Harbor Island is an island and administrative district in the Bahamas and is located off the northeastern coast of Eleuthera Island. It has a population of 1,762 (census 2010).
The only town on the island is Dunmore Town, named after the Bahamas governor from 1786 to 1798, John Murray, the 4th Earl of Dunmore, who has a summer residence on Harbor Island.
Video Harbour Island, Bahamas
Tourism
Harbor Island is famous for its young red sand beach, which is found along the east side of the island. The pink color comes from the foraminifera, a microscopic organism that actually has a pinkish reddish shell. Harbor Island is a popular holiday destination for Americans. Known as Briland for the locals, the colorful Harbor Island with British Colonial buildings and streets lined up. Harbor Island is part of the Bahamas Out Islands.
In the mid-1960s, American actor Brett King and his wife, Sharon, founded Coral Sands Hotel on Harbor Island.
Maps Harbour Island, Bahamas
Transportation
Pulau ini dapat diakses dengan pesawat melalui Bandara Eleuthera Utara, diikuti dengan naik taksi air pendek dari Eleuthera Utara yang berdekatan.
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Referensi
- "The Harbour Island Story" Anne & amp; Jim Lawlor (Macmillan Caribbean, 2008) ISBN 978-0-333-97051-5
- Paul Albury: Kisah The Bahama (Macmillan Caribbean, London, 1975) ISBN 0-333-17132-2
- "Out Island Doctor", Evan Cottman;
- "Di bawah Pohon besar," Pip Simmons, editor; Narator 'Paman Gundy', Foto Barbra Young;
- "Sarapan 99-Cent", Patricia Glinton-Meicholas;
- "Adegan Bahamian," Susan J. Wallace;
- "Angin Dari Carolina", Robert Wilder.
- Michael Craton dan Gail Saunders: Islanders in the Stream: Sejarah Orang Bahama - Volume Satu: Dari Aborigin Hingga Akhir Perbudakan (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1999) ISBN 0-8203-2122-2
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