hurricanes—which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms—into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.
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Shrub
A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.
Tecoma stans
Tecoma stans is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas.
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The Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Bahamas Local Government Act 1996
The Bahamas Local Government Act of 1996 is a piece of legislation of the Bahamas.
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Tiger shark
The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is a species of ground shark, and the only extant member of the genus Galeocerdo and family Galeocerdonidae.
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Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.
Transshipment
Transshipment, trans-shipment or transhipment is the shipment of goods or containers to an intermediate destination, then to another destination.
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Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.
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Tropical monsoon climate
An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate subtype that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category Am.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
Wallace Groves
Wallace Groves (–30 January 1988) was a prominent financier and fraudster, who, after his release from federal prison in 1944, moved to the Bahamas and there founded and operated the free trade zone, resort, and casino development Freeport on Grand Bahama Island.
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West End Airport
West End Airport is an airport that serves Grand Bahama.
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West End, Bahamas
West End (also referred to as "Settlement Point") is the oldest town and westernmost settlement on the Bahamian island of Grand Bahama.
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West Grand Bahama
West Grand Bahama is one of 31 districts of The Bahamas.
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Wet season
The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.
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Woodland
A woodland is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the plurale tantum woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see differences between British, American and Australian English explained below).
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Bahama
Also known as Gran Bajamar, Grand Bahama Island.
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