Lucayan Archipelago

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archipelago geographical region

The Lucayan Archipelago is a chain of islands in the Atlantic Ocean that includes the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, lying just north of the Caribbean Sea.

Aliases (1)

Bahamas archipelago ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	archipelago → geographical region →
borderedBy	Cuba → Florida → Hispaniola →
hasClimate	subtropical → tropical →
hasColonialHistoryWith	Spain → United Kingdom →
hasDependentTerritory	Turks and Caicos Islands →
hasEconomicActivity	fishing → tourism →
hasEthnicGroup	Afro-Caribbean people → European descendants →
hasFeature	cays → coral reefs → low-lying islands →
hasHighestPoliticalEntity	Commonwealth of the Bahamas →
hasHistoricalInhabitants	Lucayan people →
hasHistoricalLanguage	Lucayan language →
hasLanguage	English →
hasMajorIslandGroup	Commonwealth of the Bahamas → Turks and Caicos Islands →
hasMarineEcoregion	Tropical Northwestern Atlantic →
hasPrimaryLanguageFamily	Indo-European languages →
hasRegionalOrganizationMembershipViaConstituents	CARICOM → Caribbean Community →
hasReligion	Christianity →
hasSea	Atlantic Ocean →
hasTimeZone	UTC−05:00 →
includes	Bahamas → Turks and Caicos Islands →
isSubdivisionOf	West Indies →
isVulnerableTo	hurricanes → sea level rise →
liesEastOf	Florida →
liesNorthOf	Cuba → Hispaniola →
locatedIn	Atlantic Ocean → North Atlantic Ocean → Northern Hemisphere → Western Hemisphere →
locatedNorthOf	Caribbean Sea →
namedAfter	Lucayan people →
observesDaylightSavingTime	yes →
partOf	West Indies →
sovereigntyIncludes	Bahamas → United Kingdom →
wasFirstContactedBy	Christopher Columbus →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bahamas → Grand Turk Island → Providenciales → South Caicos →	partOf
Eleuthera → Grand Bahama → North Caicos →	locatedIn
Caribbean islands → West Indies →	hasPart
Bimini → Bimini ("Bahamas archipelago") →	partOfArchipelago
Caribbean →	hasSubregion
Lesser Antilles and Lucayan Archipelago →	includes
New Providence →	locatedInRegion
Cockburn Town →	region