ABACO FACTS (including likelihood of adverse shark encounter or shipwreck)

LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE OF THE DELPHI CLUB, ABACO, BAHAMAS

The precise Longitude and Latitude coordinates of the Pineapple on the centre of the roof of the Delphi Club are, respectively, -77.1787834167480 and 26.20450323936187

MAYDAY MAYDAY…

Eight ships and two trains (yes, really):

USS Adirondack, a wooden steam- and sail-powered Federal gunboat. She ran aground in 1862, 6 months from launch
‘Barge’ – an old landing craft
Bonita – an English WWII transport vessel
Demira – a steel-hulled freighter, sunk in a hurricane in 1928
USS San Jacinto, a Civil War gunboat that was both steam- and sail-powered…Until she ran aground in 1865
San Juan Evangelista
The Viceroy, a steamship wrecked around 1900
HMS Mermaid, driven onto a reef in a storm and wrecked in 1759 (undiscovered until 1987)
Locomotives x 2.

CHECK OUT Cap’n Dan Berg’s ABACO SHIPWRECK DIRECTORY for more details

[PS I have only just noticed, and emphatically deny responsibility for, the embedded ads for Bikini-Expo.com Think of them as a bonus, if you wish]

Here is the ‘Ships Discovery’ map of five early 16th century wrecks in ‘Lucayan Islands’ configured in a way that makes the precise locations rather hard to identify…

ABACO IN NUMBERS

1 highway (130 miles long)

1 roundabout (near Marsh Harbour airport)

1 set of traffic lights (in Marsh Harbour)

1 airfield (Sandy Point)

2 international airports (Marsh Harbour and Treasure Cay)

2 main lighthouses (Hole-in-the-Wall, Hope Town)

5 National Parks (terrestrial and marine)

5 main inhabited Cays (Walker’s, Green Turtle, Great Guana, Man-o-War, Elbow)

5 wild horses (only one stallion and 4 mares left)

5 the number of known species of marine turtles (out of 7) found in Bahamas
waters (Green, Loggerhead, Hawksbill, Leatherback and Olive Ridley turtles)

101 steps to climb inside Hope Town lighthouse

106 miles north of Nassau

134 feet – the highest point above sea level

175 miles east of Palm Beach Fl.

200 square miles covered by The Marls

776 square miles total area

900 – approximate number of Abaco-registered vehicles

1973 the year of Independence

3000 Abaco parrots

ROLLING HARBOUR ”where it’s safe to dip your toes in the water…”

‘INTERNATIONAL SHARK ATTACK FILE’

1749-2010 MAP OF THE BAHAMAS AND THE ANTILLES CONFIRMED UNPROVOKED SHARK ATTACKS


Territory	Total Attacks	Fatal Attacks	Last Fatality	Territory	Total Attacks	Fatal Attacks	Last Fatality
Grand Bahama Is.	5	0		Cuba	11	7	1931
Exuma	2	0		Puerto Rico	6	2	1924
Andros	3	0		Virgin Is.	4	2	1972
Bimini	3	0		Haiti	4	1	1921
Abaco Is.	6	0		Dominican Republic	3	2	1963
New Providence	2	0		Jamaica	1	1	1922
Cay Sal Bank	1	0		Cayman Is.	2	0
San Salvador	1	0		Netherland Antilles	2	0
Turks and Caicos	1	0		Martinique	1	0
Rum Cay Island	1	0		St. Martin	1	0
Unspecified	1	0
BAHAMAS	26	0		ANTILLES	35	15	1972