For the sand bank in the Irish Sea near the Isle of Man, see Bahama Bank.
Submerged carbonate platforms that make up much of the Bahama Archipelago
The Bahama Banks: Little Bahama Bank in the north and Great Bahama Bank in the south. The Cay Sal Bank is also visible.
The Bahama Banks are the submerged carbonate platforms that make up much of the Bahama Archipelago. The term is usually applied in referring to either the Great Bahama Bank around Andros Island, or the Little Bahama Bank of Grand Bahama Island and Great Abaco, which are the largest of the platforms, and the Cay Sal Bank north of Cuba. The islands of these banks are politically part of the Bahamas. Other banks are the three banks of the Turks and Caicos Islands, namely the Caicos Bank of the Caicos Islands, the bank of the Turks Islands, and wholly submerged Mouchoir Bank. Farther southeast are the equally wholly submerged Silver Bank and Navidad Bank north of the Dominican Republic.
The BahamaBanks are the submerged carbonate platforms that make up much of the Bahama Archipelago. The term is usually applied in referring to either...
separate banks, the creation of the Cay Sal Bank, plus the Little and Great BahamaBanks. Sedimentation from the "carbonate factory" of each bank, or atoll...
Sal Bank (Spanish: Placer de los Roques) is the third largest (after Great BahamaBank and Little BahamaBank) and the westernmost of the BahamaBanks. It...
Islands to the north and Eleuthera island to the south. It separates the BahamaBanks and forms one of the deepest underwater canyon systems known. There are...
islands are surface projections of two oceanic BahamaBanks - the Little BahamaBank and the Great BahamaBank. The highest point is only 63 metres (207 feet)...
The BahamaBank is a sand bank across Ramsey Bay, about 3 miles (2.6 nmi; 4.8 km) off the east coast of the Isle of Man 4 miles (3.5 nmi; 6.4 km) northeast...
and results in the high rate of formation and accumulation. The Great BahamaBanks has been accumulating oolitic sand in the late Cretaceous period and...
The BahamaBank Lightship was a Lightvessel stationed on the BahamaBank east of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man. The original Lightvessel was stationed on the...
large banks, such as Dogger Bank and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, are among the richest fishing grounds in the world. There are some banks that were...
productive areas include the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the Scotian Shelf, Georges Bank off Cape Cod, the BahamaBanks, the waters around Iceland, the...
associated group of smaller islands. Eleuthera forms a part of the Great BahamaBank. The island of Eleuthera incorporates the smaller Harbour Island. "Eleuthera"...
are typically found on shallow carbonate platforms, exemplified by the BahamaBanks, as well as on and around the Yucatán Peninsula, such as at the Great...
there. Spectacular examples of present-day carbonate platforms are the BahamaBanks under which the platform is roughly 8 km thick, the Yucatan Peninsula...
outpost on Cay Sal island, which also had an airstrip. Another island in the banks, Elbow Cays, has a lighthouse built in 1839 by the British. The United States...
level plateau, extending from a point to the eastward of the Little BahamaBanks to Cape Hatteras—off Cape Canaveral nearly 200 [nautical] miles [230...
160 mph (260 km/h). The cyclone weakened further while crossing the BahamaBanks, and at 01:00 UTC on August 24, Andrew hit the southern Berry Islands...
with special instructions to cruise in the vicinity of Nassau and the BahamaBanks. At Key West she was found unready for sea service and stationed at West...
The Bahamas, Cuba, and Florida), S. n. amaurus (endemic to the Great BahamaBank, on San Salvador Island and Cat Island), S. n. atactus (endemic to the...
Port Trustees. Of the NLB vessels, only the North Carr was crewed. The BahamaBank Lightship, date unknown North Carr lightship in 1988 Former Welsh lightships...
shoal of calcareous oolite, comparable to the ongoing process on the BahamaBanks. The area in which the Miami Rock Ridge formed is on the edge of the...
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