Lucayan Archipelago

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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.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Lucayan Archipelago canonical 56
Bahamas archipelago 16
Bahamian archipelago 1

How this entity was disambiguated

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 Bahamas
surface form: Commonwealth of the Bahamas
hasHistoricalInhabitants Taíno
surface form: Lucayan people
hasHistoricalLanguage Ciboney language
surface form: Lucayan language
hasLanguage English
hasMajorIslandGroup Bahamas
surface form: Commonwealth of the Bahamas

Turks and Caicos Islands
hasMarineEcoregion Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
hasPrimaryLanguageFamily Indo-European languages
hasRegionalOrganizationMembershipViaConstituents Caribbean Community
surface form: 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
Atlantic Ocean
surface form: North Atlantic Ocean

Northern Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
locatedNorthOf Caribbean Sea
namedAfter Taíno
surface form: Lucayan people
observesDaylightSavingTime yes
partOf West Indies
sovereigntyIncludes Bahamas
United Kingdom
wasFirstContactedBy Christopher Columbus

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Referenced by (75)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Blue Hills locatedInArchipelago Lucayan Archipelago
Five Cays locatedInArchipelago Lucayan Archipelago
Sapodilla Bay Beach isPartOf Lucayan Archipelago
Grand Turk District locatedIn Lucayan Archipelago
North Creek locatedInArchipelago Lucayan Archipelago
Grand Turk Lighthouse region Lucayan Archipelago
Lorimers locatedInArchipelago Lucayan Archipelago
East Caicos locatedIn Lucayan Archipelago
Grand Turk partOf Lucayan Archipelago
Bambarra Beach locatedIn Lucayan Archipelago
Mudjin Harbour Beach locatedIn Lucayan Archipelago
Kew locatedInArchipelago Lucayan Archipelago
Whitby locatedIn Lucayan Archipelago
Parrot Cay locatedIn Lucayan Archipelago
Balfour Town locatedInArchipelago Lucayan Archipelago
Salt Cay Airport isInArchipelago Lucayan Archipelago
Sandy Point partOf Lucayan Archipelago
Turks Islands belongsToIslandChain Lucayan Archipelago
western Bahamas partOf Lucayan Archipelago
this entity surface form: Bahamas archipelago
Ocean Cay locatedIn Lucayan Archipelago
Alice Town locatedIn Lucayan Archipelago
this entity surface form: Bahamas archipelago
South Cat Cay archipelago Lucayan Archipelago
South Cat Cay archipelago Lucayan Archipelago
this entity surface form: Bahamas archipelago
Bahamas (in a broader geographic sense, sometimes grouped with the Antilles) locatedIn Lucayan Archipelago
subject surface form: Bahamas