Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas - Holiday Inn - postcard, stamp, 1969 pmk

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  • Picture / Image:  Holiday Inn, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas
  • Publisher: Curiteichcolor
  • Postally used: yes
  • Stamp:  Bahamas 11c Hospital definitive
  • Postmark(s): Freeport 1969 wavy line
  • Sent to:  Portland, Penna, USA
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, with the town of West End located 56 nautical miles (64 mi; 104 km) east of Palm Beach, Florida.[2] It is the fourth largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays. The island is roughly 530 square miles (1,400 km2) in area and approximately 153 kilometres (95 mi) long west to east and 24 kilometres (15 mi) at its widest point north to south. Administratively, the island consists of the Freeport Bonded Area and the districts of East Grand Bahama and West Grand Bahama.[3] Nearly half of the homes on the island were damaged or destroyed in early September 2019 due to Hurricane Dorian.[4][5]

Lucayan National Park

The Spanish gave the island the name Gran Bajamar, meaning "Great Shallows", and what the eventual name of the Bahamas islands as a whole is derived from. However, the Lucayan (pre-Columbian) name for the island was Bahama.[8] Grand Bahama's existence for almost two centuries was largely governed by the nature of these "great shallows" - the coral reefs surrounding the island were treacherous, and repelled its Spanish claimants (who largely left it alone apart from infrequent en route stops by ships for provisions) while attracting pirates, who would lure ships onto the reefs where they would run aground and be plundered. The Spaniards took little interest in the island after enslaving the native Lucayan inhabitants.[citation needed]

British rule

In 1670, Charles II of England issued a land patent, granting the Bahamas to the eight Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas.[9] By 1828, Grand Bahama remained almost unpopulated.[10]

A brief smuggling boom occurred during the years of prohibition in the United States, when West End, Grand Bahama, and Bimini served as waystations for illicit imports of liquor to the U.S.[11]

The major settlement that developed on the island was Freeport-Lucaya, but other hamlets and settlements emerged, including Russell Town, Williams Town, Smith's Point, Mather Town, Pinder's Point, Lewis Yard, Hunter's, and Mack Town.[12]