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The Bahamas

Made up of hundreds of different islands, the Bahamas also constitute one of the most prosperous nations in the Caribbean, their economy heavily based on tourism to visit the pleasant tropical Savannah of the islands.   Although these islands were the site of Christopher Columbus’ landing in the New World, the Bahamas were primarily colonized by the English in the 17th century, becoming known as a haven for pirates, including the infamous Blackbeard and the masked marauder called the Crimson Corsair, a pirate who preyed upon other pirates, making in unclear if he was friend or foe to the cause of law and order on the high seas.   Following the defeat of the British at Yorktown in the American Revolution, the Bahamas became a haven to many British loyalists, who relocated there with their African slaves to set up plantations. When Britain outlawed slavery in 1830, the islands became a haven for African slaves, as any who reached their shores were considered free, and American slave ships that made port in the Bahamas could lose their cargo altogether.   The Afro-Caribbean mystical tradition of Obeah is still found in Bermuda, although its practice is technically forbidden by law. It remains a covert folk practice, often viewed with superstitious concern.   The present day Bahamas have a population that is some 90 percent of African descent, with most of the remaining portion of European (largely English) ancestry. It remains a part of the Commonwealth of Nations, acknowledging the monarch of England as head of state, but has its own Parliament and Prime Minister.  

THE BIMINI ROAD

One famous feature of the Bahamas is the so-called “Bimini Road,” a roughly half-mile of limestone-based beach-rock blocks lying on the bottom of the ocean, extending from North Bimini Island, the western-most area of the Bahamas, and the closest to the United States. For decades, experts have debated whether the Bimini Road is a natural or artificial phenomenon and, if the latter, who constructed it, and when.   On Earth-Prime, the Bimini Road is an archaeological remnant of the ancient Atlantean, and marks part of a series of Atlantean outposts in the Caribbean within the Bermuda Triangle, the dimensional nexus surrounding Utopia Isle.

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